Back to the Impeachment Hypocrisy

Let's start with this. The House went into impeachment hearings all bound and determined to prove "quid pro quo" which turned into "bribery" and ended up with "abuse of power" as well as "obstruction of Congress". In other words, they didn't start legitimate hearings to investigate an actual criminal action. Rather, they opened "impeachment hearings" so that they could come up with a justification for the forgone conclusion that they wanted to impeach Trump for "something". They missed on the Russian conspiracy angle and that left the idea that there was something wrong in Ukraine. They just couldn't put their fingers on exactly what it was, and apparently they just needed to figure out what polled well.

The problem (as pointed out by legal scholar after legal scholar) is that "abuse of power" is not an easy to define concept (or easy to justify removing a President over) and that they are largely responsible for their own "obstruction of justice".

With abuse of Power, they are basically arguing that the President used his legal authority to set the terms and conditions for the release of foreign aid to Ukraine, but that he did so with some sort of "corrupt intent". They can only accuse him of intent because the underlying allegations didn't actually happen. Of course, they cannot actually prove the intent, but can provide plenty of opinions, speculation, and opinions regarding hearsay speculations from anti-Trump diplomats who worked in the State Department that point to this corrupt intent for something that never actually happened.

In regards to "obstruction", this is quite "literally" an issue with timing. The Democrats set an artificial date for their impeachment hearings to be completed, and they want to charge the President with a crime because some of the Administration officials asked the court for guidance and Democrats didn't have enough time (apparently) to either allow this to play out or to actually subpoena the other witnesses they claim they want to hear from.

So in the future, the House of Representatives could start a Presidential impeachment hearing on Monday and set Friday as their completion date. They can then demand all the witnesses show up that same week, and if any of them refuse, well then they can just impeach the President for "obstruction". If that sounds ridiculous, it shouldn't. It's literally the same logical concept the Democrats are using here (with just a longer time frame).

Now they realize that the "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress" didn't really poll well either. We have now seen the release of six polls in a row that fail to show a plurality of support for impeachment and you have to go back to the end of October to find one with "majority support" (51% or higher). The longer this goes on in the House, the more people lose interest. Likely because they simply spent most of the time interviewing people in private and there apparently were not enough compelling witnesses for them to continue any more public hearings. Their three against one legal expert showdown was a flop and probably lost them more support.

So they are now starting to make the argument that it's up to the Senate to dig deeper for them, because there has to be "more" out there if they could just get to it. There is even talk of requesting additional information from the old "Mueller Investigation" in order to just sort of "pile on" some additional nonsense on top of the nonsense that they are currently slopping around.

They literally want Mitch McConnell to go to bat for their impeachment efforts, and they are feinting outrage at the idea that the President will be allowed to be an active participant in his own impeachment hearing. Apparently the idea that the Senate GOP and a GOP President might coordinate their efforts is some sort of scandal (as is the President being allowed to put on his own defense). After spending the entire impeachment process demanding that as the House Majority Party that they could control every aspect of the impeachment hearings (going so far as to redefine impeachment as a political process that does not require any criminal wrongdoing), the Democrats are now complaining that McConnell and the GOP Senate is not wanting to play by their rules.

Hypocrisy is truly the bedrock of liberalism...