Week of 03/18/2019

Speaker Pelosi’s Failure To Impeach Fails America And Enables Trump
– by David Matthews 2

The hardest part this commentator has about being proven right is that the universe refuses to acknowledge it.

For quite some time now, this commentator has warned that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi would never allow Narcissist President Donald Trump to be impeached if she were allowed to become Speaker of the House again.

This is from my column in April of 2018...

No, I don’t believe that Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi would allow Trump to be impeached should she become Speaker of the House again.  I know this because she’s done this the first time she became Speaker.  With allegations of violating federal laws being floated about, then-Speaker Pelosi said arrogantly that “impeachment is off the table” when it came to the White House under President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

She said it then, and I believe she would say it again should she become Speaker again under Trump’s kakistocric rule.

And now once-again Speaker Pelosi from March 11^th 2019’s Washington Post Magazine...

I’m not for impeachment. This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.

I await the words of “You were right, David”, but I know I will probably never hear them.  The human race suffers from so much cognitive dissonance that it cannot handle me being right about anything, never mind this.

And I really should not be surprised that she did this.  I warned you that she would.

I warned you.

I warned you.

I warned you.

And you still refuse to accept it.

Even worse are the excuses that I am hearing to justify Pelosi’s refusal to impeach Narcissist Trump.

One person suggested that Pelosi didn’t “rule out” impeachment, just “put it away for now”.  Which part of the statement “I’m not for impeachment” did you not understand?

Someone else – with no grasp of the U.S. Constitution – said that Pelosi can’t impeach Narcissist Trump because the Senate will refuse to do their part.  Okay people, here’s your quick U.S. civics lesson: the House of Representatives has the responsibility to impeach the President.  It doesn’t matter which party is in charge of the Senate.  They can impeach Trump at any time, with or without the approval of the Senate.  Impeachment is to bring charges against the President.  It is the responsibility of the Senate to then try the President on those charges and decide whether to convict and remove the President on those charges.

Come one, people!  It’s only been twenty years since we’ve last been through this!

Oh, and your “fear of reprisals” if you can’t get that conviction?  What reprisals?

Let’s go back those twenty years.  You want to know why the GOP lost some of their power in the Congress in 1998?  It wasn’t because they impeached President Bill Clinton for lying about oral sex.  He wasn’t impeached until two months after the mid-term election!  The GOP nearly lost the Congress because Nutty Newt Gingrich was seen as shutting down the government because he was slighted on a trip on Air Force One.  Oh, and because the GOP was seen as a bunch of hypocrites for going after Clinton over sex while they had their own dalliances.

Go ahead, Nancy.  Spin up another hoax.  Just remember that I’ve been here almost as long as you have.

Then there’s the excuse that impeachment would be “too polarizing” and would “fragment the nation”.  Hello Pollyanna!  Where the hell have you been?

Get this into your skulls: America is *already* divided!  It is *already* splintered and polarized, fragmented into partisan factions.  It has been splintered and fragmented and divided and pulled apart thanks to a steady campaign of sabotage and propaganda from talk radio and Fox News and the extremist media groups.  That is how we ended up with Narcissist Trump in the White House.  And that is what Narcissist Trump has been doing for years.  He’s been pulling America apart, pitting parents against children, neighbors against neighbors, states against states, and thriving off the divisiveness.

That brings us to the other excuse used by Pelosi’s water-carriers... that they don’t want to distract from the 2020 Elections.  They’d rather focus on getting Trump out by the ballot box instead of the Constitution.

This has been the fatal flaw of the Democrats and why they continue to be failures.  They are always talking about “the next election”.  Never on what is going on right now.  Never on what is right or what is decent or what is proper.  It is always about “the next election”.  Always. 

But we are getting closer to the truth.  It’s really not about the Democrats.  It’s about Nancy Pelosi.  She needs Trump to be the enemy to keep the Democrats in line as well as keep herself in office.  It’s about power.  She is a power-monger.  That’s how she manages to stay in office and stay in control of the Democrats.

And you know what?  I think Narcissist Trump knows this.  That’s why he doesn’t have a cute but demeaning nickname for her like he does for everyone else.  He doesn’t have to mock her because he can count on her to do exactly what she is doing now.

Let’s get brutally honest here... Speaker Nancy Pelosi has failed America!  Her steadfast refusal to impeach Narcissist Trump not only betrays her responsibility as Speaker of the House under the U.S. Constitution, but it also plays right into Trump’s hands.

As long as Pelosi refuses to bring articles of impeachment against Trump, she is enabling and emboldening him, allowing him to continue to operate without accountability.  That’s why he continues to do what he’s been doing.  He’s not afraid of reprisals because he knows Pelosi will never allow him to be impeached.

Pelosi did not have to come out and reject impeachment.  She could have kept quiet about it.  Let the newer Dems talk about it and throw it about.  Keep Trump and the GOP on their toes, always wondering if it could happen.  And rather than say “no”, say she’s “weighing all the options”.  Keep that fear in the back of Trump’s mind.  That’s what the GOP did previously.

And there is power in being able to impeach the sitting president, even when it doesn’t result in a conviction in the Senate.

There have been only two presidential impeachments in American history.  Bill Clinton in 1998 and Andrew Johnson in 1868.  Neither resulted in a conviction, but the impeachments themselves were a stain on their legacies.  Do you really think that Trump – who is obsessed with his own vainglory – would want that stain as part of his legacy?

That is what Speaker Pelosi is pissing away... and for what?  So she can stay in office for yet another term?  So she can dangle Trump on the campaign trail like the GOP dangle her as the straw opponent?

At some point – and that point is coming soon – Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats will have to choose between doing the right thing and doing the politically expedient thing.  The Democrats have failed to do the right thing in the past, which is why they are still the party of failure.  If they continue to follow that path, then Trump being re-elected will not be the only casualty.  We will all lose.