For the purposes of this article, let us conduct a sort of outlandish thought experiment in which we will assign to Schiff good will, good faith, good values, good ethics, even good morals.
Let us posit that his conscience is aquiver with outrage, dat he neva hoida such a ting, and he that he believes he is pursuing the path of justice all the way down to "The bottom of it." Or let us think badly of him and impute to him a revenge motive, trying to give the Republicans a taste of the medicine with which they dosed former President Clinton.
In either case, I think that Clinton and Trump are not comparable, and that Democrats may suffer much more blowback this time than Republicans did two decades ago.
In Clinton's case, he was indisputably guilty, and the verdict had to determine the weight of the guilt.
Anyone who was engaged in the process back during the Clinton impeachment can recite, even when half asleep, the Democrat mantra: "He deserves censure but it does not rise to the level of impeachment." Any ranking Democrat, along with every rank fellow traveler, could be relied upon to stick to that script, leaving the country to wonder how high Clinton's peccadillo could rise.
The result was that Clinton was acquitted on the basis - not of innocence - of lack of sufficient severity.
The Clinton case featured a few of those elements as well: unexplained calls to Bill Richardson, unexplained visits to Vernon Jordan.
https://spectator.org/schiff-wrecked/
Let us posit that his conscience is aquiver with outrage, dat he neva hoida such a ting, and he that he believes he is pursuing the path of justice all the way down to "The bottom of it." Or let us think badly of him and impute to him a revenge motive, trying to give the Republicans a taste of the medicine with which they dosed former President Clinton.
In either case, I think that Clinton and Trump are not comparable, and that Democrats may suffer much more blowback this time than Republicans did two decades ago.
In Clinton's case, he was indisputably guilty, and the verdict had to determine the weight of the guilt.
Anyone who was engaged in the process back during the Clinton impeachment can recite, even when half asleep, the Democrat mantra: "He deserves censure but it does not rise to the level of impeachment." Any ranking Democrat, along with every rank fellow traveler, could be relied upon to stick to that script, leaving the country to wonder how high Clinton's peccadillo could rise.
The result was that Clinton was acquitted on the basis - not of innocence - of lack of sufficient severity.
The Clinton case featured a few of those elements as well: unexplained calls to Bill Richardson, unexplained visits to Vernon Jordan.
https://spectator.org/schiff-wrecked/
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