They Can't Stop the Train Now

It's been announced that two Articles of Impeachment against President Trump will be drafted, voted on, and likely sent to the Senate.  Neither one alleges bribery, or "quid pro quo".  The charges are "abuse of power" and soliciting interference for an election that hasn't even started the primary process.  Not one witness observed evidence first hand.  Hearsay is not permitted in any court of law under United States jurisdiction but we are now finding out that it can be considered in a Congressional inquiry.

The odds of a Senate conviction are about half as likely as the Beatles getting back together, yet the House Democrats are going forward with this anyway.  There are two questions to ask.  One is "why?".  The other is "why not?"

Let's take the why.

One reason why they are doing this is because they can.  Another is that if they do this at this time for the reasons thus cited, they've lowered the bar for impeachable offenses......meaning that they can do this again if the first attempt fails.  Now I can observe that if they do this, that the Republicans at some future point can also retaliate in kind against a future Democratic President.  (Hold that thought, we'll get back to this).

The two reasons why listed above don't quite cover this.  A third reason is that Madame Speaker Pelosi can't stop the train.  The process was allowed to start to placate that wing of the party that has been hijacked by "the Squad" and their followers.  Speaker Pelosi doesn't have the tight grip on her caucus that other Speakers and party leaders have had.  Their dam started cracking when they regained power and all attempts to patch it up have failed.

Now we'll go into the why not.

One, why not do this if you have the opportunity?  How do the Democrats know that they'll have the House in the next Congress?  They can't run against the economy.  They can't run against record low minority unemployment.  They can't run against the United States being an energy exporter for the first time in decades.

For the second reason along the why not line of thinking.......and now we're back to that thought I asked you to hold.

Does anyone think that the Republicans are going to retaliate?  If they wouldn't go after the Obama administration gunrunning "assault weapons" then why would they go after a future Democratic President for something less than that, but something more than "abuse of power"?  Did the Republicans repeal Obamacare?  Did the Republicans secure the border?  Did the Republicans do anything about the national debt?  Let's be honest about something here.  The Republican Establishment is just as much as an enemy to your way of thinking as Organized Media is.

And this now goes on to something else.

What reason do I have to vote for Martha McSally next year?  I know, she's being primaried, but the the McCain machine won't let her opponent succeed, and if for some reason he does then the McCain machine will back Mark Kelly for that Senate seat (and Mark Kelly will win too).  There's a swamp in Phoenix that needs draining too.

Meanwhile, the Impeachment Train is rolling right along.

My opinion is that it's only a matter of time before it jumps the tracks.