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From
The National Review:
While people were still scratching their heads over all of that, the
Democrats then suddenly decided to back off the bribery charge
altogether, as their evidence didn’t meet the standard for bribery under
U.S. law. Instead, they voted to impeach the president for (1) abuse of
power on the basis of “almost bribery” and (2) obstruction of Congress
for asserting executive privileges that any president would have
asserted, and which were so compelling that the Democrats were afraid to
challenge them in court.
The House thus sent to the Senate two articles of impeachment that
struck many Republican senators as an abject failure to prove any sort
of impeachable offense. The general impression among Republicans, quite
apart from what they might think of the president personally, was that
the Democrats were turning the whole impeachment proceeding into a
circus in which the chief entertainment was their own incompetence and
mendacity.
You could agree with their argument only if you already believed that
the president’s conduct was impeachable before hearing any of the
evidence. And there was only one Republican senator in that camp — Mitt
Romney, the last remaining champion of your grandfather’s Republican
Party. Even he voted against the Democrats’ absolutely preposterous
obstruction-of-Congress charge.
At this point, thinking people on the Democratic side should have
perceived the fatal weakness of their argument, namely that it
presupposed the very proposition to be proved. Amazingly, however, there
has been almost no self-reflection on their side. They appear to have
collectively dismissed even the possibility that their failure to remove
the president was due to the weakness of their case. Instead, Democrats
are now saying that if you found their case for impeachment
unconvincing, you must not have any standards and would let the
president get away with anything. One’s spirits sink. The assertion is
so wrong at so many levels, one knows not where to begin to set them
right. (Read more.)
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When a group believes that only they have the right to be right, then here is nothing left for the rest of us but to be eternally wrong. However, since we 'Deplorables' are not as dumb as they want to believe, we cannot be manipulated in that way. Actually, some rich old white guy land owners way back when came up with the concept of rights in the first place. In truth nothing and no one on this planet have the right to anything. From the lowest weed to the most majestic tree, from the lowest life form to the most brilliant life form, each must scramble and scrabble to survive. The first life form on this planet was not given the right to survive. So, 'Rights' are a made up concept and Democrats, Republicans, etc. etc., have no 'right' to shove their 'rights' down our throats.
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