The newly installed Democratic House of Representatives seems intent on executing a Watergate redux-cutting the president's legs off through relentless hearings, document subpoenas, a chorus of accusations and a possible impeachment thrust, though House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indicated that she is opposed to impeaching the president, at least for now.
A case in point was former Trump lawyer Michael D. Cohen's recent testimony before the House Oversight Committee, in which he savaged his former boss at the very moment the president was involved in delicate and complex nuclear talks with the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
At the dawn of the Cold War, when the Truman administration began to sound alarms about the Soviet threat, prompting it to devise the Marshall Plan and support the creation of NATO, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg expressed the old political etiquette in terms that became well-nigh immortal when he observed that politicians should cease "Partisan politics at the water's edge." What he meant was that politicians shouldn't criticize the president or the country while overseas and shouldn't, from U.S. shores, criticize the president's actions involving serious overseas negotiations.
Even as recently as 2012, when gop presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama for remarks he made to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, Romney drew a public rebuke from House Speaker John Boehner, also a Republican.
Trump and his people have been under investigation for possible nefarious Russia ties for thirty-two months, with no end in sight and without any serious actionable evidence of actual offenses that could get the president impeached and convicted.
PELOSI MAY say that she opposes impeachment, but Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler is seeking documents from over sixty Trump associates in his pursuit of Trump misbehavior.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff seems to be looking beyond the Mueller probe and the old theories of Trump connivance with Russia.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/democratic-war-against-trump-52247
A case in point was former Trump lawyer Michael D. Cohen's recent testimony before the House Oversight Committee, in which he savaged his former boss at the very moment the president was involved in delicate and complex nuclear talks with the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
At the dawn of the Cold War, when the Truman administration began to sound alarms about the Soviet threat, prompting it to devise the Marshall Plan and support the creation of NATO, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg expressed the old political etiquette in terms that became well-nigh immortal when he observed that politicians should cease "Partisan politics at the water's edge." What he meant was that politicians shouldn't criticize the president or the country while overseas and shouldn't, from U.S. shores, criticize the president's actions involving serious overseas negotiations.
Even as recently as 2012, when gop presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama for remarks he made to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, Romney drew a public rebuke from House Speaker John Boehner, also a Republican.
Trump and his people have been under investigation for possible nefarious Russia ties for thirty-two months, with no end in sight and without any serious actionable evidence of actual offenses that could get the president impeached and convicted.
PELOSI MAY say that she opposes impeachment, but Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler is seeking documents from over sixty Trump associates in his pursuit of Trump misbehavior.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff seems to be looking beyond the Mueller probe and the old theories of Trump connivance with Russia.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/democratic-war-against-trump-52247
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