Impeachment Will Be Good for Trump
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Since Trump's election, the dream uniting all Democrats is to impeach the president. Having won the House and with a mere majority necessary to initiate Articles of Impeachment, that dream will finally come true – never mind that chances of conviction in the Senate are near nil, with 67 votes required to sustain and Republicans still in the majority. They will impeach because, as with the scorpion, it's their nature.
It doesn't matter that after more than two years of investigation, President Trump has not been found to have committed any crime. Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding; it is a political proceeding, and in the "People's House," the majority decides what constitutes "High Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Articles of Impeachment will soon pass in the House because Democrats will want the Senate trial to play out during the 2020 presidential election.
Democrats are prone to overreach. When Obama was elected with a majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, they ran amok. Convinced they would never lose again, their rule was uncompromising.
Forgetting that nothing lasts forever, and the aphorism stating that if something can't go on forever, it will eventually end, Obamacare was rammed through Congress using legislative trickery and claims of saving money and keeping doctors and health plans.
Democrats are prone to overreach. When Obama was elected with a majority in the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, they ran amok. Convinced they would never lose again, their rule was uncompromising.
Forgetting that nothing lasts forever, and the aphorism stating that if something can't go on forever, it will eventually end, Obamacare was rammed through Congress using legislative trickery and claims of saving money and keeping doctors and health plans.
Democrats also passed Dodd-Frank financial legislation, which eliminated low-interest credit cards and prevented people and small businesses from getting loans and mortgages.
Obama and the Democrats spent eight years throttling industry and the economy with regulatory zeal. Obama's reliance on executive orders to control all aspects of citizens' business and personal lives and the weaponization of federal law enforcement; intelligence agencies; and administrative agencies such as the FBI, DOJ, EPA, and IRS to pursue political opponents and extra-legislatively enact law slowly turned the voters against the Democrats. Their overreach cost Obama and Democrats the House and their super-majority in the Senate. In 2013, Senate majority leader Harry Reid triggered the "nuclear option" killing the filibuster (or cloture) rule, whereby three-fifths of the Senate or 60 members were necessary to advance judicial nominees – he made an exception for Supreme Court nominations, which retained the 60-vote threshold.
Reid did this because he could. He was confident that with demographic changes, Democrats would never again be in the minority. Therefore, his rule changes would never come back to haunt him or his party.
Reid was wrong. Democrats lost the Senate in 2014, ushering in the Mitch McConnell era.
Reid's implementation of the "nuclear option," more than anything else, allowed the "radical transformation" of the Supreme Court. When Justice Antonin Scalia died, Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace him. But with Republicans controlling the Senate and the rules, his nomination was ignored. When Trump became president, he instead nominated Neil Gorsuch, and, with Reid's precedent, McConnell dropped the hammer, dispensing with the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations as well. Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both strict constructionists with lifetime tenure, changed the balance of the court in favor of conservatives. With Ruth Bader Ginsburg in poor health, there's a good chance the president will soon get to nominate his third Supreme Court justice. Along with scores of conservative federal judges already seated and those yet to be seated, Reid's conceit may cost Democrats the federal courts for a generation.
It's all action and reaction; the Democrats overreached, with Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, over-regulation, and rule changes. Americans reacted by voting Democrats out.
The Democrats, during the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency, lost nine Senate seats, 62 House seats, 12 governorships, and almost a thousand seats in state legislatures.
Now having regained the House, they will overreach exactly as they did before: they will impeach Trump. With Democrats moving farther left each day and the ascendency of socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and hard leftists Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris vying for the party's 2020 nomination, they have no choice.
Recent developments in the Trump investigation have shown that what was portrayed as a stolen election was really a setup by the Obama administration and the media to deny Americans their vote and seat the inevitable Hillary Clinton.
A recent New York Times piece admitted that the FBI opened multiple investigations on Donald Trump without evidence of a crime. Trump administration members were lured into perjury traps, others surveilled. This allowed surveillance of the president through the "2-hop rule." Spy on target A, and they can spy on person B, who communicates with A, and person C, who communicates with B – all this while maintaining the pretense that they are investigating only A.
It is said that Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose improper appointment also started an investigation in search of a crime, will soon release his report and that it will be less than revelatory. This will put the onus on congressional Democrats to rid the nation of the meddlesome orange tweeter.
