McCarthy spot on!

Democrats in Congress and the media pretend to swoon over conduct they accepted when Obama did it.

But more to the point, the relationship of dependency intensified in 2015 due to the flight to Moscow of Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych. At that point, a new Ukrainian government more to the Obama administration’s liking, under President Petro Poroshenko, came to power. It was desperate for American help, financially and security-wise, which is why Vice President Biden was in a position to pressure it into firing the prosecutor who was conducting a corruption investigation of Burisma, the energy company that had appointed Hunter Biden to its board and was lavishly compensating him.

During the . . . early 2016 weeks when [Alexandra] Chalupa [a Ukrainian-American and DNC operative] was tapping her Ukrainian sources and giving Democrats a heads-up about a potential Manafort-Trump alliance, NABU [Ukraine’s anti-corruption] investigators and Ukrainian prosecutors journeyed to Washington. There, the Obama administration arranged for them to huddle with the FBI, the Justice Department, the State Department, and the White House’s National Security Council (agencies that coordinated frequently throughout the collusion caper).

Andrii Telizhenko, a political officer at Ukraine’s embassy in Washington, later told The Hill’s John Solomon that the U.S. officials uniformly stressed “how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united.” The officials also indicated to their Ukrainian counterparts that they were keen to revive the investigation of payments by Yanukovych’s ousted Party of Regions government to an American political consultant — i.e., the FBI’s Paul Manafort probe [that was reportedly closed without a recommendation of charges in 2014] . . .

See the way the game is played: When the Obama administration leans on Ukraine for help in an investigation of political opponents, the Democrats and the media say, “But look how corrupt Paul Manafort was!” When the Trump administration leans on Ukraine for help in an investigation of political opponents, the Democrats and the media say, “Abuse of power — impeach him!”

This has been one of the most disingenuous arguments I have seen. The whole "I would have condemned Obama had he done the same thing". The truth is that Obama could have gun down a group of school children in front of a row of cameras and the left and the media would have figured out a way to declare that the school children  had it coming.

The fact is that what Obama did was pretty much the same thing as what Trump is being accused of, with only difference being that the original investigation into Paul Manafort was not shut down for any political reasons. It was shut down (both in the U.S. and Ukraine) for lack of evidence of a crime. As it stands, a Democratic operative tied to Manafort was just acquitted in a DC court of much of the same thing that Manafort was convicted for, in spite of much of the evidence being exactly the same. So the Manafort situation either proves that the DC jury pool (of 95% Democrats) was out to get him, regardless of the evidence or that same jury pool was not going to find a Democrat guilty regardless of the evidence. Either way, politics played a bigger role than the facts in those cases.

So, yeah... Obama did the same thing as Trump and nobody from the left (or right) called for his impeachment. That's because prior to Trump being elected President, we were basically a country of adults. Now, half the country are crybaby toddlers who are still throwing a temper tantrum because the bad orange man won. They will look for any dishonest hypocritical reason to call for his removal of office.