Schiff’s public impeachment hearings have concluded. I watched the entire show. I have a few comments, but first, I would
refer everyone to Devin Nunes’ closing argument which pretty well summarizes
the context of these hearings and what is really going on. Here is the LINK.
Now, my comments. It’s
pretty clear that these hearings are changing no one’s opinions about the
President. The Democrats will twist and
turn bits and pieces of evidence until they think they have something to
justify in their own minds the fact that they are trying to overturn the will
of the electorate and remove a president they don’t like from office.
The real problem is that the Democrats’ actions are enabling
the belief that if you don’t like the person who wins an election, if they are
not whom you voted for, or if you simply don’t agree with their policies, then
you can simply remove them from office.
I think the enabling is intentional, for that is exactly what the Democrats
seek to do.
Democrats claim that they are defending the Constitution,
but in reality their very actions thwart not only the Constitution but essentially
all the core principles upon which this country is based. They are, and have been since 2016, trying to
overturn the results of an election – results that they did not like. They seem not to understand that in America
we have elections. Some people are disappointed
with the outcome; they may be upset that the person who won has different
priorities or policies than did their candidate. But, disappointed as we may be, we support
the President and the Office, even while voicing our dissent to polices we do
not like. And, we remove a President not
by calculated coup, but by voting.
That is America. Refusal
to acknowledge the President as President is not American. Nancy Pelosi calling the President an “imposter”
is not American; it is not the proper exercise of her oath to uphold the Constitution
and laws of the United States of America.
The untold thousands who refuse to call Donald Trump “President Trump” because
they state “he is not my president” do not understand how our democracy
works. Rather than exploiting that lack
of understanding, the Democrats should be educating and setting an example of
how we respect elections in this country.
The Democrats also disrespect our Constitution and our laws in
the manner in which they handle these hearings.
Schiff, we know, is not uncomfortable lying to the American people with
a straight face, but the entire Democrat party is behind the unfairness of
these hearings. Key witnesses who have
actual facts are not allowed to appear, selective transcripts (mostly only favorable
to Democrats) are released, Republican requests for key witnesses are denied,
hearings are held in secret, laws and rules are not followed. Instead, Schiff has set himself up as some
sort of king who will run things along, overrunning all semblance of a fair and
just hearing, until he reaches his goal which is to destroy the President and
with him the will of the electorate.
I also want to comment generally on the witnesses who
appeared at the hearings. What we had
was a parade of opinion and feelings and hearsay and individual interpretations
of hearsay. That was the “evidence”
presented by the Democrats. Incomplete
testimony has been reported by the Democrat PR department (also known as the mainstream
media) that seems to imply the President to be guilty of something, but if
complete and full answers of witnesses are examined, one sees that any evidence
of guilt is completely lacking.
The witnesses to varying extents all seemed to be upset or hurt
because they no longer held the same power that they did before the current
administration. Sad they were re-called;
sad their friend was re-called, upset they were no longer included in this or
that meeting, upset that they were not listened to as they had been in the past,
sad that their opinion about this or that policy was not adopted. What they don’t seem to understand is that
the President, not the career public servant, sets policy. Again, this is why we have elections – so that
the people can express which policy they favor by electing the person who
represents that policy. We are a
government of/by/for the people and the way the people express their will is
through elections. We expect those who work
for our President to understand that and not to think that we elected them
instead.
Finally, the hypocrisy of the Democrats is stunning. They want to investigate this President for
every move he takes; yet they do not want an investigation of anyone else. They seem to think that the entire Biden
family should have some sort of immunity just because Joe Biden is a
candidate. The fact that Ukraine and
Burisma may have used his son to seek some leverage when Biden was vice
president cannot be investigated; the Republicans cannot call Hunter Biden as a
witness, even though every witness said there was possible corruption involving
Hunter Biden during the time that Joe Biden was vice president.
The Democrats claim it is their duty to investigate a phone
call in which the actual evidence shows nothing untoward happened, but object
to the President’s attempt to investigate actual corruption in a country to
which we give a wealth of taxpayer dollars.
Whether the President’s concerns about the connection between Ukraine
and the 2016 election or the possible Burisma corruption turn out to be
accurate or not does not mean that he does not have the right as well as the
duty to investigate. That the Burisma
corruption investigation might lead to questionable actions by a vice president
who now happens to be a candidate for president does not mean that the
investigation cannot or should not occur. Nor does it mean that the request to
investigate was for political purposes, especially when every witness said
there was at least an appearance of impropriety in the Burisma-Biden connection. And, there is absolutely no evidence of any
kind of quid pro quo or bribery or extortion on the part of the President.
The Democrats claim that the President was trying to
influence an election. It is they who are
actually trying to influence two elections.
First, they are trying to overturn the legitimate results of the 2016
election, something they have been trying to do since before President Trump
was sworn in. Second, they are trying to
influence the 2020 election with this ridiculous impeachment show. Indeed, several Democrats have asserted that “If
we don’t impeach the President he will be re-elected.”
This impeachment show is nothing more than a political
campaign strategy by a party that has nothing else to campaign on. The current President’s policies and actions
are helping ALL the people of this country and improving our status in the
world while in many ways making it a safer place. His style is not soft but often abrasive and
that seems to be all that the Democrats can attack. And so they do. They make up stories and try to convince the
American people that our vote was a mistake and we should defer to the
Democrats who claim to have superior knowledge and intelligence than do we (they
make their perceived inferiority of those who voted for or who plan to vote for
President Trump clear by the names that they call us). The
Democrats seem to think that because they are better than we are, that we should
therefore simply allow them to overturn our will and our vote, allow them to
remove a duly elected President from office based on rumor, innuendo, and hurt
feelings, and place themselves in power – they, the people who have no policy
to run on, who rather than do the work of the American people have frittered
away hours and dollars on ridiculous investigations and hearings.
The thing I find most amazing is that so many are allowing
this to happen, to move forward. That so
many are allowing their voice to be stolen.
That may be the most frightening revelation of this whole process. And, if President Trump is not reelected then
I truly fear we will be facing the end of all that has made this country the
shining star of the world for over 200 years.
hmm
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