Hat Tip: Donkey Hotey
Granted, McPain, b/k/a Senator John McCain did not exactly graduate from the top of his class at the US Naval Acadamy. However even McPain was smart enough to know the difference between intelligence and democrat political opposition research, from Breitbart:
Late Senator John McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Christopher Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Justice Department’s recent Inspector General report revealed.
[…]
The IG report discloses that McCain gave five new Steele reports to Comey that the FBI did not previously possess, showing that McCain served as a conduit for Steele’s information to reach the FBI even after the British ex-spy was formally cut off as an FBI source.
It is not clear whether McCain knew at the time that Steele had previously been terminated as an FBI source.
If you happen to go by McPain’s earthly remains, feel free to water the flowers.
Don Surber, today:
ITEM 1: The New York Times reported, “At a time when germs are growing more resistant to common antibiotics, many companies that are developing new versions of the drugs are hemorrhaging money and going out of business, gravely undermining efforts to contain the spread of deadly, drug-resistant bacteria.”
Suing Big Pharma has consequences.
The story said, “The grim financial outlook for the few companies still committed to antibiotic research is driving away investors and threatening to strangle the development of new lifesaving drugs at a time when they are urgently needed.”
But it goes beyond suing Big Pharma, according to the Times.
The story said, “The problem is straightforward: The companies that have invested billions to develop the drugs have not found a way to make money selling them. Most antibiotics are prescribed for just days or weeks — unlike medicines for chronic conditions like diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis that have been blockbusters — and many hospitals have been unwilling to pay high prices for the new therapies. Political gridlock in Congress has thwarted legislative efforts to address the problem.”
Research in capitalism follows the market. Research in government follows the politics. If we stopped chasing windmills battling an imaginary problem, we could have the resources to battle this one.
I have my doubts on that point. Congress might have the time if they stopped chasing impeachment, (which isn’t going to go anywhere) but they wouldn’t have the will.
And therein lies the key, I think. Do we really want government Healthcare, where your health and well-being is driven by the politics of the moment and whoever happens to be in political power? That’s really what the Democrats are proposing, you know. That’s what single payer is.
I will say this again: the only way to lower prescription drug costs is to get government out of the picture entirely.
We may have actually found a public service for the Unions to perform… Killing off the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Employees of Southern Poverty Law Center civil rights organization the have voted to unionize, the SPLC announced Monday.
The employees voted to join the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. The vote was 142-45, according to the SPLC union twitter account.
Look… you and I both know that the fastest way to kill off an organization is to unionize it. Consider for example the bomb crater that is Detroit. Consider our educational system is destroyed by government and the teachers unions.
And now, the SPLC. It couldn’t happen to a nicer hate group.
Oh, and let’s not forget the question of the moment:
I thought fairness was supposed to be baked into the SPLC. That fairness was supposed to be what they were about. So why, I wonder, did the employees feel they had to unionize?
We wonders, yes we wonders.
Personally, I can’t wait to see the place being struck by workers carrying signs screaming “Unfair!” And dragging that giant plastic rat around with them.
Ann Coulter
Bonus question, for thirty-five cents or a three week old cup of Tim Horton’s coffee, what is the only Christmas season holiday less observed that Festivus, from Breitbart:
Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge Ron Karenga — aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural gibberish that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves.
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Those were the precepts of Karenga’s United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented “African” names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant.)
It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglika,” which he
based on the philosophy of “Mein Kampf” — and clueless public
schoolteachers began celebrating the made-up, racist holiday.
So out with old, in with the even older, and onwards to 2020!
Aside: is only me, but you mutter Kwanzaa do you sound like Tazan?
From American Greatness:
Yovanovitch “quashed” a corruption investigation into the disappearance of foreign aid because the Obama Administration was funneling the money to non-governmental organizations run by left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, recently returned from a fact-finding mission in Ukraine, and discussed his findings in an interview with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk for his podcast.
There are several things indicated here… None of which should surprise any of our readers:
* Since, according to the usual suspects, Rudy Giuliani isn’t the brightest bulb on the string, the slightest degree of investigation would have revealed this, and yet, they have obviously and repeatedly avoided investigating such matters.
