Each move appears more desperate than the one before. Daniel Henninger – WSJ 10/23/2019 Nancy Pelosi had the Democrats’ impeachment strategy right the first time: Don’t do it. But apparently even a lifetime in the mud-filled trenches of politics wasn’t enough to toughen the House speaker against the Democratic left’s compulsion to impeach Donald Trump.
WSJ 10-26-2019 Democrats want to impeach Donald Trump for inviting Ukraine to investigate 2020 election rival Joe Biden. But then why are they opposed to investigating whether Democrats used Russian disinformation to get the FBI to investigate Donald Trump in 2016? That’s the double standard now on gaudy public display over multiple news reports that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the... Read more
I post this in its entirety; it would be a shame if readers were caused to miss the logic and breadth of the content.
WSJ 10/2/2019 Washington is in an impeachment frenzy, which is a dangerous moment for facts and context. A classic example is the political and media overreaction to Monday’s stories concerning Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr and impeachment. Mr. Pompeo’s alleged misdeed is that he was among those listening to Mr. Trump’s July 25 telephone call with Ukraine... Read more
WSJ 10/3/2019 Daniel Henninger As the Trump impeachment narrative descends into the familiar bog of incomprehensibility, some guidance: Do not confuse Ukraine with Ukrainia. Ukraine is a real country. Ukrainia is an imaginary place created by the national Democratic Party and the Washington press corps. It was probably inevitable that after 2½ years of the Trump presidency, the Democrats and the press would... Read more
The video clips in the link are even more graphic. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) speaking on the House floor, Dec. 18, 1998: Today the Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness but impeaching him with a vengeance. In the investigation of the president, fundamental principles which Americans hold dear—privacy, fairness, checks and balances—have been seriously violated. And why? . . . We... Read more
