“This morning Iran’s master terrorist is dead. The architect and chief engineer of the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism has been removed from the battlefield at the hand of the united states military.”
https://limbaugh2020.com/iran-and-peace-in-middle-east-it-was-job-1-for-jared-kushner/
https://limbaugh2020.com/old-donald-trump-tweets-are-the-nostradamus-of-irony/
“Now, Mr. President, on an entirely different matter, of course we also anticipate that another totally different, very serious item will be heading the senate’s way soon. The senate will have to address some of the deepest institutional questions contemplated by our constitution. We’ll have to decide whether we’re going to safeguard core governing traditions or let short-term partisan rage overcome them.”
“Back in December i explained how house Democrats’ splint into the most rushed — sprint into the most rushed, least fair and least thorough impeachment inquiry in American history has jeopardized the foundations of our system of government.”
“Last spring Speaker Pelosi told the country, quote, impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path. That was the speaker less than a year ago.”
https://limbaugh2020.com/how-to-win-an-argument-with-maga-bidens/
https://limbaugh2020.com/who-had-ukraine-in-the-reason-trump-will-be-impeached-pool-i-didnt/
“Back in 1998 when Democrats were busy defending President Clinton, Congressman Jerry Nadler said, there must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported bid one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other. Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy, said Congressman Jerry Nadler 20 years ago. That was obviously the standard when a Democrat was in the White House.”
https://limbaugh2020.com/how-to-win-an-argument-with-maga-trade-deals/
“But ultimately house Democrats cared more about attacking President Trump than keeping their promises.”
https://limbaugh2020.com/white-houses-kudlow-22-5-trillion-debt-is-not-a-huge-problem/
“So, they rushed through a slapdash investigation. They decided not to bother with the standard legal processes for pursuing witnesses and evidence. They don’t have time to do that. Chairman Adam Schiff told the entire country on national television that getting a court decision takes a long time. He didn’t want to wait. Takes a long time to go to court. So they just plowed ahead, plowed right ahead, with an historically weak case and impeached a duly elected president with votes from just one — just one — political party.”
“The Democrats have left Trump derangement syndrome directly for a kind of partisan fever had that our founding fathers were afraid of.”
“And then, Mr. President, just before the holidays, this sad spectacle took another unusual turn. As soon as the partisan impeachment votes had finished, the prosecutors began to develop cold feet. Instead of sending the articles to the senate, they flinched. They flinched. That’s right. The same people who just spent weeks screaming that impeachment was so serious and so urgent that it couldn’t wait for due process now decided it would wait indefinitely while they checked the political whims and looked for new talking points.”
https://limbaugh2020.com/you-can-read-the-mueller-report-for-free/
“looked for new talking points.”
“This is another situation where house Democrats have blown right past the specific warnings of our founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton specifically warned about the dangers of a, quote, procrastinated determination of the charges. In an impeachment. He explained it would not be fair to the accused and it would be dangerous for the country.”
In Federalist No. 69, Alexander Hamilton described impeachment essentially as a release valve from another “crisis of a national revolution.” He and other Founders grappled with how best to execute such a check, and eventually they settled on the system we have today.
Why was impeachment so important to the Founders
To understand the Founders’ rationale for impeachment first requires an examination of their feelings about the presidency. Hamilton (yes, that one) actually wanted a more robust chief executive, but he did realize there needed to be some check on their power. That’s why he would argue in The Federalist Papers for why impeachment should be included in the Constitution.
According to preeminent Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow, Hamilton was trying to protect the country from someone with demagogic tendencies. “From the outset, Hamilton feared an unholy trinity of traits in a future president — ambition, avarice and vanity,” Chernow wrote last month in The Washington Post.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/18/779938819/fractured-into-factions-what-the-founders-feared-about-impeachment
“procrastinated determination of the charges.“
Would it have been desirable to have composed the court for the trial of impeachments, of persons wholly distinct from the other departments of the government? There are weighty arguments, as well against, as in favor of, such a plan. To some minds it will not appear a trivial objection, that it could tend to increase the complexity of the political machine, and to add a new spring to the government, the utility of which would at best be questionable. But an objection which will not be thought by any unworthy of attention, is this: a court formed upon such a plan, would either be attended with a heavy expense, or might in practice be subject to a variety of casualties and inconveniences. It must either consist of permanent officers, stationary at the seat of government, and of course entitled to fixed and regular stipends, or of certain officers of the State governments to be called upon whenever an impeachment was actually depending. It will not be easy to imagine any third mode materially different, which could rationally be proposed. As the court, for reasons already given, ought to be numerous, the first scheme will be reprobated by every man who can compare the extent of the public wants with the means of supplying them. The second will be espoused with caution by those who will seriously consider the difficulty of collecting men dispersed over the whole Union; the injury to the innocent, from the procrastinated determination of the charges which might be brought against them; the advantage to the guilty, from the opportunities which delay would afford to intrigue and corruption; and in some cases the detriment to the State, from the prolonged inaction of men whose firm and faithful execution of their duty might have exposed them to the persecution of an intemperate or designing majority in the House of Representatives. Though this latter supposition may seem harsh, and might not be likely often to be verified, yet it ought not to be forgotten that the demon of faction will, at certain seasons, extend his sceptre over all numerous bodies of men.
