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Impeachment Non-Watch
Steyn On-line ^ | January 25, 2020 | Mark Steyn

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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; impeachment; marksteyn

1 posted on 01/25/2020 6:11:19 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

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.


2 posted on 01/25/2020 6:17:55 AM PST by goodolemr
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To: goodolemr

I’m considering leaving the TV on during Trump’s 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 Trump’s team.


3 posted on 01/25/2020 6:21:40 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Twotone

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.


4 posted on 01/25/2020 6:33:02 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: wastoute

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.


5 posted on 01/25/2020 6:37:15 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Twotone
"And now this about Impeachment Day... what day is it? No, the Impeachement, what day is this. People do too care. What do you mean I'm a fool. Hey, I'm on the air. No I'm not too stupid to be on the air. What day is it? No, I know it's Saturday. What's the day of the ongoing Impeachment. Well call upstairs... We'll return to this story in a few minutes...."

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6 posted on 01/25/2020 11:46:01 AM PST by DoughtyOne (It's a New Year, and time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll <hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Twotone

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.


7 posted on 01/25/2020 6:21:17 PM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: Twotone
And, for the electoral scorecard, as two decades ago, the demographic sliver that matters may be a non-noisy portion of the citizenry once again outraged by the amorality, corruption, narcissism and political-class entitlement - the last of which has been extended from a lifetime right to fellatio to a lifetime right to policies and personnel.

I shall non-watch on.

8 posted on 01/26/2020 7:32:07 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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