Americans like fair play and understand that government is not supposed to scour a man's life to find a crime and that a crime must always precede an investigation.
Before Republicans impeached Bill Clinton, his approval was in the 40s. After, his approval went up over 50% and never declined as the Republicans lost seats. The harder they pressed, the more popular Clinton became. The same can be expected with Trump.
Most salient is that the Democrats are blinded by hatred of Trump, making them reckless and ignorant to the vast power the president retains.
Trump will, à la Muhammad Ali, "rope-a-dope" the Democrats during Articles of Impeachment arguments in the House, lying back, presenting little counter-argument – perhaps sporadically tweeting something incendiary to make Democrats angry and off balance, while playing them and the media for maximum effect with an occasional sucker-punch.
No businessman survives in New York City without being shrewd and ruthless, and, knowing he can't win in the House, Trump will astutely save himself for the later rounds.
The Senate – that's where he will make his move...
For Trump, the Senate trial is a "kill zone." This is a zone set up to lure the enemy into a specific area, where, upon entry, he is subjected to direct and overlapping fire of such intensity, coverage, and effectiveness that it is impossible to survive.
The president cannot be criminally indicted because with effective prosecutors and ham sandwiches, every president would be indicted. He must be impeached. The House decides what is impeachable.
Yet the president has the ultimate clearance. He decides what is secret and what is not – his decisions are not reviewable. Trump can classify or declassify at will.
The Deep State has hidden its malfeasance through redaction. These are the blacked out portions of documents available to the public.
Obviously, many redactions contain information hidden because it is exculpatory; embarrassing to the FBI, DOJ, CIA, et al. and to Obama and his administration's former members; or covering up criminal activity.
Trump is a master negotiator. Negotiating is understanding opponents' motivations and desires, limning their fears, pushing where they are weak and giving where they are strong. It's about getting the most you can get while giving up the least. It is making a deal; it is judgment and nuance; it is understanding. And yes, it is an art.
With every revelation during the Senate trial, Trump will selectively release exonerating information embarrassing to Democrats. Until now, he has been extremely cautious. Trump is a fighter, and this is his moment. He is not going to allow his impeachment for the sake of classified information.
Impeachment will fail, and Trump will get stronger as he approaches re-election. Once again, the Democrats' arrogance will cost them dearly.
This is Trump's game. To paraphrase Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quoting Watchmen, "Trump is not locked up in here with them. They're locked up in here with him."
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“The same can be expected with Trump.
Most salient is that the Democrats are blinded by hatred of Trump, making them reckless and ignorant to the vast power the president retains.
Trump will, à la Muhammad Ali, "rope-a-dope" the Democrats during Articles of Impeachment arguments in the House, lying back, presenting little counter-argument – perhaps sporadically tweeting something incendiary to make Democrats angry and off balance, while playing them and the media for maximum effect with an occasional sucker-punch.
No businessman survives in New York City without being shrewd and ruthless, and, knowing he can't win in the House, Trump will astutely save himself for the later rounds.
The Senate – that's where he will make his move...
For Trump, the Senate trial is a "kill zone." This is a zone set up to lure the enemy into a specific area, where, upon entry, he is subjected to direct and overlapping fire of such intensity, coverage, and effectiveness that it is impossible to survive.
The president cannot be criminally indicted because with effective prosecutors and ham sandwiches, every president would be indicted. He must be impeached. The House decides what is impeachable.
Yet the president has the ultimate clearance. He decides what is secret and what is not – his decisions are not reviewable. Trump can classify or declassify at will.
The Deep State has hidden its malfeasance through redaction. These are the blacked out portions of documents available to the public.
Obviously, many redactions contain information hidden because it is exculpatory; embarrassing to the FBI, DOJ, CIA, et al. and to Obama and his administration's former members; or covering up criminal activity.
Trump is a master negotiator. Negotiating is understanding opponents' motivations and desires, limning their fears, pushing where they are weak and giving where they are strong. It's about getting the most you can get while giving up the least. It is making a deal; it is judgment and nuance; it is understanding. And yes, it is an art.
With every revelation during the Senate trial, Trump will selectively release exonerating information embarrassing to Democrats.”
Dear Keep America Great,
Where do you see this all ending ?
I believe the more power this man has the more power this man desires.