“Speaker Pelosi apparently does not care. Her congress is behaving exactly like the, quote, in temperament or designing majority in the house of representatives that Hamilton warned might abuse the impeachment power. So, as House Democrats continue their political delay, they’re searching desperately for some new talking points to help them deflect blame for what they’ve done. We’ve heard it claimed that the same house Democrats who botched their own process should get to reach over here into the senate and dictate our process.”
The delay is caused by your non-committal to witnesses and documentation. We know your history, can we say Obama’s Federal Judges and Merrick Garland appointments?
https://limbaugh2020.com/trumps-judges-are-white-male-incompetent-bigots/
“Democrats who botched their own process should get to reach over here into the senate and dictate our process. “
“We’ve heard claims that it’s a problem that I’ve discussed trial mechanics with the white house. Even as my counterpart, the democratic leader, is openly coordinating political strategy with the speaker who some might call the prosecution. So. it’s okay to have consultation with the prosecution but not apparently with the defendant.”
“Oh, and we’ve heard claims that any senators who have formed opinions about house Democrats’ irresponsible and unprecedented actions as they played out in the view of the entire nation should be disqualified from the next phase. Obviously, Mr. President, this is nonsense, nonsense.”
“Let me clarify senate rules and senate history for those who may be confused. First, about this fantasy that the Speaker of the House will get to hand-design the trial proceedings in the Senate, that’s obviously a nonstarter. What I’ve consistently said is pretty simple. The structure for this impeachment trial should track with the structure of the Clinton trial.”
“We have a precedent here. That means two phases. First, back in 1999, the senate passed a unanimous bipartisan resolution 100-0 that set up the initial logistics like briefs, opening arguments, and senator questions. It stayed silent on mid trial questions such as witnesses until the trial was actually under way. That was approved 100-0.”
“Somewhat predictably, things started to diverge along party lines when we considered those later procedural questions, but the initial resolution, laying out the first half of the trial, was approved 100-0. I believe we should simply repeat that unanimous bipartisan precedent at this time as well. That’s my position.”
“President Trump should get the same treatment that every single senator thought was fair with President Clinton. Just like 20 years ago. We should address mid trial questions such as witnesses after briefs, opening arguments, senator questions, and other relevant motions.”
“Fair is fair. Now, let’s discuss these lectures about how senators should do our jobs. The oath that senators take in impeachment trials to, quote, do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, end quote, has never meant that senators should wall themselves off from the biggest news story in the nation and completely ignore what the house has been doing. The oath has never meant that senators check all of their political judgment at the door and strip away all of our independent judgment about what is best for the nation.”
It has never meant that, and it never could. The framers debated whether to give the power to try impeachments to a court or to the senate. And decided on the senate precisely because impeachment is not a narrow legal question. Impeachment is not a narrow legal question. But a deeply political one as well. Hamilton said this explicitly in Federalist 65.
” Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel CONFIDENCE ENOUGH IN ITS OWN SITUATION, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an INDIVIDUAL accused, and the REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, HIS ACCUSERS? “
“Impeachment requires the senate to address both legal questions about what has been proved and political questions about what the common good of our nation requires. Senators do not cease to be senators just because the house sends us Articles of Impeachment. Our job remains the same — to represent our states, our constituents, and our nation’s best interests in the great matters of our time. That is our obligation, whether we are voting on legislation, nominations, or the verdict in an impeachment.”
“20 years ago, I would add, Democrats understood all this very well. President Clinton had obviously committed an actual felony. President Clinton had actually committed a felony. If Democrats actually believed in the narrow sense of impartiality that they have now adopted as a talking point, then every single one of them would have voted to remove President Clinton from office. Oh, no, but instead, a majority of the senate decided that removing President Clinton, despite his proven and actual crimes, would not best serve the nation. Mr. President, they made a political judgment. And by the way, back then, leading Democrats had zero, zero objections to senators speaking out before the trial.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised Thursday night that Republicans will remain in lockstep with the White House on messaging strategy once impeachment proceedings reach the senate.
