Impeachment is supposed to be a serious debate, a somber consideration, a process marked by deep analysis, solid reflection, big-picture thinking, and in the end, inclusive of the sort of grave decision-making that looks down the road to judge how it all might affect the republic. But Democrats have turned it into a laugh track.
After months and months of House impeachment charade, after years and years of leftist-pressed, Democratic Party pushed calls for impeachment, promises to impeach, insistence to impeach, impeach, impeach at all costs, wouldn't it be great, humorous, even, to see all that anti-Trump effort come to a grinding halt in the Senate?
Eric Holder penned a scathing piece in The Washington Post against today Attorney General William Barr, calling him, get this, hold the phone, grab a seat and take a breath -- "nakedly partisan." That's not pot calling kettle black. That's lousy, stinking, lying, spying, contemptuous partisan pitbull calling guy-doing-his-job black.
Now the impeachment articles have come forward and strangely enough, what's most glaring is not what they contain, but what's missing. What they contain is "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress." What's missing are the key, long promised, long accused offenses, quid pro quo and bribery.
Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2019 because -- well, because, she has a cadre of left-leaners who saw in her the necessary theater skills to publicly shame an entire world of fossil fuel users while keeping a straight face. That's not how "Time" put it. But that's the truth.
James Baker, the former general counsel for the FBI's James Comey, said now that the Justice Department's inspector general has released its report, that Donald Trump should step up and apologize. Are you kidding me? What a hoot. When has the FBI ever apologized? Let's ask Richard Jewell.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, frustrated, outraged -- and rightly so, given the ridiculous direction of the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump -- tried to insist Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler explain a too-strange-to-be-true process that allowed a witness to serve as questioner, and when he was shut down, snapped back: "How much money do you have to get [inaudible]?"
Barry Berke, the attorney for Judiciary Committee Democrats, spent considerable time during Monday's congressional impeachment inquiry making the case against Donald Trump by presenting, supposedly, all the facts and evidences and proofs and irrefutables of the president's "corrupt abuse of power," and so forth and so on. But like all the other pro-impeach voices the Democrats have brought, Berke's talk was all wisp, all smoke.
So it's done. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a televised press conference with a message that surprised no one, said the Democrats are indeed going forward with impeachment. The bigger surprise was her ability to keep a smile off her face while speaking of her love for the country and regard for the founders.
Hillary Clinton may be many things -- former senator, former State Department secretary, former first lady, former failed presidential candidate, former email erasing expert. And so on and so forth. But what she isn't is a lesbian.
Talk radio rock star Michael Savage, in an opinion piece, tied the current impeachment crusade against President Donald Trump to biblical truths about the persecution and crucifixion of Jesus Christ; to the Jews of yesteryear versus the Jews of today; and to the prosecution of an innocent by the Romans and Pontius Pilate to modern time Deep State evils. It's a most brilliant comparison.
The FBI issued a warning to buyers of new smart television sets that went like this: Beware -- hackers, manufacturers and app developers now have an open door into your home. Big Brother is watching. Big Brother is listening. And Big Brother is now coming as a too-good-to-believe TV purchase price wrapped in holiday ribbon.
Newt Gingrich, former House speaker, just wrote that Donald Trump's supporters better watch out and pay attention because the forces working to bring this president down are hardly finished with their efforts -- despite the fact genuine impeachable offenses are nowhere to be found. Take a memo: Gingrich is absolutely correct.
Democrats, take a memo: Even Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson predicted, on CNBC, that President Donald Trump seemed surely, certainly, sure as can be on fast-track for reelection. That -- from a man whom by all left-leaners' accounts ought to be a natural Democratic Party voter, a natural Donald Trump hater.
Anonymous, by starting as anonymous and staying anonymous, only underscores his worthlessness to any insights into President Donald Trump.
We're on the cusp of a real constitutional crisis that's pitting the vicious left against a nation of outraged citizens who know full well the partisans in the Democratic Party are only in it to win it, rather than in it to humbly serve.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, in a series of tweets, said Congress ought to quit the impeachment madness and take a deeper look at Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and so forth and so on -- and he's right. If the Bidens had "Rs" next to their names, not "Ds," the media would be all over this matter.
Joe Biden just told an MSNBC-watching audience that men shouldn't ever "raise a hand to a woman in anger" -- except when he has to, when it's "self-defense." And wait for it, wait for it: That wasn't even Biden's worst debate-related moment.
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, entered the House intelligence committee hearing on impeachment as the Democrats' best hope of bringing the hammer to President Donald Trump's head. He left atop a wave of presumption. In other words: The anticipated big bombsheller dropped a big nothingburger.
This day in history in 1975, Ronald Reagan announced his run for the Republican Party's nomination for president. He lost. He didn't quit. And as history recounts, his pairing with Pope John Paul II, along with deep faith in God and belief in mission, led to the ultimate tear-down of Cold War communism.
