The Divine Right of Democrats to Drool
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Many longtime liberals find themselves bewildered at the continued antics of the Democrats at a time when they have a real, albeit small, window of opportunity to demonstrate that they have some acquaintance with the art of responsible governance. Thoughtful people like law professors Jonathan Turley and Alan Dershowitz, who understand that the nation’s polity will be far healthier if both major parties approach real issues seriously, are unable to understand why so few Democrats see that the perpetuation of puerile nihilism driven by unabated hatred of President Trump will end in disaster. Turley puts it thus :
In this age of rage, voters seem to have no patience, let alone need, for leaders speaking of abstract principles. They want immediate unequivocal action.… For Democrats, that all consuming purpose has led to the abandonment of core unifying values, including many that first drew me to the Democratic Party.
The explanation for this loss of the party’s soul to an unquenchable and wholly emotional desire to destroy Trump is captured in a one-sentence observation by Cicero with which Turley is certainly familiar: “Those who do not know history will forever remain children.” There is very little chance that the kindergartners of the Democratic resistance would recognize Turley’s allusion to the fabled “Days of Rage.” Nor do they grasp that their collective tantrum and lurch to the left is reminiscent of that which eventually produced the suicidal Democratic nomination of George McGovern and President Nixon’s 1972 landslide.
Thus, like so many angry children, nothing less than Donald Trump’s head on a platter will mollify them. It doesn’t matter to this bumptious brood that someone has to produce at least a plausible case proving his guilt of the “crimes and misdemeanors” without which no majority in the House of Representatives will try to impeach the President. This is what Alan Dershowitz, who leans farther to the left than Turley, has been trying to tell anyone who will listen, but that’s an ever shrinking audience in the media. Most want to hear that Trump is going down. In a recent discussion with Joe Concha for the Hill , he said :
I used to be, for example, on CNN more often than on Fox. I was a regular, not paid, but just a person who was on all the time debating with Toobin, debating with others…. I haven’t been on CNN, now, since the summer, and Fox calls me all the time.… I’d love to be available to people who watch all channels.”
But Dershowitz is in the unfortunate habit of dealing in realities not well suited for les enfants en colère . They want Trump impeached pursuant to the meandering Mueller investigation. Unfortunately for them, that farce is unlikely to do the job or it would have been leaked to the media by now. What about Flynn? What about the great Cohen bust? The Flynn plea was obviously a piece of FBI legerdemain whereby they entrapped him using a law designed to manufacture crimes rather than detect them and there’s nothing there than can hurt Trump. As to Cohen, this is what Dershowitz has been trying to explain :
The president doesn’t break the law if, as a candidate, he contributes to his own campaign. So if he gave $1 million to two women as hush money, there would be no crime.… So it is a catch-22 for the prosecution. If they claim that the president authorized him to do it or directed him to do it, it’s not a crime for anybody.
But impeachment is, of course, a political rather than legal process. And the Democrats know their querulous constituents are going to tear the romper room to pieces if they don’t see some action soon after Nancy Pelosi takes the Speaker’s gavel from Paul Ryan’s grateful hands in January. She and various accomplices on the committees hope to keep them sedated by creating as much sound and fury as they can manage with endless investigations of Trump personally as well as his administration. The media is reporting that the Democrats are, for the first time ever, actually creating a hiring boom — for staffers and lawyers :
House committees gearing up to investigate President Trump are experiencing a boom in applications. Some have posted job applications like one that CNN discovered for the Oversight Committee that outwardly advertised a need for staffers with executive branch investigative counsel.
Among other things, the Democrats will try to pry into the President’s income taxes and personal business dealings. Trump’s taxes in particular have been a longstanding and morbid obsession for these people. Consequently, instead of moving forward with constructive legislation that will benefit the voters, the Democrats will abuse all the power that comes with their new House majority for purposes of dumpster diving in the hope of coming up with something they can use as a pretext to impeach Trump. In order to achieve this dubious goal, they will exhume a long-dormant statute. As Kansas Congressman Ron Estes writes :
Democrats hope to use an arcane 100-year-old law that allows Congress to inspect anyone’s tax returns as justification for essentially breaking into the IRS and releasing the president’s tax returns to the public without his permission. Such a move would… set a dangerous and chilling precedent.
It may, on the other hand, prevent their temperamental constituents from breaking their toys. They know they can’t disappoint these little darlings or there will be a lot of spinning heads and projectile vomit. If the Democrats accomplish nothing during the next two years beyond a protracted and almost certainly doomed attempt to remove a duly elected President — and that is how at least half the voters see him — they will have revealed to their own voters that they can’t deliver on impeachment while once again demonstrating to the rest of us that they are incapable of governing responsibly. That won’t sell well in 2020.