“Everything I do during this I’m coordinating with the White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this,” the Kentucky Republican said.
McConnell met privately with White House counsel Pat Cipollone on Thursday to discuss the next phase of the impeachment process.
“The current democratic leader, Senator Schumer, was running for the senate during the house impeachment process back in 1998. He voted against the articles both in the house judiciary committee and on the house floor , and a major part of his senate campaign that year — listen to this — has literally promising New Yorkers in advance , in advance that he would vote to acquit President Clinton. People asked if it was appropriate to him to prejudge like that. He dismissed the question, saying, quote, this is not a criminal trial.”
” When I look at where we’re headed here, I think there are sort of three levels of argument. The level we addressed yesterday was dispositive for me and for some of us, and that is, that even if you assume all of Mr. Starr’s facts to be true and that the president did wrong, however one would define that wrong, it does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and doesn’t merit impeachment. I think that case was made very well yesterday by the first panel.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/4thpaneltext120998.htm
“But something the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics. That was the democratic leader in the 1998 senate campaign. That was a newly sworn in Senator Schumer in 1999. A few weeks later, during the trial itself, Democratic senator Tom Harkin successfully objected to the use of the word jurors to describe senators because the analogy to a narrow legal proceeding was so inappropriate, according to Senator Harkin.”
“Again, the conduct, I want to point out, of Ken Starr does not excuse the behavior of the President but has everything to do with our perspective on the case and how we approach it, how we weigh our decision. We are not jurors, we are judges and the supreme Court of Impeachment, which has some of the elements of a court of equity. If somebody approaches this court, they better do it with clean hands.”
How was Harkin wrong?
“So, look, Mr. President, I respect our friends across the aisle, but it appears that one symptom of trump derangement syndrome is also a bad case of amnesia. A bad case of amnesia. And no member of this body needs condescending lectures on fairness from house Democrats who just rushed through the most unfair impeachment in modern history or lectures on impartiality from senators who happily prejudged the case with President Clinton and simply changed their standards to suit the political whims.”
“Look, anyone who knows American history or understands the Constitution knows that a senator’s role in an impeachment trial is nothing, nothing like the job of jurors in the legal system. The very things that make the senate the right forum to settle impeachment would disqualify all of us in an ordinary trial. All of us would be disqualified in an ordinary trial. Like many Americans, senators have paid great attention to the facts and the arguments that house Democrats have rolled out publicly before the nation. Many of us personally know the parties involved on both sides. Look, this is a political body. We do not stand apart from the issues of the day. It is our job to be deeply engaged in those issues. But — and this is critical — the senate is unique by design.
https://limbaugh2020.com/december-1-2019-trumps-lawyer-writes-another-letter-i-respond-again/
https://limbaugh2020.com/december-1-2019-trumps-lawyer-writes-another-letter-i-respond-again/
“The framers built the senate to provide a check against short-termism, the runaway passions, and he demon of factions that Hamilton warned would extend this scepter over the house of representatives at certain seasons. We exist because the founders wanted an institution that could stop momentary hysterias and partisan passions from damaging our republic. An institution that could be thoughtful, be sober, and take the long view, and that is why the constitution puts the impeachment trial in this place. Not because senators should pretend, they are uninformed, unopinionated, or disinterested in the long-term political questions that an impeachment of the president poses, but precisely because we are informed, we are opinionated, and we can take up these weighty questions.”
“A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself. The prosecution of them, for this reason, will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. In many cases it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.”
“That is the meaning of the oath we take. That is the task that lies before us. Impartial justice means making up our minds on the right basis. It means putting aside purely reflexive partisanship and putting aside personal relationships and animosities. It means coolly considering the facts the house has presented and then rendering the verdict that we believe is best for our states, our constitution, and our way of life.”
“It means seeing clearly not what some might wish the House of Representatives had proven, but what they actually have or have not proven. It means looking past a single news cycle to see how overturning an election would reverberate for generations. So, look, you better believe senators have started forming opinions about these critical questions over the last weeks and months. We sure have. Especially in light of the precedent-breaking theatrics that house Democrats chose to engage in.”
“But here’s where we are, Mr. President. Their turn is over. They’ve done enough damage. It’s the Senate’s turn now to render sober judgment as the framers envisioned. But we can’t hold a trial without the articles. The senate’s own rules don’t provide for that. So, for now, we are content to continue the ordinary business of the Senate while House Democrats continue to flounder. For now. But if they ever muster the courage to stand behind their slapdash work product and transmit their articles to the senate, it will then be time for the united states senate to fulfill our founding purpose.”
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