Posted on 01/25/2020 6:11:19 AM PST by Twotone
As I wrote in The Spectator way back on February 13th 1999:
At the time of writing, I do not know the verdict of the impeachment trial. But undoubtedly, by the time you read this, William Jefferson Clinton will have been convicted and removed by, oh, at least 83 out of 100 Senators.
Okay, maybe not.
So instead, in this brief interlude between the end of the President's first impeachment trial and the start of his second - over the so-called 'Jane Doe #5', the contract killing of Kathleen Willey's cat, or whatever else comes along - let me make another prediction: if Al Gore isn't president before November 2000, he won't be afterwards.
Actually, I made that prediction in these pages last summer, but now that the Vice-President is locking up the Democratic nomination it bears repeating: the woodman is on a one-way ticket to Loserville.
Technically, "November 2000" should have been January 2001. But, as longtime readers know, I'm no fan of the preposterous anachronistic three-month "transfer of power" - which in its most recent iteration was used (from day one) to subvert the incoming administration, cover the tracks of a banana-republic surveillance operation against the outgoing regime's political opponents and reverse-engineer it into a so-called "Russia investigation" that set us on course for the impeachment trial we're currently watching.
Or, in my case, not watching.
Other than that, my prediction of February 1999/Summer 1998 turned out to be correct.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
The point in the column made about Dem voters being more interested in far left issues, such as abortion, open borders, etc. makes sense. And even if you do hate Trump, this stuff about Ukraine is not the reason they dislike Trump anyway.
Im considering leaving the TV on during Trumps turn but I doubt I would actually watch it. Just to drive the Rats nuts. It would be interesting if viewership doubled or tripled for Trumps team.
Clinton remained President and so will Trump.
Impeachment has never resulted in the removal of an elected American President from office.
And you can take it to the bank.
Yep - I have 2 TVs - one will be tuned to the Trump team - the other may be on the Golf channel....but I’ll watch the “trial” periodically.
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Hey, what's going on? We just lost 750,000 listeners. Even my mom called up to complain...
One of my biggest fears surrounding this ‘impeachment’ effort, is exactly what Steyn described. The reduction of impeachment to essentially a no-confidence vote. There is a real danger in this to the stability of our form of government.
I shall non-watch on.
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