When
It would be full of collusion with
The way the
At least that's what
What they offered weren't High Crimes and Misdemeanors. They didn't serve up alleged crimes. Instead, they offered only attitude and rhetoric, without meat and bone.
They promised everything and yet ended up providing nothing, like air sandwiches offered to feed that angry mob they've stoked since the day Trump infuriated them by not losing the election to
"I feel ... thin. Sort of stretched, like ... butter scraped over too much bread," said the plucky little Hobbit,
When
So, where has the impeachment gone, the impeachment that was promised?
But where were the serious crimes upon which to build a legitimate impeachment and convince
There are no crimes in this, only political arguments predicated on Trump's great sin:
He defeated Hillary with his 62 million deplorables, and the Democratic elites have hated him and them ever since.
The House Democratic impeachment of Trump does accomplish two things.
It drives independents to his side, even those who loathe his manner, his vulgarity and brutishness, because they see what the silkies of the left have done.
And it lowers the bar for impeachment, inviting some future
Every president has been accused of abusing power by a
And the obstruction of
If
Go to the courts to let the third co-equal branch of government decide. But
Yet there was real abuse of power in this story, which starts in that debunked
Abuse of power happened when Democratic presidential candidate and then-Vice President
Biden's son Hunter is a father's nightmare, a train wreck of a man. But the Ukrainian gas company
Hunter was
Per Obama,
"I said ... I'm leaving in six hours," Biden bragged on video. "If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a b----. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."
Quid. Pro. Quo.
So why were bribery and extortion removed from the
In liberal media accounts, Americans who see Trump Impeachment Theater as partisan hackery and farce are often belittled as morons. They're described as mindless idiots who've been sucked into the cult of Trump.
But constant media and political ridicule by the liberal elites can backfire, as it did here in working-class areas in 2016, and as it did just days ago in the
As it shrinks in stature, the House Democrat impeachment is beginning to resemble those much-hyped products that you find, forgotten and dusty, in the "As Sold on TV" aisle in dreary discount stores.
ShamWow,
Pull the Calming Comfort Blanket under your chin,
In another life, I trained for a career as a newspaper columnist by working as a butcher at my father's supermarket on
I carved roasts, boned out beef necks, chopped chickens and sliced lunch meat. Some customers wanted their sausage sliced thin enough to see right through.
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John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune who also hosts a radio show on WLS-AM.