Meaning, somebody had to know.
* Of itself it’s not proof, it does fall directly in line with the idea that the specific purpose of all the smoke the Democrats are putting up lately is to cover for their own misdeeds as regards the Ukraine.
# Finally, it tells us that Attorney General Barr already has investigations going on this…and that the outcome of that investigation will be happening somewhere in the neighborhood of September or October.
They outstanding question to my mind at this point is, who ordered quashing such evidence?
I would like you to notice something here. Those of you who know the world of Peanuts, know that one thing Linus never does is let go of his security blanket. Yet, he does so here, while reciting Luke’s Gospel.
Charles Shultz was no fool. It is a fairly subtle thing, but i believe there is a message being sent here. Of all the things in his life, that Gospel is the one thing Linus is sure enough of that he doesn’t need his security blanket.
Watch:
Christmas Eve, 1946, President Truman said:
“Our…hopes of future years turn to a little town in the hills of Judea where on a winter’s night two thousand years ago the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled.
Shepherds keeping the watch by night over their flock heard the glad tidings of great joy from the angels of the Lord singing,
‘Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth, peace, good will toward men.’
The message of Bethlehem best sums up our hopes…
If we as a nation, and the other nations of the world, will accept it, the star of faith will guide us into the place of peace as it did the shepherds on that day of Christ’s birth long ago.”
A Bithead’s Christmas
Edtor’s note:
Once again as in years past, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.
As I believe I’ve told you in previous years, I get more email about this one single post, these 2900 or so words, then I have about anything else written here. And it happens every single year. Either this one post is particularly good, or the rest of it is comparatively bad. You’ll forgive me if in my vanity, I believe the former.
I take that they’re using Email, instead of simply leaving comments, to mean that I’ve struck a very personal and private nerve. Touching people in that fashion is a very rare thing, and one I take very seriously, so the answer to the question is “Yes, of course I’ll run it again”.
Understand going in, it may not be politically correct. I seek no absolution, no forgiveness, for it’s being overtly Christian in nature, any more than I seek absolution or forgiveness for anything else that I put into these spaces. It is what it is, because Christmas is what it is, and because I speak my mind on the topic at hand, whatever that is.
Christmas, and thereby, Christianity itself, has been going on for a little over 2000 years, in spite of all the naysayers, protesters and government regulations that history has managed to toss up in those 2000- plus years. It does so, because at the core of it all, is a message…….. a message that all the naysayers, protesters and government hacks will never understand, much less conquer.
It is a message that will survive the ravages of time, government, and liberals, fascists, and anything and everything else, long after you and I are no longer even a memory in this world.
The Christmas message, you see, is eternal, and ever green.
(Evergreen. I am suddenly struck with the symbolism here)There is something of a journalistic precedent for this as well. . . I do not pretend to hold myself quite so high in the world as these media outlets who have such traditions as “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”… but they’ve been getting away with such things for well over 100 years, so I suppose I can get away with it, here.
One of the things that man has always found fascinating about the Christmas story, is that you can reread it all your life, and every time you reread it, you find a new truth buried within it, so perhaps that’s WHY we get away with repeating such stories. It’s perhaps where such traditions come from.
So with all this in mind, and with the hope of helping you find new meaning in this season… and peace… a personal peace… in these troubled times, I will offer once again this year:
A Bithead’s Christmas
I find myself wanting to take more seriously, the challenge of writing to the subject of Christmas, today, than I have in years past. It’s not clear in my mind as to why, but this isn’t unusual… I never really do have a firm grip on why I want to attack a subject in these spaces. In fact, the writing of a coulmn for me has becomes more an effort of exploring a subject; the codification of random thoughts. The act of putting those thoughts into words on a screen allows me to think about, and RE-think about the subject at hand. My thoughts on a given subject often do not fully take shape until such time as I’ve re-written them twice. Often, indeed… usually, the ideas are already there, waiting to be cast into words, but not fully defined until the act of sitting down and typing them out. I suppose this subject is no exception.To this effort, some blogs, this time of year will quote the great Gospels of Christ’s arrival, and expound on that. And that’s worthy, and right. Some others will take the secular angle of the holiday and go off on that. That too, is fine, though frankly it’s always for me missed the core of the topic, a little.But not me, for either of those tacks. Not this year. I’m going to go off the beaten path, for this post, at least in context of this blog, given it’s Christmas, and off the beaten path in terms of the Liturgical calendar, given it’s me. I’m going to stick with the meaning of Christmas, but to point it up, I’m going to turn to something a little later… about 30 years later… for my subject. I trust you’ll see why when I’m done.This story is in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We’ll use Luke’s version for the purpose.