I'm often reminded of the pied piper story when I see and think of trump. That's unsettling to me.
I see him getting impeached over nothing and acquitted by the Senate and then re elected.
That is certainly possible for HIM. Personally Judging for this mans past I know HE will be fine pretty much no matter what. I was actually wondering much more about the nation and us.
Where do you think the nation is headed is more my question.
Agan personally I see us eventually heading down hill not up in many ways, yep the rich very well may just keep getting richer and dong fine but what about the middle class and the poor.
From what I've seen trump is much more concerned about upper class and businesses making their tax cuts permanent and the rest temporary, so how does trumps world all work out for the nation as a whole ?
Personally I dont see it ending up much different from the past. a two tier system of existence one for the haves one for the have nots with a great divide between the two.
To top that off we may be finding ourselves alone much more because of his international wants and means of getting what he wants, when we need others in the future they now may be harder to find.
Thankful for myself I've always been glad of when I was born, and I exspect that I won't depend on this earth much longer anyway.
Good luck to the rest..
Please stop the end of the US talk.
Trump will not be the end of us. We survived two of the most divisive POTUS ever in Bush Jr and Obama. We will survive Trump.
He hasn't done one thing that isn't within his power while in office. What are you exactly against? He has ended Obama's far reaching EO's on environmental regulations, the PPACCA, and immigration. EO's are temporary and most do not last past the president that enacted them. Or are you against him ending the Bush and Obama wars in Afghanistan, Syria, and hopefully Iraq? Anything that pisses off the hawks on both sides in good in my book.
Trump is more brash, overbearing, and strikes back personally when attacked (Which is far better than using the government against his political opponents- aka Obama). He doesn't come in the clean cut politically correct used car salesman that needs a teleprompter to remember his overused lines; nor is the bumbling Texan has a problem stringing together a sentence, and reminds everyone of a family member. Other than that he is no different than any other POTUS. None of them give a shit about us; all wanted to expand their power while in occupying the office; and all used the office to enrich themselves. (In Obama's case both while in it; and after leaving it).
I don't like Trump; and didn't vote for him or the wicked witch of the east. You want to worry about something; worry about our broken two party system that put forward two candidates like Trump and Hillary in the first place- knowing that one of the two would get elected. Then look at the far left loons coming forward to run against Trump this time around. Both sides know only a Democrat or Republican will get elected- no matter how bad of a candidate they are.
Looks like Chicken Little-ism is as rampant as TDS.
So we changed it to We instead of us ?
Open ideas, open forum, open minded ?
Open future
Indeed it does.
I think that Trump really does care about and has done more for the working and middle class than anyone else the last 30 years. The cuts in small business and corporate tax rates benefit all of us. More investment, more factories, more higher paying jobs, and more benefits. The Trump/GOP tax bill did target the rich to pay more with the capping of home mortgage interest deductions to 750k in value nationwide and limiting nationally the deductions on state income and local income/property taxes to 10k. One has to be pretty rich to have a bigger mortgage or owe more than $10,000 in state and local taxes. Notice that the second bill the New Democrat house considered was one to repeal these taxes on their rich donors.
Setting aside what I believe trumps ulterior motive is , I agree trump does care in some ways for the middle and lower class people. IMO: Though, mostly economically. While that is very important how it's done is as well, as well as a number of other factors like protecting the environment, consumer protection, education, medical care and a host of other things is also really important to be considered for not only the middle class but all of us. IMO: Moneys not much good if your air, water and land is polluted and everyone's dying of cancer. Like I said so much to consider, I know I would never want all the pressure to need to see and consider all the details of each under taking.
I really do believe contrary to what many would like to believe that president trump (like all presidents before and after ) do not have all the best answers for all the problems in the usa nor the world.
That's why the government was set up as it was to operate, Its not an easy way but it has gotten us this far. Many minds see what one may not.
As I've said before trump sees the problems but his first crack at a solution usually is pretty grand, over blown and therefore needs to be scaled back to reality.
MY opinion.
Thanks, have a nice evening
Exaggeration others concerns into "chicken Little-ism" is fairly common I've noticed as well.
Ridiculousness must be called out.
I agree.
When the ridiculousness half the time refers to alt-facts, exaggerates numbers , promises everything to everyone, insults, intimidates and threatens others all in order to get their own way, One is wise to recognise and call out the ridiculousness of it all.
