ANN COULTER: Article I: Remove this beast from my sight! – MDJOnline.com
Posted: December 21, 2019 at 9:50 am
In the history of politics, there is no precedent for the medias entire focus to be on undoing the last presidential election.
True, the left has wanted to impeach every Republican president, but at least they used to wait a decent interval between the inauguration and concocting some preposterous impeachable offense.
With Trump, its never been about anything hes done. Its him they cant stand. The technical grounds for their impeachment is: REMOVE THIS MONSTER FROM MY SIGHT!
The left has gone from literally shaking on election night 2016, to literally shaking at Trump firing the FBI director (a.k.a. his employee), to literally shaking at Trump engaging in foreign policy.
On cable news, theyre still talking about Trumps Russia, if youre listening joke.
U.S. media: Proud not to get a joke.
The media pretend the president engaging in standard foreign policy is a big constitutional crisis. It is, but not the way they mean.
As explained in the seminal book on impeachment, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, impeachment is not for policy disputes. Thats why, in any five-minute span on cable TV, you will hear someone say that James Madison expressly rejected maladministration as a ground for impeachment at the Constitutional Convention. Otherwise, he said, so vague a term would mean the president could serve only at the pleasure of the Senate.
This isnt a random quote, selectively plucked from the convention notes. Its the entire point of our country.
In Great Britain, impeachments were used as a weapon against a king whose veto Parliament could not override. Impeachment was often the only way members of Parliament could express themselves on policy matters. They couldnt block the kings policies, but they could impeach his ministers for giving him bad advice.
As history buffs will recall, we fought a revolution to get rid of the king. No king and Congress has plenty of tools for stymieing a presidents agenda and pushing their own, such as that thing thats completely slipped their minds: enacting legislation.
Moreover, the president, unlike a king, would not govern by divine right, but by the consent of the people. Staging impeachments over policy disagreements is a logical absurdity under our Constitution.
Worse, the Democrats are impeaching Trump over his foreign policy, nearly the exclusive province of the commander in chief.
To be extra clear that they dont care about the Constitution much less the Founding Fathers, whom they keep solemnly invoking the Democrats second article of impeachment against Trump is for obstruction of Congress. That is pretty much his job. How about impeaching a president for ordering a surprise military attack or appointing members of his Cabinet?
The Constitution gives each of the three branches devices to oppose the others. Congress can issue subpoenas, and the president can claim executive privilege. Then a court probably the Supreme Court will decide who wins.
Democrats have spent three years doing nothing but trying to obstruct the president. Theyre indignant, scribbling up articles of impeachment because he refuses to help them obstruct him.
The Supreme Court just took a case that will decide whether Trump can obstruct a House Committee from subpoenaing his financial records. So now its not just the executive branch, but the judicial branch, thats obstructing the almighty, shall-not-be-defied legislative branch. I guess the House will have to impeach the Supreme Court, too.
At least theyre not wasting time passing any laws. That will save us the embarrassment of the House impeaching the president for vetoing a bill.
In an attempt to prove the wide acceptance of their insane ideas about impeachment, the media keep telling us that, as Mike Murphy put it, if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump. (In his defense, Murphy also thought Jeb! was going to be president.)
Murphys non-disprovable smear has been repeated all over by E.J. Dionne at a Brookings Institute forum, on cable news shows, and in several articles in The New York Times just in the last week.
This drop-the-mic charge is one of most cynical and anti-democratic arguments you will ever hear. Its rolled out as if its argument for impeachment, when in fact its an argument against.
The secret vote claim is the precise reason these people should never be anywhere near power not even with a White House tour group. They think a presidential phone call should be broadcast on Netflix, but a senator should only vote in private, like having sexual relations.
Im to vote in full view of the public? Oh, how awful!
Yes, Im quite certain that most politicians would love to do things differently if only they could be rid of the pesky rabble looking over their shoulders. I just didnt think theyd be stupid enough to admit it.
Ann Coulter is the writer of 12 best-selling books,
including In Trump We Trust.
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