In Luke 18 it reads:
15 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 17 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Now, all three versions add a little something to the story, and I suggest you read them yourself to get it all.
Most times that Christians hear this text or read it, a child is being baptized. The apparently intended thrust of reading it in those situations is to make a loose connection with the Children being accepted by Christ. And, that’s a valid angle for the story.
But, think about the story line, here, so you can get the flavor of what I’m going to describe to you. There’s a far bigger angle that many miss.
See, Christ has been playing “superstar” for a while, now. He’s been attracting flat out huge crowds wherever he goes. The disciples are starting to become concerned for the (human) well being of Christ. Children are, then as now, a source of some stress to adults already under stress, so the disciples decide, wordlessly to give the Lord a break. But Jesus says.. “Hey… No.. Let ’em come… It’s OK. ” Apparently, seeing some remaining resistance in their eyes, he reinforces the command with a statement that must have shaken them badly. “It’s to the likes of these as belongs the Kingdom of God.”
Now, It’s not hard for us to imagine what’s going on in the minds of the disciples…. They must have felt a little put back… While not saying so, they must have figured they had an inside track to Heaven. remember by this time they were already arguing about who is going to be greatest in the kingdom. (Shrug) It’s human nature.
The passages don’t record if they said anything, but you just know what they’re thinking, here… “Comon, Jesus… We’re tryin’ to give you a break here! And you elevate these lowest of low, mere children, into the ownership of heaven? You raise a polite nothing to a path to heaven and eternity? What’s THAT about?”And you know, Jesus knows it too. He knows full well what they’re thinking, because watch what he comes back with: “I’ll tell you the truth;”, he says, “Unless you change… Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”
But what does he mean, here? He’s talking, I’m afraid, about how you lose touch with happiness and the sense of wonder, as you become an adult. That loss prevents us from seeing the Kingdom of heaven as it is.
For most of us, the happiest times of our lives was when we were children. When we’re younger, we have less in the way of cares, and troubles. Let’s admit, too, that as we get older, we become aware of, and allow more and more sadness into our lives.
It’s true; It’s a hard world out there, and being adults we’ve come to understand this, in a way of understanding that only long exposure and experience… and lots of scar tissue, can bring.It seems that every year we have more worries and concerns.
Oh, yeah, do we EVER worry. We worry about our health, and those concerns increase with advancing age. We worry about our jobs, about our investments, our savings, about the future in general. Retirement is a concern. Will we have enough? We’re too fat, we’re too skinny. We’re too tall, we’re too short, our once wavy hair is still waving… Only, it’s waving bye-bye. We worry about the future our kids will have and the normal growing up problems, but we also worry about the future that we’ve left our kids. We look at the news, and we wonder what kind of a world have we left them? We even worry if we worry too much.We’ve seen marriages and relationships we thought would pass the test of time, pass away, instead. Things we had hoped would come to pass, didn’t, and those we’d not dreamed, in our wildest nightmares would happen, did. We see loved ones die. Jobs disappear. Hearts get broken.
And friends, those are just the hum-drum… The everyday worries that every generation has had, since Cain bopped his brother’s bean with a rock. Then you get into the problems particular to us and our times; AIDS, oil shortages, cancer, drugs, the way our own technology seems to be spiraling out of our control…
And Islamofacists.
Ah, yes, there’s nothing at all, to my mind, like the specter of 3000 plus people dying on national television, in Washington, NY and Pennsylvania… while we watch, to remind us that we’re not in control.And yes…. it’s all about control, if you think on it for long. All these things I’ve listed are worries about things we cannot control, try as we might.
