In previous posts I explained the craziness of the Democrats’ impeachment jihad against Pres. Trump. This post is a continuation of the series which exhibits the Dems’ near complete divorce from law and logic.
I regularly listen to only one talk show, The Hugh Hewitt Show. I listen only sporadically to the others, if not at all. This segment of Friday’s show is an interview with Dr. Matthew Spalding of Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center in Washington, DC. If you have 21 minutes, listen to Spalding’s assessment of the impeachment proceedings so far. He raises some interesting points far removed from the confirmation-bias gabfest on the cable shows and left-of-center networks (which means all of them).
Two historical references in the conversation are intriguing. First, the Democrats’ claim that Trump is especially egregious in the use of presidential powers for political gain is undermined by … history. Lincoln ordered Sherman to send his Indiana troops home to vote, all this during a catastrophic civil war. Interesting. Second, Adam Schiff butchers the context of Hamilton’s letter to Washington. Hamilton was defending Washington from his critics not, as Schiiff asserts, warning Washington from becoming an autocrat. The letter mentions the dangers to Washington of popular demagogues “riding the whirlwind” … people like Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi, and the rest of the Resistance barkers. The Dems are so desperate to remove Trump that they are more willing to resemble skilled contortionists than mature statesmen.
One of the biggest dangers of this current impeachment affair is the danger of impeachment’s regular use as a tool of political bickering, something I have been warning about for weeks. In the end, here we are.
Republicans jot this down: the next time a Democrat president invents by presidential decree whole new categories of immigrants to be exempt from legal sanction, as Obama did in 2014 with merely his “pen and phone”, please move to expel that person from office.
RogerG