I have followed a variety of sources on the impeachment, watched or listened to hours and hours of the Senate impeachment trial. With all that it is hard to wrap my mind around some things:
- The shoddiness of what the Democratic House Managers ("DHM") brought to the Senate to adjudicate
- A case so shoddy liberal Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley protested its shoddy process and shoddy findings
- Liberal law professor Dershowitz was so appalled by the unConstitutional legal theory behind the Articles he joined Mr. Trump's defense team
- The DHM argument that Mr. Trump misdemeaned in pursuing an investigation of Ukranian corruption without linkage, an investigation on which the previous administration had actually exercised carrot-and-stick linkage
- The whole Pelosi urgency thing:
- No time for court adjudication of contested House subpoenas but plenty of time for court adjudication of contested Senate subpoenas (the evidentiary obligation being on the House; the Senate is only obliged to hear the House evidence presented)
- A rushed vote to impeach (the shortest investigative run-up to a presidential impeachment in American history), followed by withholding the Articles so 'urgently' drafted
- The whole Pelosi "sad, solemn, and somber" thing:
* Missed opportunity to go all out, Nancy!
- The DHM argument that John Bolton** is a relevant and indispensable witness (he might have been, had the House subpoenaed him and won in the courts to allow his testimony) but the Bidens somehow are not (as targets of the Ukrainian corruption probe how could they not be?)
** Once considered not credible by lead DHM Schiff, Mr. Bolton is now an impeccable witness
- The impermanence of liberal principles and ideas:
- The ever-evolving Democrat idea of bipartisanship
- The ever-evolving Democrat idea of due process (and this)
- The current Democrat idea of due process
- The liberal idea of double-jeopardy
- Reconciling Pelosi triumphalism (see above bullet for irony) with her an-acquittal-is-not-an-acquittal legal theory
- The marked contrast between the effectiveness of the defense presentation and the DHM ego-jockeys and their ham-handed prosecution
- The annoying outrageous pomposity of the lead House managers, culminating in final remarks by
"Nadler for the dunk!"Much much more, but so wearying when the opposition is so smug yet this stupid -- unabashed by its powerlust, intoxicated by its own preening sense of importance. I would be more convinced of the sincerity of the Democrat's impeachment death wish had these same Democrats impeached Mr. Obama first for the very things they have impeached Mr. Trump.Dear US Senate, please end this junk impeachment. Amen. Ask and you shall receive.DGB
Sunday, February 02, 2020
Dear US Senate, please end this shoddy junk impeachment
Damian Bennett has this to say:
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