The list of these reverses, these scars, gets longer as the years progress, and it starts eventually, to break down the positive outlook in every one of us… Each according to their ability to resist. Each step, each worry, each bit of emotional scar tissue, if you will, moves us farther away from the relative joy of our comparatively carefree childhood.By now the sharper among you will notice where I’m going with this;
This is where Christmas comes in. This is why Christmas holds a special place in our hearts, and our traditions.
You see, even for the not-so-religious, it is a time of renewal of our fragile human spirit. All of the hurts, small and large, become less pronounced, and fade under the soft glow of the lights, the candles, the fireplace, and the smile of the children.
Have you ever noticed that it’s the children, in fact, that do us the most healing? Christmas, it’s said, is for the children.
Presidential speechwriter and WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan noted recently about some of the qualities of children:
“They are susceptible to wonder. A child can look at a red toy car in the red-green glow of Christmas tree lights and imagine an entire lifetime. A child can play with a new doll and smell good things being cooked and hear sweet music and it can make that child imagine that life is good, which gives her a template for good, a category for good; it helps her know good exists. This knowledge comes in handy in life; those who do not receive it, one way or another, are sadder than those who do.”
Of course, we move away from that ability as we grow older. Our long experience has hardened us to the realities of the world around us, and perhaps jaded our point of view. But here comes Christmas, which gives us, individually and collectively, the chance of looking at the world through the wonder-filled eyes of a child once again… Becoming childlike ourselves in the process, and becoming healed and renewed.
The experience is a far deeper one for those who have accepted the Christmas promise, and it’s meaning. Reacting to that promise includes allowing someone else to run the controls of our lives.
Remember I said it was all about control? Well, I want you to think about the features of being a child. It was Randall Jarrell, I think, who once quipped:
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”
Well, let’s remember.
You’re NOT in control of much of anything. Someone who knows better, and is by far more powerful than we, is running things. And looking back, I’m sure most of us would conclude that having that situation back would be of comfort to us. Haven’t we all wished to resign from the world of adulthood at times?
I guess this would be a good place to slip in a parallel story.
Consider the fictional person of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Think about how the story develops; He’s had some serious emotional setbacks in early life… and those have become a self-feeding, never ending circle by the time we meet him, 7 years after his best friend’s death.
All these setbacks have made him cold, and hard, and for all outward appearances, non-feeling. He’s covered with emotional scar tissue. Being hard, is his way of dealing with what he cannot control. Only after his overnight experience do all these cares get swept away, along with his anger of not being able to control his situation…. The realization comes to him that he never really WAS in control in the first place, so stop fretting about it all… Think about what are essentially the first words out of his mouth as he realizes that the weight of his worries.. Not unlike worries you and I have had, are gone; “I’m as light as a feather….” The weight of that scar tissue… And all the concerns they represent having been lifted off his shoulders…“…and as giddy as a Schoolboy!”
Like.
A.
Child.
“I’ll tell you the truth”, he said, “Unless you change.. Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”
Amazing parallels, aren’t they?
I’m reliably informed that Charles Dickens was not as a rule what one would call very religious. Yet, in looking at the parallels in these two story lines, I must wonder in all honesty if he didn’t have some help with “A Christmas Carol”.
Now, you’ll notice I took some liberty with the way the Biblical text was quoted. Some liberty, I say, but not very much, really, since it’s long been pointed out by Bible scholars that the word that earlier versions of the text had as ‘change’ were really translated from the ancient Greek word for “transform”. This is a major point, because it demonstrates what the first step is, and whose it is… yours.
And no, change and transformation are not the same thing. The best description I’ve ever thought of to explain the difference between the two, runs along these lines:If I take a rock, and in the other hand I take a large hammer, and I hit the rock with the hammer, and break it, I’ve changed that rock. If I take that same rock, and take a small hammer and chisel, and very carefully, perhaps over a period of decades, sculpt that rock into a flower, I’ve still merely changed that rock.
