Impeachment Is Not A Parlor Game

I was out at a birthday celebration last night in Virginia Beach while House Democrats, led by the lady in black, were voting to impeach President Trump.

No one in my gregarious group ever mentioned impeachment. The TVs over the bar were set to the Virginia basketball game. No one was focused on Washington.

When I got home I checked Twitter. Sure enough, the president had been impeached. As predicted, every House Republican voted against this fools’ errand and three Democrats defected, voting against at least one of the articles. 

The first 100 percent partisan impeachment in history.

Yet anticlimactic.

We all knew this was coming. Democrats are consumed with hatred for this president. They’ve been agitating for impeachment since Election Night 2016, even before the so-called “resistance” stuck vagina hats on their heads and acted like crazies in the streets. Long before the phone call with the president of Ukraine.

Last night’s funereal clothing and phony somberness couldn’t mask what has happened. The far-left wing of the Democratic party gleefully pushed Nancy Pelosi down the impeachment path, even though there was never a chance that Donald Trump would be removed from office by the Senate.

Pure political theater.

But there is a new wrinkle. According to news reports, Pelosi may not send the articles of impeachment to the Senate in a timely manner or at all. Extremists In her party are threatening to withhold votes to do that, in hopes of forcing the Republican majority in the Senate to stage an exhaustive trial.

After a hyper-partisan vote to impeach, House members are now fretting that the trial in the Senate may not be fair?

Hilarious.

This move - if it comes to fruition - will show this impeachment process to be a farce and Democrats to be borderline insane. Their position seems to be that the president is such a danger to the country that he must be impeached and removed from office, but maybe not yet.

Yup, that’s a winner.

Someone needs to remind members of the House of Representatives that impeachment is not a parlor game. They’ve played their part and they don’t get to tell the Senate how to play theirs.

Dragging the second half of impeachment out for months - or forever - perhaps hoping to manufacture more presidential “crimes,” will do nothing but further divide and embitter the country.

A more cynical interpretation of these shenanigans would suggest the Democrats want to wait until Trump is re-elected and they perhaps gain control of the Senate to overturn the will of the unwashed.

Look, the House has had its fun. It needs to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate and get back to work.