The Democrats should be changing the subject, and running away from President Trump’s legal issues as fast as they can.
It is illustrative of how completely invested they were in the hare-brained fraud of Russian collusion, that they are having such a crisis of separation from the subject. They are not the only losers in this fiasco, though they are the biggest losers.
They are left trying to pretend that they have an invitation to impeach from special counsel Robert Mueller, but that is not correct. In his and his Trump-hating investigative staff’s desperation to attack the president, Mueller engaged in the wholly unprofessional practice of acknowledging that he could not claim there was adequate evidence to prosecute or impeach the president, but could not exonerate him, either. It was up to the House of Representatives to determine if there were grounds to impeach.
Ahead of last week’s release of the redacted Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr in his summary explained the criteria for a charge of obstruction. Those criteria include evidence of a corrupt act with corrupt intent in contemplation of a legal proceeding. The attorney general, the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, a favorite of congressional Democrats who was supposedly considering recording Trump two years ago to canvass the cabinet to see if he was mentally unfit to be president, and the special counsel all agreed that none of the necessary ingredients for the president to be guilty of obstruction was present.
The extravagant, knife-edge judgment call the House of Representatives Democrats have been pretending to be considering about whether to impeach or not is bunk—self-improvised therapy to cushion their psychological plunge from confidence they could take down the president, to the grim awakening to the legal vulnerabilities of the Obama Administration and the Clinton campaign in confecting this monstrous fraud of Trump-Russian collusion. It is like a retreating army, led by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) insisting that impeachment won’t succeed, then a less defeatist Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saying of the president that “he’s not worth it,” (as if there were a chance of impeaching him), followed by Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D.-Calif.) intoning that impeachment can’t be done without some Republican support.
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See Also:
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(2) How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost
(3) Appeals court rules Trump can build border wall
(4) The Democrats Have Hurt Themselves by Lying about the Tax Cuts
(5) Trump World ramps up campaign to turn tables in Russia case, target Dems who ‘colluded’
AG Barr told the Dems to shove it. Chicken Little Nadler and his barnyard friends are on FOX right now doing a damn good impression of a spoiled 5 yr old rolling around on the floor screaming and kicking after being told he can’t have ice cream. IMO it is not anger I am seeing and hearing. It is fear I am smelling.
Agreed!
Off topic: “Where am I now?” At the moment I’ve just completed tomorrow’s offering and I’m back to fooling with a widget in my sidebar trying to get the settings correct (it’s complicated). At the moment it works as intended and the purpose is to line up (and save) the sidebar video’s I play so that they can be revisited by clicking through them.
In the same way I’m now showing three days entries on each page so that folks can check on what they may have missed. Tomorrow a new page will appear which will show the older entries (this is how I had things set up at A2 hosting).
Just FYI.