Transformation, on the other hand, is when the rock itself, as a matter of responding to it’s own will, becomes a flower. And of course that’s beyond the normal power of the rock, by any standard we know.
What Christ therefore is saying is, that we must become children, as of a matter of our own will. Which is, as I say, impossible by any standard we know…. Which in turn leads us to the source of all things, who teaches us how, and gives us the power to do it.
You see, the externalities I mentioned, the lights, the fire, the children…and that which Dickens writes of… the giving, the being open to what joys are around us, and so on, helps toward the goal of understanding the Christmas promise, but it’s not the whole deal.
At the core of it all… (and this is a connection that, alas, many people never make…) is that the one whose birth is being celebrated every December the 25th, is the one who takes over that long list of worries. But understand, here…THAT’S WHY WE CELEBRATE!!
With those worries removed, lives get changed, hearts mended, child-like perspectives restored in a way that the lights, carols and greenery can never do on their own. And the newly remade Children find that the authority and responsibility and all the ponderous weight connected with them, are taken away by the one who said “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me”.
Now, I must warn you; There are those who will resist being told all of this… to the point of removing such joy as they find, wherever they may find it, often using the power of governments, and force of arms to have it removed from town squares and schools, mocking, persecuting and yes, even killing those responsible for the spreading of the news of this miracle.
It’s a sad truth, that a world used to darkness, you see, will continually fight to see the darkness continued.
That warning given, however, I will say to you also, that it’s no accident, Christmas being called the season of light, and that Christ is called the light of the world.
If I have one wish for this Christmas, it is that you will be open to the light…. With the wondering eyes of a child. Please believe me when I tell you did if you receive it as such oh, you will have a Merry Christmas, possibly for the first time in your life.
The Snark of the Day, from Cocaine Mitch, b/k/a Senate Majority Leader Mitch O’Connell:
“Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial? Bernie Sanders is impartial? So let’s quit the charade. This is a political exercise. … All I’m asking of Schumer is that we treat Trump the same way we treated [President] Clinton,”
From an article in Disrn:
In a dialogue with Catholic high school students in Rome this weekend, Pope Francis responded to a question about how to deal with atheists and people of other faiths by saying that Christians should never proselytize — and any who do are not truly Christians.
This would seem to fly in the face of the Great Commission of Christ:
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
So now we are faced with a choice of following the pope, or following Christ, himself.
My, that’s a hard choice.
Not.
It won’t be very long now, before we see this Pope pronouncing abortion to be a sacrament of God. Francis is a prime example of why Luther had the right idea… That the relationship between man and God is one on one, not in the herd. Be careful here, this is not to suggest that the church that varies his name has not become just as polluted, but that’s another post.
But here’s the thing… With increasing attacks on Christianity, one really must wonder why his predecessor was so unceremoniously replaced.
Perhaps the change in ownership and the change in direction,180° from the publication that Billy Graham founded, Christianity Today, and the proximity and time to the Catholic Church leadership changing its direction as well, is a clue that we should be paying attention to?
The American Mirror estimates from the photo that only 98 people turned out for the town hall event featuring the former vice president.
Now, just for laughs, let’s do a little comparison. Here’s the overwheming crowd at Quid Pro Quo Joe’s rally:
And he’s the Democrat front-runner.
Then, lets look at Trump’s crowds:
Somehow, I don’t think I have to tell you how this story ends.
Low lights from the ‘rats debate, Slow Joe, Joseph Biden (moron – Delaware) proves he does care about job growth, but only if your surname happens to be Biden. video:
“Would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy,” the moderator asked Biden.
Instead of beating around the bush, Biden simply admitted that “the answer is yes.”
Why should Slow Joe care about the jobs of Pennsylvania oil worker or an Ohio coal miner? The Biden clan already has their money. That leaves Slow Joe free to push Russia’s economic interest.
