Trump Is
Not Clinton – Stop Comparing Impeachments
So it finally happened.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally pulled the trigger and began
the impeachment process against Narcissist President Donald Trump, starting
with the impeachment inquiry.
Let me start off by congratulating Speaker Pelosi for finally doing the right
thing. This commentator speculates that this
was something she really did not want to do, as she has conveyed in the
past that she abhors impeachment.
Especially since Narcissist Trump is the perfect enemy for Pelosi to use
for her campaigns both as a member of Congress and as Speaker of the House. As long as he is in office, Pelosi’s position
in both those categories is assured.
But, really, Speaker Pelosi had no choice in the matter now. With the revelations of Narcissist Trump
trying to influence a foreign power to investigate and thus damage the
reputation of a political rival, Pelosi could not let this stand, especially when
her base was screaming for impeachment.
Not acting
on the Muller Report and its supposed “roadmap to impeachment” was one thing. But this... a tactic that almost comes right
out of a Russian playbook... a tactic that screams despotism... this could not
be excused or dismissed.
So, congratulations, Speaker Pelosi, for having the ovaries to do your job.
That brings us to the matter of impeachment.
There are several
scripts being shoved down our gullets from Narcissist Trump’s enablers
trying to sabotage the process. These come
from so-called “political experts” and think-tank consultants to editorial
boards and political columnists, all of whom are peddling Narcissist Trump’s repeated
assertions that he did “nothing
wrong”, “nothing illegal”, “nothing previous presidents haven’t done”, or that there
is simply “nothing there”. This is
standard operating procedure with Narcissist Trump. Deny it, admit it, say there’s nothing wrong,
say there’s nothing illegal, say it’s been done by everyone else, then say it’s
nothing and a made-up accusation. Lather,
rinse, repeat. Straight from the gospel
of the disgraceful hypocrite (and Trump
mentor) Roy Cohen.
Understand that right now, as of this article’s posting, the House of
Representatives is the inquiry stage of impeachment. Next come the hearings. Then come the articles of impeachment to be
considered and voted on. We are not “there”
yet. We may not even get “there”. There are so many ways this can come to a
halt, including having Narcissist Trump pull a Nixon and resign so he wouldn’t
have to be impeached. His ego may not
accept that, but
that does not mean that it is not a possibility.
But, for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that impeachment is
inevitable. Let’s suppose that those inquiries
and hearings come to articles of impeachment to be debated and voted on.
Obviously comparisons have been and will continue to be made with the GOP’s
impeachment
of President Bill Clinton in 1998. This
is part of the script to sabotage the impeachment process by claiming that any
attempt to remove Narcissist Trump from office would backfire on the Democrats
just like it did for the GOP with Clinton.
However, right from the onset, the only thing that these two impeachments
have in common is the word “impeachment”.
Let’s start with the facts.
Clinton was impeached in December of 1998 for the charge of lying under
oath about receiving oral sex from an intern and then obstructing justice. This was after the mid-term election of 1998,
in the middle of Clinton’s second and final term in office. The GOP knew that it was a salacious charge,
but they claimed they did it because of the “rule of law”. The House impeached Clinton, but the Senate failed
to get enough votes for a conviction.
We don’t know what sort of charges will come from the impeachment hearings
of Narcissist Trump yet. At the very
least, it’s extortion and obstruction of justice. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be more. Narcissist Trump violated the separation of
powers on more than one occasion. He claimed
an emergency for the sole purpose of redirecting funds for his
ego-wall. He is accused of violating the
Emoluments
Clause of the Constitution. The
Muller Report can be put into play as well, providing additional charges to be
considered. Robert Muller repeatedly said
that he could not indict a sitting president, but that his report set
the groundwork for impeachment hearings.
Well, that time would be now.
Everything in the Muller Report is now fair game.
Even if it was just the initial Ukraine accusation and obstruction, it
would be a felony criminal act – extortion – for political purposes. That is far more serious than lying under
oath over a sex act.
The GOP defended going through with the impeachment of Clinton over lying
about a sex act by saying it was all about the “rule of law”. Well if that was about the “rule of law”, why
are they now defending a blatant criminal act? Does the “rule of law” only apply to Democrat
politicians? Are the GOP immune to the
law now?
Clinton was impeached during the middle of his second and final term in
office. He was going to leave no matter
what. He could not run for a third
term. That may have played a role as to
why the Senate didn’t convict him.
Narcissist Trump, on the other hand, is still in his first term. He’s running for re-election, with challengers
in his own party in addition to the numerous Democrats vying to face him in
2020. There is no guarantee that he
comes out of impeachment any stronger than before. In fact, it could make the case stronger for one
of his challengers, especially from within his own party.
Then there is the matter of consequences.
The popular script says that the GOP paid a price for impeaching
Clinton. They almost lost their majority
status and they certainly lost their nutty speaker, Newt Gingrich. But, truth be told, that wasn’t the case. Clinton was impeached *after* the mid-term
elections, not before. The damage to the
GOP was already done before the articles of impeachment were even
considered. And Gingrich wasn’t forced
to step down because of the impeachment.
He was forced to step down because he made a promise about the mid-term
election results that went in the opposite direction. Basically, he lost a bet.
So what really happened after Clinton was impeached? The GOP won the 2000 Fiasco and their
position in Congress got stronger and stronger.
So much for the fantasy that impeachment has “negative consequences” for
the party that uses it. Let’s not also
forget that, even though he wasn’t impeached, Richard Nixon’s near-impeachment only
had negative consequences for his party, not the Democrats. Three words: President Jimmy Carter.
Let’s get brutally honest here... we need to stop comparing Narcissist
Trump’s possible impeachment with Clinton’s actual impeachment. The two have completely different
circumstances to them. Clinton’s impeachment
involved salacious activity. Trump’s possible impeachment has severe criminal implications. The party that impeached Clinton claimed “rule
of law”. The party that will possibly
impeach Trump will have an actual law to justify it.
There’s one more thing that needs to be made clear... even if impeachment
fails, it still would be a stain on Narcissist Trump’s tenure as President of
the United States. A stain that only two
other presidents have in the history of the United States, with one of those
two being “Hillary’s husband”. For a
self-promoting clown that continually boasts that he is the best and most
exemplary human being ever in everything that he does, being impeached is something
he will never be able to overcome. That
may be a far worse consequence for someone like him than just being removed
from office.
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