Well, today’s the day. Democrats in the House are actually going to go through with it. They are going to impeach President Trump – on the flimsiest of grounds – alleged obstruction of Congress, and alleged abuse of power. What a crock.
For months they’d been throwing around accusations that the president had committed a crime – in fact a high crime or misdemeanor, like treason or bribery. For about a week there, every other word out of their mouths was bribery, bribery, bribery. But now, when the rubber meets the road, they backed off, because there’s absolutely no evidence that the President committed a crime, any crime.
Obstruction of Congress? That’s pretty much what the three branches of government do with each other all the time. In civics classes they call it “checks and balances.” It’s the way our founding fathers baked into the system a safeguard, so no branch, legislative, executive, or judicial, got too powerful.
In this case, the Democrats claim that after they took over the House, President Trump refused to turn over documents they wanted, and ordered his staff not to testify before the committees Democrats now controlled. What Democrats should’ve done, was to take their grievance to the third branch of government, the judicial branch, (the refs) and got a ruling. If they prevailed in court, Trump likely would have complied with the order (like Nixon did.) Instead, they decided to just impeach him. Big mistake, in my view.
But then they’ve been looking for an excuse to impeach this president since he was first elected. Now they’ve fabricated one. They’ll satisfy their most partisan base. But I believe they’ll alienate much of the rest of the country, and pay a high price in the next election. We’ll see.
After the President is impeached by the House, the matter will head over to the Senate for trial. Republicans are in the majority there, and due to the wafer-thin evidence against the President, I’m quite confident President Trump will be acquitted there, and the whole thing will be dismissed. (It takes a 2/3 vote to remove a president from office.)
Anyway, those are my thoughts. We’ll see how this all plays out over time.