Bill Cosby, years ago, used to do a bit called the coin toss;
“Okay, the Americans can wear whatever they want, shoot from behind the rocks and trees and everywhere, and the British have to wear red and march in a straight line…”
If what we saw during this impeachment fiasco …(..where, in spite of the claim that no one is above the law, we saw that the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, violated…) …is of any indication …this is what Nancy Pelosi calls “fairness”. This was my first thought when I read Tyler O’Neill over at PJM:
On Thursday, the House of Representatives adjourned before voting to send the articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate for a trial. This made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stall-tactic official — Democrats are refusing to forward the impeachment to the Senate until they receive assurances the trial will be fair in their eyes.
First of all, this is by definition an abuse of power, to say nothing of being unconstitutional. Forgive me, but I don’t recall ever having been told that in an impeachment process there was supposed to be a negotiation between the houses of Congress. The Constitution clearly lays out that the Senate has the sole impeachment power. Which means of course that Nancy Pelosi and her wandering band of Stalinist hacks have nothing to say about it.
That’s because the Constitution is absolutely clear about the Senate’s authority. Article I, Section 3 says: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”
So says Breitbart’s Joe Pollock, who adds:
If Pelosi refuses to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, McConnell can convene the Senate anyway, summon the Chief Justice, and swear in the Senators as jurors. Democrats can boycott, but they can’t stop the trial.
Of course the only problem with that is that our supposedly unbiased news media will never cover such a trial, or if they do it certainly won’t be with the same vigor as when they operated as an extension of the Democrat party during the House hearings. ( There’s that fairness thing again.)
Remember …in the eyes of the Democrats and it’s only “fair” if it promotes the Democrat position.
Let’s call this what it is. The reason the Democrats are playing this game is, they know that in an actual fair trial they’d be laughed out of the building. There is no advantage to their position and ultimately to their politics without being able to make the rules.
So why pursue this at all? They must have seen this end game coming months ago. I have to admit I’m slowly coming around to Mark Levin’s idea on this one.
The reasoning, as raised by one of Levin’s neighbors in a conversation, is that should an opening on the high court occur in the near future, the Democrats can refuse to vote for any justice selected by an “impeached president.”
There is no depth to which Democrats won’t go to promote their murderous politics.
Over at Real Clear Politics, Jonathan Turley suggests by the standards employed in the Trump impeachment, you could impeach every living president. There’s a video you need to see, there.
Know what? He’s got a point.
And I’ll go one step further. You could also impeach every living vice president. Quid Pro Quo Biden, for example,:
And yes, the House can still impeach Joe Biden. Obviously he cannot be removed from an office he doesn’t hold. But he can be barred from serving in any office in the future under the Constitution.
Frankly, that possibility makes the idea of the Democrats losing the house even more tasty.
Rick Moore passes this along:
It’s not every day you see a political party commit suicide on national TV and ensure the reelection of their opponent 11 months before Election Day.
Yeah, there is that. One gets the decided impression that they’re not going to like how this turns out. Do they truly believe that there isn’t going to be a huge backlash over this? Even their own internal polling is warning them that impeachment is a loser at the polls. My guess is that they’ve been watching the movie Thelma & Louise.
(Shrug)
So, okay, now that they’ve committed suicide effectively, what next? Possibly, nothing. Another reader makes the following suggestion;
There’s a possibility that Pelosi will never send the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. The excuse will be Dems can’t be sure of a fair trial by the GOP majority, but they know he’ll be acquitted and they don’t want that on the record, just the impeachment.
I wonder about this one a bit, but I suppose it doesn’t matter much. As Rick says they’ve effectively committed suicide, and you’re really can’t do all that much once you’re dead.
Addendum:Eric
Apparently a few of the Democrats are already floating this idea.
Pelosi, Congressman Adam Schiff, and Senator Chris Van Hollen have now all floated the idea of freezing the House vote where it is and not sending the impeachment articles to the U.S. Senate, where President Trump would undoubtedly go down in history as being vindicated.
Pelosi said, “So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us” and vowed to withhold naming the House Managers (the prosecutors) of the impeachment case until McConnell gives her the kind of “fair trial” that she demands… well the translation of that one is simple enough.
Yeah, well, the translation of that one is simple enough.she knows full well she’s not going to get any further with this nonsense, and she needs to find a way to blame the Republicans for it.
