Posted on 11/27/2019 3:42:49 AM PST by Kaslin
The Democrats’ tireless effort to remove President Trump from office via impeachment will fail. That much, along with death and taxes, is certain. There is no longer a question as to whether the Democrats will lose in their quest to upend 2016, the only remaining unknowns are where, when, and how badly. And, of course, who will take the blame. If the buzz around Washington is to be believed, it’s Adam Schiff.
The Democrats have their choice as to where they will fail, which, in large part, can help determine the extent of the self-inflicted damage their party will ultimately suffer. They can lose in the House by failing to garner enough votes from their own caucus to secure impeachment, or, if they so choose, they can lose in the Senate on a much larger and more damning stage. Either way, they lose.
Following over a month of both closed-door and public testimony, Democrats have failed to move public perception in their direction. Polls by FiveThirtyEight show support for impeachment consistently dropping since the beginning of the inquiry, while Marquette University Law School polling shows a drop for impeachment in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin. Impeachment is failing because the Democrats’ message simply does not resonate with the public. Despite an ever-shifting narrative, driven by focus groups that prefer “Bribery” over “Quid pro quo”, Democrats have failed to sell their bag of goods to a public whose support they need if their removal fantasies are to remain viable. If the Democrats were unable to sway public opinion with hearings in the House, where they controlled process, witnesses, and optics, their odds of doing so in a Senate trial, where they control none of the above, become insurmountable.
Were the Democrats to lose now in the House, that is to say, should Speaker Pelosi fail to muster the 218 votes needed to impeach the president, that would be a tremendous failure. After all, the Democrats have a 233-Member caucus. Failing to secure, among her own Members, enough votes, following all of the grandstanding, posturing, and promising of the past two months, would be devastating. Surely the impeachment frenzied base would push back. Independents would question the process and motivations. Republicans, particularly President Trump, would taunt the speaker for her failure. It would be a public relations and messaging nightmare. Still, it wouldn’t be nearly as bad as a Senate trial would surely be.
Should the Democrats convince enough of their vulnerable Members to risk their careers on impeachment, a bloodbath of a trial would ensue. A trial where Republicans could call witnesses, such as Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Adam Schiff, and the mysterious whistleblower, would be a disaster for Democrats. If the Democrat debates have provided anything other than a cheap laugh, it’s proof that Joe Biden does not hold up well under friendly questioning. Imagine him being asked, under oath, whether he knew his son was hired for protection purposes. Would Hunter Biden be able to deflect questions regarding his suspicious Ukrainian employment? How would Adam Schiff fair, as a fact witness, when he doesn’t have the gavel? Would he still deny knowledge of the whistleblower, knowing full well that the whistleblower would be called next?
A trial in the Senate would destroy the supposed Democrat frontrunner, all the while keeping six senators seeking the nomination on the sidelines. A Senate trial would expose the entire impeachment process as a hoax. A Senate trial would be a disaster, only entered into by a great fool, and Nancy Pelosi is no fool. The Democrats have a simple decision, lose badly in the House or catastrophically in the Senate. The only logical choice is the former, but we can still hope for the latter.
Finally, who is to take the blame for the inevitable impeachment implosion? When all of this great political theater comes to an end, someone will have to accept public responsibility. Someone will have to explain why the Democrats went so far with so little. If the Democrats choose to lose in the House, Speaker Pelosi can hardly blame the Republicans, she simply does not need their votes to get to 218 when she already has 233 of her own. If they decide to lose in the Senate, the curtain will be pulled back and at least 218 House Democrats will have to answer to their districts for what is revealed in the Senate trial. That probably explains why the whispers in D.C. now circle around different high-profile politician being in trouble.
Adam Schiff has, curiously, been the lone face of the Democrats’ impeachment endeavor. Others have spoken up and Pelosi has dutifully supported it, but Adam Schiff appears to be the one, duty bounded, to take the fall for this failure. Pelosi can’t blame Republicans, either in the House or in the Senate. She cannot now publicly state that there was no reason to go this far, she must support the mission and message. If she cannot blame Republicans, and she cannot blame the message, that leaves the messenger. The cause was just, Schiff simply failed to get it across the finish line. After three years of an impeachment drive, someone in Washington is in trouble. It’s just not the president.
Leftists are about to have their @$$e$ handed to them.
L8r
Portraying Adam Schiff as a victim?
“God bless Trump. They’re attacking us...and he’z standing in the gap taking all the blowz.”
Like the Prez said “ It’s not me their after it’s you. I just happen to be in the way” Thank the Lord that we are blessed with this Prez.
Nothing curious about it. This is his reason for being-----preening and pontificating for the cameras.
The self-serving Schiff is unwilling to share the spotlight. God knows how many others he elbowed out of the way.
It must drive them crazy that Trump will be noted as being able to stand in the likes of Reagan, Eisenhower, and the Founding Fathers.
The unelected "Interagency Combat and Counterintelligence Regiment"
Trump just interferes with their sleeper hold on our collective necks. He let us wake a bit.
I have maintained all along Pelosi never read the call transcript. The only version she knows is Schiff’s fictional version. If she ever read the transcript, she’d fire his worthless butt. It’s her own fault. Pelosi has fostered a congress that doesn’t read the legislation they pass.
No, not the victim. He will most likely be the fall guy that the DemocRATs sacrifice to save their own sorry butts. Let’s just wait and see how successful the rest of them are with diverting attention from their misdeeds by throwing Schiff-for-brains under the bus.
What?? Where, in this article, do you draw that conclusion or point?
Sacrificial? More like treasonous domestic enemy of the Republic!
and Nancy Pelosi is no fool.
That line keeps popping up, yet I have seen no evidence of that assertion.
This appears to be an article of faith among both left and right...and I reject it categorically. Twisting arms and making threats is thuggery even when a female does it. It doesn't require wit or skill or imagination. And if you have round-the-clock media protection (ie she's never seen out of uniform or makeup & hair) and your interviews and pressers are prescripted farce then you appear quite capable.
'The Squad' are a group of dimwitted loudmouthed harpies who, despite their own shortcomings, looked around one day and wondered why they were being told to bend a knee to Pelosi. So one day they didn't - and got their arms twisted.
Again, this isn't intelligence - it's intimidation. But intimidation doesn't build loyalty, only resentment.
Finally, if Pelosi were clever then:
a) She would have fielded one or more Dem candidates who had a prayer of winning
b) She would have assessed much earlier that Nadler & Schiff were the Laurel & Hardy of the House.
c) She would have known that old fashioned politics about legislation, grievance groups, etc. would have a better chance against Trump - not necessarily a good chance, but a better chance
d) Wouldn't have put all her eggs in one basket.
The standard reply to all this is 'Pelosi is trying to hold her rabid base off with a whip and a chair so she has to placate them.' I don't buy this for a minute. If they want Trump gone then she can tell them trust the process. If they just want blood then tough luck.
Sorry didn’t see yours - but obviously we agree.
Don’t forget Pelosi melt down at white house. She is emotionally invested.
So well said spot on the same could be said of the Clintons and Obamas
This is why I think Pelosi played this very well, politically. If this whole charade goes up in flames, the person who gets the blame is a white, bug-eyed, Jewish freak. There is no downside to that among the misfits and losers who make up the Democrat base.
63 Million of us are. lol
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