Thought For The Day

Too Soon?  Too Late?

January 30, 2020

Republican’ts keep whining that we are too close to an election to remove this impeached president from office.  In fact, some of them are contending that, just as when the insisted that a sitting president cannot appoint a Supreme Court justice close to an election, a Congress cannot impeach a president close to an election (even an election in which that president is accused – and in this case, clearly guilty – of cheating on an international scale to win – just as he did to get elected in the first place).  In fact, neither of these things is true.

Republican’ts insist that Democrats are attempting to thwart the will of the American voters and that we must let the American people (and based on their defense of Chrump’s solicitation of foreign entities to help him cheat, presumably Russian and whatever other countries he can recruit to help him) decide whether or not Chrump should be president.  Now correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the American people (and almost certainly the Russians) have a hand in electing this demented warthog once already?  Do we really need to make sure the American people get the opportunity to do that again?  Can the American electorate really be trusted to do the right thing?  Functioning minds want to know.

If you hired a babysitter so you could have a night out on the town and you came home around midnight to find your little darlings staked out on the front lawn, would you hire that babysitter again?  Imagine this scenario the next time you want to go out – Dear, it’s almost 6:00 and our reservation is for 7:00 and we forgot to get a sitter; should we call that young lady we used last time?  I know things were a little different than we expected, but after all the children were still alive when we got home and now it’s too close to our reservation, so should we discuss the pros and cons of leaving her with our children again?  Or is it too late and we should just call her again?  What could possibly go wrong after all?

Chrump’s legal monkeys have insisted, while avoiding the facts like they were the plague during their opening statements in the Senate impeachment hearings, that a president cannot be impeached and convicted unless they commit an actual crime.  According to most legal experts this is what those in the legal community call bullshit. In any event, how is this even an issue?  Donald Chrump is himself a crime.  His whole life has been one long criminal act.  Even his “hair” is a crime. 

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