Autopsy of an Impeachment
The Dispatch,
by
Daniel Vaughn
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
3/8/2020 7:38:02 AM
Now that the politics have settled, it’s the right time to return to impeachment, examine it, and learn why it failed. It was only the third such trial in our history. In one of its final reports, the New York Times, while calling the acquittal of Trump a “resounding victory” for the president, added, “both sides agreed that the final judgment on Mr. Trump will be rendered by voters when they cast ballots in just nine months.” Conventional wisdom holds that Senate Republicans were predetermined to acquit Trump of any charges. While there’s a hint of truth to this conventional wisdom, it’s not the entire story. Impeachments, Staff note. *
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/8/2020 8:20:29 AM (No. 340139)
#1's right. There were no "high crimes or misdemeanors."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 3/8/2020 8:53:53 AM (No. 340157)
Well, there's five minutes I'll never get back.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/8/2020 8:58:59 AM (No. 340165)
All the author proved to me, is that political hacks are political hacks and unworthy of being servants of the People. He focused entirely on the political consequences without ever touching on the evidence, or its origins, because in the end, impeachment could have been because of Trump eating at McDonalds, or farting in public.
It's a matter of process, not crimes or evidence.
I don't agree. Unfortunately, our only recourse is to make the fraudulent hucksters pay at the ballot box.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 3/8/2020 9:00:31 AM (No. 340167)
"Conventional wisdom holds that Senate Republicans were predetermined to acquit Trump of any charges."
Conventional wisdom holds that house democrats were predetermined to impeach Trump of any charges.
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That's one theory rooted in the usual model of American two-party politics. Here's another:
Donald. J. Trump was a Republican candidate outside the circle of the UNIPARTY, and untrustworthy. From early on he looked like an easily defeatable celebrity blowhard for the nomination in '16. The Establishment hated him; he was the wrong sort. Unfortunately, the Establishment approved line-up was weak stuff, starting with Bush scion JEB!. Trump spoke in terms and on topics that were forbidden, and the people responded. Control was escaping the Establishment and gave rise to the "NeverTrumpers".
The UNIPARTY had Hillary as its "firewall". She couldn't lose, so popular was she, and against this barbarian. She got sick and lazy, and Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States. The UNIPARTY scrambled. Its DEMe Division already had a pile of dirt, it was time to begin the public lynching using its Flying Monkey Brigade: The "Deep State". The Deep State was impervious to outsider Trump, who had no cotillion of followers to take control before the status quo could harden after the new administration took office.
The question was how to get rid of this bum. Impeachment was off the table because the Republicans had majorities in both chambers of Congress. So, instead it became time for an unceasing media blitz while Speaker Ryan resigned his position without leaving or challenge, and led the GOPe majority to an electoral defeat by forfeit, while the GOPe held the Senate by a hair. Impeachment was now on the table...
The Dem-majority House was to accomplish two things: Gather and publicize "evidence" to drive down Trump's numbers to make a bi-partisan vote possible; and thoroughly trash him and his family in the process. It failed, in part because The Squad and other radicals got loudly involved and leadership couldn't shut them up. Then the bungled investigations, including the basement meetings, and the Biden imbroglio that threatened to expose the whole bi-partisan scam. So, two quickie articles were passed and sent over...delayed to let the public turn on Trump, to drop his rising popularity into the 30s at least. As noted, election season was coming fast.
The numbers never dropped to a point the GOPe Senate could even think about conviction. President Trump survived, thrived as a hero. The Senate proved reliably "Republican" in forthright support of Our President. A GOPe primary challenge by a well-known Republican senator never materialized. And the Dems took it on the chin.
So, the next step to remove Donald J. Trump from office comes...is coronavirus hysteria and the collapse of the stock market part of the game? Of just coincidence? Will a third-party "moderate Republican" challenger emerge as an alternative to Trump- Biden/Sanders? Will Hilary come out of the woodwork re-energized as the Dem's saving lady? Anything can happen...Stand by for the next chapter.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JrSample 3/8/2020 10:56:06 AM (No. 340280)
The revelations about Biden coming out of the impeachment drama nearly sank the Biden campaign. It resulted in nonstop playing of the recording of Biden bragging to all of his CFR buddies about doing almost exactly what they were accusing Trump of doing, withholding taxpayer funded foregin aid to solicit a favor. In Biden's case, despite all the denials, there was the fact that his whoremonger cokehead son was working for a crooked Ukraninan energy company at the same time it was profiting from US foreign aid being dispensed and controlled by "point-man" Biden. This took more of a political toll on Biden than it did on Trump. Support for Biden plummeted as a result of it. Notice how that with the Presidential primaries in full swing the Democrats and the press have stopped talking about it as if it never happened.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/8/2020 11:11:32 AM (No. 340301)
False charges made up of blatant lies by incredibly stupid people. How could that fail?
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