This impeachment will go on The Donald's permanent record. Nancy Pelosi notified his draft board. And Democrats will rename Donald J. Trump State Park.
Small wonder the Orange Man laughs in their faces. Democrats have diminished themselves. The impeachment turned a hollow victory in November into a humiliation.
Because once in power, what did they do?
Did they order the nation's economy to re-open?
Did they pass a corona virus relief package?
Did they work with Republicans on a new immigration law or anything else?
No, no, no. Democrats did not do anything like that. The first thing Democrats did once the election was certified was to impeach Donald John Trump, even though his term expired on January 20.
They impeached him again because their first impeachment failed.
And now the second impeachment has failed.
Democrats planned a second impeachment all along. Two days before protesters stormed the Capitol, USA Today ran a column, "Congress should impeach Trump again and bar him from holding any future public office."
In his column, writer Austin Sarat (an associate provost and associate dean of the faculty and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College) cited no specific crime, which the Constitution requires. Sarat's argument was we should impeach because he just doesn't like Donald Trump.
Without offering any proof, Sarat said, "Because the president has repeatedly shown that his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States means little to him, he must never be allowed to hold office again."
And yet, throughout his term, President Trump repeatedly went out of his way to respect the Constitution. He never pulled the plug on the Mueller witch hunt. He never disobeyed the unconstitutional restraining orders issued by mere district judges.
And unlike Obama, President Trump did not use the FBI to spy on political opponents.
Democrats took Sarat's advice and impeached Donald Trump.
Again.
On top of the stupidity of trying the same trick that failed last year, Democrats were remarkably inept in impeaching The Donald. The snoozer trial was set to fold on Saturday when Democrats got a hare-brained idea at the last minute to break their own rules and bring in a witness.
Media-ite reported, "Senate Democrats are under fire from all sides after striking a deal to avoid witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial — shortly after voting to allow them in a last-minute measure.
"The trial seemed as though it would conclude on Saturday afternoon, but House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announced that he was seeking testimony from a witness. That witness, Rep. Jaime Hererra Beutler (R-WA), was prepared to discuss the details of a phone call between Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in which the former president, Beutler alleges, indicated his support for the Capitol rioters after the attack was underway."
Media-ite failed to explain why Democrats changed their minds. Trump's lawyers told them that their mid-game rule change would enable Team Trump to call in 100 witnesses and drag the case out till June.
Oops.
After the Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon, the Democrat Party became the laughingstock of the nation and the world. The political media does not get it. 75 million people who voted to re-elect Donald Trump are happy. 60 million who did not (and the 20 million stuffed ballots) are unhappy. That is the story.
Democrats woke up Sunday morning shell-shocked. Chris Coons, who got in the Senate by letting Biden sniff his daughter's hair, called for a 9/11 commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol.
Wow.
No sane person puts what happened at the Capitol anywhere near the level of the tragedy of a sneak attack that killed nearly 3,000 people. Then again, no sane person allows Joe Biden within 50 feet of his pre-teen daughter.
Still, Democrats and their minions in the media cling to this ridiculous notion that there was an insurrection at the Capitol.
The American people did not like the storming of the Capitol, sure. They also don't like the impeachment. Half the people did not like that he was impeached, and the other half do not like that he was acquitted.
This was a lose-lose proposition for Democrats. Republicans skate. Donald Trump laughs.
But the tone-deaf New York Times wrote, "The vote stands as a pivotal moment for the party Mr. Trump molded into a cult of personality, one likely to leave a deep blemish in the historical record. Now that Republicans have passed up an opportunity to banish him through impeachment, it is not clear when — or how — they might go about transforming their party into something other than a vessel for a semiretired demagogue who was repudiated by a majority of voters."
Ah, concern trolling by the Times. It never gets old.
The Associated Press reaction put the Times to shame. It outright lied.
The AP said, "After he incited a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last month..."
He was acquitted. Apparently besides capitalizing black but not white, AP also believes acquittal means guilt.
Politico reported, "Democrats did a victory lap in defeat, pointing to the seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict. And Republicans face a future haunted by a damaged ex-president who won’t go away."
If Democrats truly are doing a victory lap, then they are daft. They lost because they could not send boxloads of votes to the Senate at 3 a.m.
Over on the Island of Misfit Never Trumpers, the fury was unsound. The Bulwark reported, "Today’s vote to acquit Donald Trump was a disgraceful act of partisan cowardice."
Never Trumpers are sad because they will never regain influence in the Republican Party. They blame Donald Trump. I credit him for exposing their insincerity about conservatism, They opposed his every action including moving the embassy to Jerusalem, an act which brought peace to the Middle East.
The media spin right now is the Democrat Establishment spin that this hurt Donald Trump.
Beneath that veneer of sneer is the reality that Democrats are off to a terrible start. They bet on another impeachment and they lost again.
They were in a precarious position to begin with. Even with boxes of Biden votes dumped in the wee hours, Democrats barely pulled off the presidential election. They will go into the midterm election next year tied in the Senate and only a 10-seat lead in the House. History says Republicans have a great chance of regaining both houses of Congress in 2022, especially as Covid Year II kills the economy as the victims of the unnecessary lockdowns spend their life savings to stay alive.
But we shall see how that works out.
Instead of working with Republicans to advance his agenda, Chairman Xiden is following Obama's take-no-prisoners approach of passing legislation without even a single Republican vote.
I hope they keep it up because in his first midterm, Obama cost Democrats 7 Senate seats and 63 seats in the House.
While Republicans lost control of the House in Donald Trump's midterm, they also gained 2 Senate seats. That is unusual.
I told a woman who does not follow politics he was acquitted. She laughed and laughed.
Democrats fell in love with impeachment. It became their undoing. Power corrupts. The brain is the first thing to go.
Donald John Trump sails into history as the first president to be impeached twice.
History will record that he beat the rap twice. No matter how hard and how often Democrats spin it, the final outcome is all that matters.
And Donald Trump and his supporters get the last laugh.
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