It's looking like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has managed to keep his troops mostly in line and will have sufficient votes to prohibit the impeachment hearing from calling witnesses. Thank God, because that would be a pandora's box that would stretch out this ugly travesty for months. As it stands, President Trump may be acquitted by C.O.B. Friday.
I’ve pretty much avoided commenting on impeachment, as it’s been beaten to death and is so unseemly, it makes me sick to dwell on it, let alone watch it on TV. As I’ve often said about inane swill such as the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys, you’d have to hold a gun to my head to make me watch it (and I would beg you to pull the trigger). The same applies to impeachment, although the Republican legal team's brutal take-down of the Democrat arguments this week was a bit more palatable.
One positive: I believe the Democrats have tremendously boosted Republican prospects come November. House Democrats had already dug their party a deep hole for the 2020 election; Senate Democrats doubled down, effectively blasting that hole with 10,000 pounds of TNT to make it so deep, bedrock is visible.
First of all, the House Democrats did not come up with substantive articles of impeachment. They failed to call all of the witnesses they needed; and they let two thoroughly unlikeable hacks, Reps. Adam Schiff and Gerry Nadler, lead their charge. Speaker Nancy Pelosi foolishly held onto the articles of impeachment for four weeks after they had passed before finally ending the charade, realizing how foolish it was. The House and Senate Democrats then demanded the Senate call more witnesses. -- an insolent slap in the face.
I honestly don’t think the Democrats realize how gravely they’ve wounded their 2020 prospects, not just for taking back the White House, but for retaining control of the House and winning the Senate. They've behaved like -- pardon my French -- assholes.
A good harbinger of things to come is the special election that took place Tuesday in suburban Houston. Texas State Rep. John Zerwas resigned several months ago to take a job with the University of Texas. Democrats and their media stooges were aglow with the prospect of instructor and author Elizabeth Markowitz defeating Republican Gary Gates, a real estate investor, in the Jan. 28 runoff election. This would have been an important first step in helping Democrats seize control of legislative redistricting in the Lone Star State.
Heavy hitters including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Mike Bloomberg and former Attorney General Eric Holder campaigned for Markowitz. More than $1 million poured in to the Markowitz campaign (94 percent of it from outside her district, and 70 percent from outside Texas). Pollsters and prognosticators, who are so often embarrassingly wrong, predicted the race was too close to call. The actual result: Gates pummeled Markowitz, 58 to 42 percent, greatly outdoing President Trump’s 2016 margin of victory in that district (10 percent).
Granted, part of the problem for Ms. Markowitz was that some of those campaigning for her hold views that are anathema to millions of Texans – e.g., anti-fracking (Warren), no Gulf of Mexico oil drilling (Biden), and strict gun control (Bloomberg). But I believe the larger factor is the disgraceful behavior of Democrats during the entire impeachment debacle. You just can’t trust these nuts with the levers of power.
Charlatans like Schiff, Nadler and Sen. Chuck Schumer help Republican prospects far more than millions of dollars of donations flowing into Republican coffers. Just the thought of these cretins controlling Congress really, really fires up the Republican base and scares the bejesus out of independents.
Thanks, guys!
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