You are probably right, but I don't think I've made any headway with Democrats.
It's hard to get thru the filters we all put up sometimes. You do pretty good, staying cool headed ourselves sure helps. Sometimes that's easier said than done though..lol
I just try to remember we're all different have different background, different wants, needs and desires and look at things form different perspectives. Most all of us really want whats best for the country, we just think that is something different sometimes including how to get there.
Come on democrats, bring it on! Impeach 45! Impeach 45! Take Trump to trial in the senate. Follow Ocasio-Cortez and Waters advice. We can’t wait!
You get part of what you wish but it ends with Trump in exile on Elba...
"Trump is the master negotiator." Apparently so. Not seen his taxes. His financial standings. His private meetings with Putin. Or much else. He does very well at permitting what is known, what is not known and why none of it applies to him.
Impeachment? On what grounds? Lying? Really? Sleazy payments from sleazy accounts to sleazier people are not grounds for impeachment. If it were, 99% of the congress would be 'bounced out' just on military appropriations and contracts alone. And that is a snowflake on an iceberg.
How many folks you know get to negotiate taxes?
Am surprised, no--not really--that you asked that question. When tax laws are written, people like us and our concerns are not included in the legislation.
No need to be surprised. You made a correlation between Trump being a negotiator and tried to tie that into his taxes you haven't seen.
Ask your reps to explain the tax laws you don't understand or have concerns about.
All Trump did was propose and sign a law passed by Congress.
And again you are incorrect. I made no correlation. Trump campaigned on being 'the negotiator.' Apparently you missed it.
Tax laws I do not understand? Yeah. Sure. BuBye
Really?
Your words.
Please do regale me with a tale of how I took your words out of context!
Maybe so, but we hired a president. IMO" Presidents are much more than just a negosiator. Too bad this man isn't.
yea,
but 973, out of a trillion or so, is sorta like Meatloaf
n
mashed potatoe's with Xtra jam, but two outta too many, ain't bad ass Mike dropped momentarily for a moment that gains momentum
until
mowing down all around,
cause Trummppyy is an irreconcilably indifference, yet different
oddities are fine at a fair, in the white house not so much. The man is like the wizard. whats real ?
all's not faring all to well in the lines of D'art is all fair N unbalanced on a beam
of Gym, or splintered like a wooden sunflower deseeded for dessert in th e desert reign forest hunting a gang wolf von Hellsingin da Blewz
ya done lost me....
lol
Awww I need an interpreter...
"We hired a president." ? ?
You sure?
wy the heell Y
he hasn't been fired by now,
is the fckn puzzlin part, that iz farr more concerning than the buutered up over cooked carrot
teen idol pageant
contestant his presence in their damn locker room
groomer
hasn't been seen by all, as the ass clown he's always been, and then some !
This guy can't be evacuated quick enough
Up is down , down is up, apples are oranges, Hell I dont know anymore ....
he hasn't been fired by now,
is the fckn puzzlin part,
I think it's his wonderful use of the english language.
LOL
i wouldnt know
don't speak english, lessen i'm swimmin with a bo legged women who plays pool,
n
knows how to French fry my English toast filled muffin top
of the mour inn
till yer done mournin this after noon mournin is best done by mournin in the eveninpost n railin bout railings n
covered tracts of shunned
innocense is best
when violated
is the guilty
splittin hair Jury that needss conditioning by ba conditioner
LOL, That may not near as much of a problem as ya might think, sometimes he doesn't seem to know what english words mean anyway.
Remember not long ago the networks did kinda of a public announcement segment possibly trying to help one of their most powerful viewers learn the different meanings of the two words apples verses oranges ?
Speaking english isn't really much of a disadvantage to understanding trump really anyway, he'll say whatever he wants to ta get whatever he wants, Just watch what he does. that's reality.
What does Trump and his supporters have in common with the ancient Egyptians? They both rely on denial for their survival...
What is the difference between Trump and Nero? Nero played the fiddle...
what is the difference between Trump and a
Putin inn Place Tool who's been played for the ass whole kit n Ka booddle
he'as always bin, stored in storage, cause it saves time out of daylight, called
saves time out of daylight, usually done at night
accept
when done in the day