IMPEACHMENT AND WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT

                                            
     By Florida Bill                        
                                             Stumbling and slurring her words, sanctimonious Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues on her ill-fated mission to bring down the nation's duly elected 45th President. But, she says that she still "prays for him." 
                                             Standing with Pelosi are her malleable point men in the House of Representatives--- the bug-eyed lying machine, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, and the hypocrite of record, "Fat Jerry" Nadler of New York.  Also out front in the impeachment effort are the screaming Trump-hater, Mad Maxine Waters and the flatulence-afflicted and mouthy Eric Swalwell, a Pelosi comrade from California.
                                             Every Democrat in the Democrat- controlled House, except for three, voted in favor of impeachment, and every Republican, joined by the errant Democrats, voted against impeachment. Shamefully, it was the most partisan act for impeachment in the history of the republic.  
                                            The case against the the President is contained in two feeble Articles of Impeachment.  One accuses the President of pressuring the president of Ukraine to do his (Trump's) bidding or suffer the loss of about $400 million in U.S. foreign aid; and the second Article asserts that the President abused his office by obstructing congress in its oversight duties.
                             The alleged Ukraine wrongdoing is a fantasy created by Democrats driven not by a duty to country, but because of a basic dislike and even raw hate for Republican Donald Trump who belittled, ran over and defeated Hillary Clinton for the high office three years ago. 
                             In neither article did the Democrats articulate and point to a crime committed by the President, or to any conduct in violation of a federal statute.   In Article Two, House accusers alleged that the President thumbed his nose at Congress  by declining to respond to subpoenas for documents from Trump or from members of his family, friends and administration, worded so as to invent something to show criminal behavior.
                            The inanity of Article Two is blind to the fact that the constitution empowers the President to exert executive privilege as a right, and if his detractors wish to prevail with their subpoenas, they must seek resolution from the federal court.  Pelosi's Democrats did not exercise that option, and the result is that Trump's order to ignore the subpoenas as part of a "hoax" and a phony "witch hunt" stands unchallenged. 
                            Article one accuses the President of pressuring  President Zelensky of Ukraine to do his (Trump's)  bidding and investigate former Vice President Biden and Biden's cocaine- addicted son, Hunter, or suffer the loss of $400 million in USA foreign aid. The allegation is grounded on a July 25, 2019, telephone call which Trump made to the Ukraine president  and became the subject of a so-called "Whistle Blower" complaint by an intelligence officer in the state department who was a close friend of  former Vice President Biden.
                           Despite weeks of hyping, and a televised House "inquiry" supervised by the disingenuous Schiff, an actual  transcript of the call was released for public consumption  by Trump and it showed that there was no "pressuring" spoken or insinuated by him.  The Democrat charge of a Trump "quid pro quo" went up in flames totally when the Ukraine president held a news conference in which he praised President Trump and confirmed that there was no "pressuring" of him  and that he was unaware that millions in foreign aid had any relevance to the conversation.
                           It would seem that Pelosi Democrats with a moral compass would have dropped the matter upon hearing from the Ukraine president, but they did not and instead disgraced themselves further by passing off to the "never Trump" media allegations that President Trump was guilty of "bribery" and "extortion," and then delighted as the false allegations were repeated on CNN, NBC and other Trump-hating stations.   
                           Pursuant to the Constitution, the voted Articles of Impeachment must be delivered to the Senate so that a trial can be held on the charges. But the misguided, teary-eyed Pelosi has elected instead to sit on the articles with a demand that she have a say in how the Senate proceeds with the trial of President Trump. She said that she would do nothing with the articles and accusations until later in January after congressmen return from celebration of the holidays. 
                             The constitution, along with abundant case law, gives to the Senate, the upper house of Congress, the total and sole authority in how an impeachment trial is to be conducted.  The House has no voice in determining the rules for the trial. There may or may not be witnesses testifying other than by those whose testimony during the "inquiry"powered the Articles  of Impeachment. 
                              President Trump has said that he favors a full trial in which his defenders would bring on witnesses to testify; and that those witnesses should include former Vice President Biden and his cocaine addicted son Hunter, who the President has called "stone-faced corrupt."    Other witnesses,  urged by the President and Republican congressmen, should include the Whistle blowing friend of Biden's, and fact witnesses, to include Adam Schiff who allegedly counseled  the whistle blower and and may have actually composed the formal complaint which was filed.     
                              The Senate would also have the option of examining the articles from a legal position, and could simply dismiss them for their failure to state a cause of action. If there is a trial, a finding of guilty would require a yes vote by two-thirds of the sitting 100 senators.    
                                

