June 8, 2019
We finally have found a knowledgable voice of reason. Harvard professor Lawrence Tribe (I read him in law school long, long ago) today offered a genius idea that will enrage and kerfuffle Trump to the point he devolves into a thin ooze that covers several square meters.
www.realclearpolitics.com/...
The Speaker needs to understand (and I am not sure she does which surprises and frightens me) that the House is the Senate's equal with its own sandbox where only its rules rule.
Today Tribe told the House to flip a stylish and discombobulating finger to Mitch by trying Trump all by itself. It will be a House-only affair with no room for turtles. Trump will be able to offer a defense but he will refuse to because you know, truth. "HOW!!!", you shout. "How is this magic possible"?
Tribe is the nation's pre-eminent expert on constitutional history. Non-lawyers (normal people) must understand that the law *is* history. What is done before is done again, and so Tribe's plan is constitutional and flight checked.
Tribe looked back to 1800, a time when the people who wrote the Constitution were just a phone call away. That year President John Adams ticked off the House bigly (does not matter why) and the House wanted to impeach biglier but those darn Federalist Senators would never vote to convict their buddy John. Stop me if you've heard this.
Nope, not stopping. The House held a trial, just like in a courthouse. They called witnesses, they admitted crinkly brownish paper full of ink blots. They passionately argued the case to the nation and to Federalist Congressmen. At the close they voted and made a decision on guilt or innocence and condemned Adams for crimes proved in the trial. After that they did nothing (for a while).
They did.not notify the Senate. They did not send 6 good men into the Senate to plead for justice. Justice already was served.
All this righteousness happened in the last year of Adam's term. In the fall he was waxed, buffed and put away. He was a shamed one-termer. He was rejected at the polls. He retired and lived 26 more years and died the same day as TJ. Wierd, huh?
Can you see the story now? Why the hell should Nancy give that miserable black hole of non-equity, Mitch the Turtleman the pleasure of spiking her efforts? The only reason I can name is a very important one but after praying on it I feel the risk must be taken. The Adam's Plan will not remove Trump from office and we will need to stay on the Idiot Train to Gabbagabbagulpland until Jan.20, 2021. Trump will need to be surveilled and God willing Patriots in his presence will place the people first in their minds over their idol or protectee.
We need to ride this train. We need to humiliate Trump on national TV every day until we're done. We need to wield our verdict like a artillery battalion, lobbing shells into the laps of Republican Senators like we were on the DMZ.
We have to FIGHT THEM AND TRUMP damn it. I have been a Democrat for 47 years which is at least 6 lifetimes. I have seen D's screw up their politics a good bit more than otherwise. When it happens it was weakness that did it because D's can't shut up and ride the bus.
We MUST do it right this time. The country is burning and we need the biggest fire drill since Vesuvius. We need to change how we operate, and quick. We need to create an impeachment committee now and let it do its work now, happy in the land of More Power Than a Regular Committee, duh Nancy. We cannot worry uselessly about things to come and understand that the people who will win us 2020 are now getting pissed off at us, justifiably. We need to gender-neutral up and save America. If we do not do this, it is much more likely that Trump will win and then we are doomed. You know this is true and Speaker Pelosi you must know it too, please.
On November 3, 2020 we will take a drink and have a toke and then implement our previously-designed plan (more work people!) to remove Trump 1/20/21 without starting a civil war.
Peace & Love kiddies