Monday, January 27, 2020

End the Impeachment Circus

Not since Caligula enrolled his horse Incitatus in the Roman Senate has a deliberative chamber of a great power seen such a display of undignified triviality and dishonest sophistry as the case for impeachment that the House Democrats delivered last week.

A chain of e-mails from May, 2019, publicized on FOX News' The Ingraham Angle last week, reveals a Times's reporter querying officials about a White House meeting earlier in 2019 attended by a "Whistleblower," Ukrainian officials, and White House officials.

The House impeachment is all about political gain: Tarnishing the Dems' foe Trump, keeping their party in control of the House, and the House Speaker and Committee heads holding on to their positions of power and influence.

The House impeachment gang are like Horace's mountain struggling to give birth and then delivering a ridiculous mouse.

The House is trying to make a preterit for impeachment what the Founders called "Maladministration," but rejected as a basis for impeachment for all the reasons evident in the House's behavior: The vague subjectivity and partisan interests vitiating "Maladministration" turn policy disputes and factional differences that should be settled by elections, into offenses grave enough to undo the sovereign people's legal election of the president-all to serve one faction's interests at the expense of another's.

You might as well call impeachment "Obstruction of the Executive." The House's demand, per its oversight powers, for witnesses and documents from the Executive collided with the doctrine of Executive Privilege.

The House chose not to do that, because it wanted to ram through the impeachment and milk it for every drop of "Personal political gain" that it could.


https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/end-impeachment-circus-bruce-thornton/

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