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Pelosi "Prays" for the President

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              By Florida Bill                              

                                   In Nancy Pelosi's recent news conference, she announced to the press that its full speed ahead, and that she has given the order to the Judiciary Committee chairman, Jerrold "Fat Jerry" Nadler  to draft Articles of Impeachment against the nation's 
45th President. 
                                  She had a sanctimonious aura about her as she informed the press and those listening in on television that impeachment would go forward.  It is with "confidence and humility" that I now speak to the need to take the president down in accord with the constitution.                
                                   But as she turned haughtily, and prepared to leave the stage,  Reporter James Warren, a tough, no-nonsense newsman for Sinclair TV, stopped her in her tracks with the question: "Speaker, do you hate the President?"  It was a rhetorical question for sure and Warren knew the answer.  If the 79-year-old Pelosi was a slave to honesty, she would have responded, "Yes, I do--and he ought to be in prison." 
                                 But telling the truth is not part of the Pelosi playbook, as her accusations that President Trump is a criminal and an  "imposter" who has violated his oath to the constitution are so disingenuous and far-fetched that her ability to be truthful about anything is suspect.  She is the first and only woman to serve as Speaker of the People's House and in that role she is the powerful, central figure in the completely partisan attack by Democrats on the Republican President. 
                                 But then, instead of exiting the platform in the face of Warren's question, Pelosi did an about face and exhibited an even more  sanctimonious face;  and then avowed that she does not "hate" the president..."Do not accuse me," she snapped.  She was raised a Catholic, she told the news reporters, and was taught not to hate anyone.  And in this case,  she does not "hate" the President.  She actually thinks of him every day and  "prays for him."  
                                 Though not hating him, she added:  "I think the president is a coward when it comes to helping our kids, who are afraid of gun violence." I think he is cruel when he doesn't deal with helping our Dreamers, of whom we are very proud.......and he denies climate change. She avoided saying that he belongs behind bars as she has said in the past.  
                                Her voice was low and a bit raspy as she poured out this political drivel, acting as though she was fighting her emotions. That teary-eyed drama is a technique often used by politicians trying to make a point, and to escape ridicule for embarrassing blunders. At that point, she turned her big gun on Warren and castigated him for his arrogance and for his daring to ask such an insulting question.   Acting as though she was  speaking to an underling in the great halls of Congress, she told the veteran reporter: "Don't mess around with me with those kind of words."  On that note, Pelosi turned and left the room. 
                                 Very likely that Warren, a veteran reporter that has been at odds with bureaucrats in the past, was not particularly moved by the emotions from the aged speaker whose overall political performance has been dismal and way too partisan for any capable leader. He observed to Pelosi that he was merely asking a legitimate question, and then made notes of her meltdown..  
                                                               The House with its 233 Democrats are expected to vote yes on impeachment of the President. All 197 Republicans in the chamber have said they will vote against impeachment.   The partisan effort runs contrary to two previous impeachment efforts by Congress.  With President Clinton, Republicans and Democrats voted in favor of impeachment.  President Nixon,  who resigned prior to formal action by the House, was facing bipartisan demands that he be impeached. 
                                  If the articles of Impeachment are voted, those charges will be sent to the Senate for trial and two thirds of that body, 66 senators, would be needed for a conviction. The Senate is controlled by the Republicans and acquittal of President Trump is regarded as a certainty.
                                  President Trump has called the entire impeachment attack on him a "hoax" and a political "witch hunt" pushed by Democrats " who have gone completely insane" because  Hillary Clinton was the loser in 2016.  President Trump's attorneys have said that if there is a trial, Republican defenders of the President are prepared to "mess around" with Democrats; and will  subpoena everyone with relevant information and that will include Congressmen Schiff and Nadler as well as former Vice President Biden and his cocaine addicted son, Hunter; and other lying   individuals in "the swamp" who participated in the disgraceful effort to attack a duly elected President. 
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