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Democrats Are Watering Down Impeachment into a Mere Recall Effort

2019-12-05

[AMERICANTHINKER] Days before Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
was to be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, Representative The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters

The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine <q>Impeach 45!</q> Waters

...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.01006 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.00801 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
called for him to be impeached for dubbing his opponent, "Crooked Hillary" during his campaign. Since name-calling doesn't qualify as high crimes or misdemeanors, the impeachment call fizzled, seen as another crazy Maxine rant. That was a mistake.

Just 19 minutes after President Trump was sworn in, the Washington Post announced, "The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun," this time for being rich. Every day since, networks breathlessly report new impeachment calls for tweeting, for unspoken words, for being an "inciter" of "hatred." There are 98 reasons to date. In fact, the term "impeach" has been so overused that it's losing its authority. It is seen no longer as a pivotal event in our country's history, but rather just as another political battle.

The Left has effectively recast impeachment as a recall. In a recall, a public official may be removed from office before his term expires, often for any reason or no reason at all.

Conversely, the Constitution specifies that impeachment is only for treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Now, I know the Constitution wasn't written for uneducated rubes like me. One needs a law degree, political office, or a spot on cable TV to be qualified to interpret the "real" meaning of the Constitution. Nevertheless, I'll weigh in.

Note the wording: impeachment for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Thus, evidence of one of the aforementioned conditions (legal jargon inserted for credentialing) must exist to trigger impeachment ‐ in other words, evidence of a crime before, not after the impeachment process.

But lack of cause is not an issue because, as Gerald Ford posited, "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."

No, Gerald, impeachment is a constitutional tool to remove a president who behaves in a manner deleterious to public welfare, not to remove a political enemy.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Unfortunately, Yamamoto not here. However...

Confucius say, "Bombing Pearl Harbor
Like leaving Qing dynasty barber.
Feel lightheaded now,
But in little while... POW!
Grab yer harp and shillelagh and scarper!"

Posted by: Spanky Munster1456 2019-12-05 16:25

#5 What was it Yamamoto said about Pearl Harbor?

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-05 15:35

#4 After Pelosi's rant this is out of play.

Posted by: 3dc 2019-12-05 15:10

#3 I, _____, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and bureaucratic;

Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-05 14:00

#2 Insurrection that is undermining the fundamental expectations of obedience and fidelity in the vast civil service of our nation. Salted for decades with preference for affirmative action and liberal political bias, their sense of entitlement and fitness to to rule, not serve, is surfacing throughout the organs of power. One branch at war with itself and and another is destroying confidence in the institutions themselves. In their obsession with power at any cost the left fail to grasp the fragility of the American experiment in self governance. Franklin’s words “...a Republic, if you can keep it “ loom larger of late.

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2019-12-05 13:16

#1 They think we are sheep, they think we will sit by and watch and just feel sorry for Trump if they impeach him out of office. She thinks she is above personal responsibility. The oath is to defend the constitution against all enemies...

Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-12-05 12:39

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