House Democrats Bail on a Legitimate "Impeachment Resolution" Vote - Granite Grok

House Democrats Bail on a Legitimate “Impeachment Resolution” Vote

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The notion that the US House was going to hold a formal vote to proceed with the impeachment of the President was short-lived. The new vote will be to authorizing moving from the illegal closed-door “hearings” to some sort of public hearings.

The vote is not to proceed with impeachment. It is to proceed with the investigation into delaying an actual vote as long as possible. Think, Mueller investigation. Waste time. Demand documents. Claim obstruction. Then do it again.

So, why not vote? Just draw a red line in the sand and say this is it!

If you read the transcript, you’ll know why. Like Russian Collusion, there’s no there there. We’ll get some B about Trump trying to fire envoys (a perfectly legitimate use of executive power). A lot of speculation and hearsay. And demands for documents or witnesses the Trump administration has no obligation to provide because the full House has not voted to proceed with formal impeachment.

Again, why?

Because there are a lot of Democrats in seats in the US House who will probably lose in 2020 if they go on the record for formal impeachment. Even New Hampshire’s rubber-stamp leftist Democrats Kuster and Pappas are not in a position to do more than say they’d support it. They can vote for hearings. More hearings. Resolutions. With whatever you think the media can run. But without formal articles of impeachment and a full vote of the house to proceed, it’s not legitimate.

At least that’s my understanding. 

So, if there is a vote, whatever it is, if Trump’s lawyers decide it’s not the real deal – and it won’t be – demands to provide privileged information and access will be denied. The Democrats will go back to the obstruction narrative, and the media will ride that donkey as far as it can to try and cover for the impending release of the IG report on FISA abuse. The Durham investigation. Or, the fact that the US House has done almost nothing with the time they’ve been given but waste it trying to make Trump look bad enough so that one of their crappy candidates for president has some small shot at winning in 2020.

And while I am a big fan of congress getting nothing done, we can all do ourselves a favor and vote all the Democrats out that we can. Trump says he wants to drain more swamp. Roll back regulations. Address the deficit. Finish the wall. Appoint a few more judges. Complete a few trade deals. Clean out the FBI and CIA of all the Obama hangers-on. Make some tax cuts permanent. And secure our affordable energy future.

Democrats will do the opposite if they can’t do more than what they are doing now.

Whatever the hell that is.

| Washington Examiner

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