Now that it appears that Adam Schiff has given up on trying to create some narrative, any narrative (at least for the time being) that would make the President look bad, it is probably a good time to see where the Democrats are in their attempts to impeach the President overthrow the government of the United States. We are fairly sure that Schiff is done since Pelosi has sent different House Democrats out to the media to say that no more witnesses are needed. Of course, based on the presentations of the handpicked witnesses last week, more witnesses would probably just lead to uncovering more malfeasance by Democrats particularly in connection with Ukraine.
Despite media proclamations daily that some bombshell revelation was coming, no witness has testified to anything that even begins to approach an impeachable event. This is despite considerable planning and narrative creation by expert lawyers on the Democrats’ staff. And remember, these attorneys were hired last December to begin working on this. It was difficult if not near impossible to understand just where the Democrats were headed with their presentation of “evidence.” Perhaps that is because they had no evidence. The Democrats went from quid pro quo, to extortion, to bribery, back to quid pro quo and finally at the end starting mumbling about Russia again.
Sometime this week Adam Schiff will send a report over to Harold Nadler in the House Judiciary Committee (HJC). Undoubtedly the MSM will call the report “scathing” or some such nonsense as that. The MSM will claim that the Presidency of Donald J. Trump “hangs by a thread.” Various public figures on the left will opine that the only thing preventing the removal of the President over “clearly impeachable offenses” is the failure of Republicans to “do their duty.”
What is needed right now are the facts. Mollie Hemingway over at The Federalist has written a somewhat lengthy piece that does just that. It lays out the actual facts of what has transpired. It is worth the read.
With the likely conclusion of Rep. Adam Schiff’s impeachment proceedings, it’s worth taking a step back and looking at how things went for the majority Democrats and minority Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Democrats ideally would have started their inquiry with credible bipartisan support and run things in such a way that public opinion developed in their favor. Public opinion would build pressure on Republican members toward an impeachment vote that had even stronger bipartisan credibility.
That did not come even close to happening. To begin with, not only was the vote to begin proceedings not bipartisan, there was bipartisan opposition to it. Polling initially looked promising for impeachment, with media outlets attempting to claim significant bipartisan support for inquiry and removal, but then the polling moved in the wrong direction for Democrats.