Here's the Problem NanceGreggs The framer
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Posted On: 12/05/2019 1:45:32 PM
Here's the Problem
NanceGreggs
The framers of the Constitution attempted to foresee, as much as possible, future events – such as a president who committed ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdeamours’ – and succinctly set out the remedy to address that possibility: impeachment.
What the framers didn’t foresee was a president so arrogantly corrupt, he would simply ignore the Constitution he swore to protect and defend. What they didn’t envision was a president insisting that he is above the laws he swore to uphold. What they didn’t imagine was a US president standing on the world stage and declaring that the adversarial foreign power that attacked our election was blameless, and that the nation’s true enemies were those who questioned his actions and/or openly opposed them.
Much was made today of past comments by Nadler and Pelosi with respect to impeachment needing to be a bipartisan effort – and ideally, it would be. But what they didn’t foresee was a party that is as lawless as its president, and an administration so rife with corruption, the members of the party that enabled it would lie, perjure themselves, and fully adopt the idea that the Constitution is meaningless.
What they didn’t anticipate was that the treason, bribery, or other crimes and misdeamours committed by any president would be dismissed as trivialities, and defended by party members who themselves are fearful of being implicated as collaborators in those crimes.
If the Democrats went wrong anywhere, it was holding onto the belief that their ‘friends across the aisle’ would put country above party, that people of conscience and good character would act as patriots rather than flunkies beholding to a madman, that when it came down to Trump v The Constitution, upholding the Constitution would supersede all other considerations by Democrats and Republicans alike.
What we have suspected over the past three years is that the GOP is simply not interested in the truth or the facts, and that their only interest is protecting the criminal they elected, supported, and enabled as he abused the powers of his office, as he did the bidding of our enemies by undermining our democratic institutions, as he lied to the citizenry over and over again – all of which has now been undeniably confirmed.
If the Democrats are guilty of anything, it was their naïve belief that the GOP could be trusted to honour the oaths they swore to uphold the Constitution, and to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They have now been disabused of any such notions.
What it all comes down to is that this really IS Trump v The Constitution – and the Republicans have amply demonstrated which side they’re on.
NanceGreggs
The framers of the Constitution attempted to foresee, as much as possible, future events – such as a president who committed ‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdeamours’ – and succinctly set out the remedy to address that possibility: impeachment.
What the framers didn’t foresee was a president so arrogantly corrupt, he would simply ignore the Constitution he swore to protect and defend. What they didn’t envision was a president insisting that he is above the laws he swore to uphold. What they didn’t imagine was a US president standing on the world stage and declaring that the adversarial foreign power that attacked our election was blameless, and that the nation’s true enemies were those who questioned his actions and/or openly opposed them.
Much was made today of past comments by Nadler and Pelosi with respect to impeachment needing to be a bipartisan effort – and ideally, it would be. But what they didn’t foresee was a party that is as lawless as its president, and an administration so rife with corruption, the members of the party that enabled it would lie, perjure themselves, and fully adopt the idea that the Constitution is meaningless.
What they didn’t anticipate was that the treason, bribery, or other crimes and misdeamours committed by any president would be dismissed as trivialities, and defended by party members who themselves are fearful of being implicated as collaborators in those crimes.
If the Democrats went wrong anywhere, it was holding onto the belief that their ‘friends across the aisle’ would put country above party, that people of conscience and good character would act as patriots rather than flunkies beholding to a madman, that when it came down to Trump v The Constitution, upholding the Constitution would supersede all other considerations by Democrats and Republicans alike.
What we have suspected over the past three years is that the GOP is simply not interested in the truth or the facts, and that their only interest is protecting the criminal they elected, supported, and enabled as he abused the powers of his office, as he did the bidding of our enemies by undermining our democratic institutions, as he lied to the citizenry over and over again – all of which has now been undeniably confirmed.
If the Democrats are guilty of anything, it was their naïve belief that the GOP could be trusted to honour the oaths they swore to uphold the Constitution, and to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They have now been disabused of any such notions.
What it all comes down to is that this really IS Trump v The Constitution – and the Republicans have amply demonstrated which side they’re on.
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