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“If the Democrats accomplish nothing during the next two years beyond a protracted and almost certainly doomed attempt to remove a duly elected President — and that is how at least half the voters see him — they will have revealed to their own voters that they can’t deliver on impeachment while once again demonstrating to the rest of us that they are incapable of governing responsibly.”
I’d like to thank Real Clear Politics for featuring this fine article in their contrasting articles on their site today.
They will try to remove him. They will impeach and the US Senate will not convict. The Presidents term will be tarnished, but the consequences will be significant for democrats. They will most likely forfeit the House in the next election and the GOP will likely gain a super majority in the Senate. That will mean real reform legislation will take place. So let them keep on with their hate motivated coup.
That’s about the way it is. A hate filled attempted coup against the constitutional results of the 2016 election.
Yes, the drool is on.
Doesn't matter. "Grab em' by the pussy" has proven to be the conservatives winning strategy. "I like beer" and "Do you black out" has proven to be the finest points of success and the conservatives are riding that wave to its conclusion. Putin is laughing. The usefulness of the Trump is coming to its predetermined inglorious end.
Trump will be our President for a little over six more years. We will not back down in any way and will force the other side to literally ruin the whole country to get rid of him over every lawful and peaceful measure that exists to preserve him in office. We will defend him legally to the extent that the resistance can only remove Trump by means outside of the constitution, that we will stay within in protecting him in the office. Maybe they will find a reasonable moderate and behave responsible The next two years and actually win an election within the constitution but I doubt that will happen.
Happy New Year and a Merry Christmas...………..and also my sincere heartfelt thanks for proving that conservatism has succeeded in debasing the American Politic to the grandeur of a simple "Grab em' by the Pussy." This great nation knows no bounds.
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We found our bounds by keeping that witch Hillary out of the Presidency. Trump saved America from her evil clutches. Happy New Year to you all too.
Hillary's a witch too?? Ok, we will look into this allegation when we get a chance, but our witch hunters have been working overtime with other cases all last year and this year looks quite busy too!
No, she isn't. She hasn't paid her Coven dues in years so we took her broom away
She tried to start her own coven.
I knew it wouldn't work out well.
It replaced "I did not have sex with that woman" and the car somehowwent off the bridge.
Bill Clinton got a blowjob too, don't forget about the blowjob!!
"All the way back"? What Ted did at Chappaquiddick happened less than 50 years ago. It's not every day that a sitting US senator gets away with murder.
Most likely a double murder....
Very possible.
I can’t imagine any other motivation for him to act the way he did regarding her and perhaps the car ending up in the water in the 1st place was no accident
He got more than a blowjob.
Wow.....got any evidence for that accusation or you just going with pure speculation?
I bet she doesn't have an answer for that
A possibility is neither an accusation nor a speculation.
Go peddle that bullshit to somebody who's buying. Your "possiblity" is mere speculation because you have no proof
I never stated that I had proof, which is why I used the word possible. Get it now?
phhffffttttt......
Who passed it on to ........
Well Bill did once say that Hillary got more than he did....
If I posted an article like this it would have been shut down immediately.
But oh no, no bias here.
Your side pushes anti Trump and anti Republican articles all the time. You are free to post the opposing article from Real Clear Politics that was paired with this one. But you would rather have content control than combatting free speech with more speech, you know, the American way.
You could have seeded this: Or this: These articles sandwiched the one I seeded and I think that anyone here can handle anything that Real Clear Politics finds fit to feature on both sides. They aren’t snowflakes and neither are we.
Awe you poor thing. Are all them left leaning mods picking on you?
They are most of them that alright.
I am not a poor thing, I feel sorry that you see me as such. I fought hard for your right to denigrate me, and put me down, so I will just say, "you're welcome", and move on. I wish you well and my the shining light of success shine upon you and yours.
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The Thought Police won't allow Dershowitz to be a liberal anymore because he isn't frantically pulling his hair out over Trump like the rest of them.
True. One must be 100% resistance to be considered a democrat in good standing anymore.
Happy New Year everyone!
Almost every comment on this seed contains a sweeping generalization, at least by the standards that are used here to remove comments as such.
The "sweeping generalization" reason for censorship should be ended. It allows uneven and inherently unfair censorship based on the dubious use of "flagging". It also encourages more visible activity by the moderators.
John, as shocking as it may seem, on this issue, you and I are in 100% full agreement. It is truly difficult for one to speak their mind if a persons opinion on a given topic is constantly censored 🤬.
trump has done that on his own, yet somehow that is conveniently looked over by republicans.
This so called article is nothing but a weak attempt at turning a blind eye on what the presidency has become and trying to put blame on the other side of the lisle.
Major fail.