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From: weberm@polaris.net

The New York Post slammed Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in its
Thursday cover and an op-ed published from columnist Michael Goodwin
over the Democrats’ purely partisan impeachment of President Donald
Trump.

The cover features a picture of Pelosi dressed in black for impeachment
and states: “IT’S YOUR FUNERAL: Swamp mistress Pelosi dresses in black
for historic vote.”

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The Post’s cover and the op-ed from Goodwin come in response to
Democrats, for the first time in U.S. history, impeaching a president
along strictly partisan lines, as only Democrats voted for the
impeachment and all Republicans voted against it, with a multiple
Democrats siding with the Republicans. One independent member sided
with the Democrats.

The Post noted that Pelosi had publicly and privately fought off
impeachment for months as the far-left faction of her party, led by
socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), aggressively demanded impeachment.

Pelosi told The Washington Post in March, “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.”

Pelosi told CNN in June, “I don’t think there’s anything more divisive
we can do than to impeach a president of the United States, and so you
have to handle it with great care. It has to be about the truth and the
facts to take you to whatever decision has to be there. It should by no
means be done politically.”

Goodwin wrote in his op-ed:

[B]y last Sept. 24, with the 2020 election fast approaching
and her icy relationship with Trump now a bonfire, Pelosi
suddenly flip-flopped on impeachment. Her ostensible reason
centered on the unverified claims of an anonymous whistleblower
regarding Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine.
The call, she was assured by the media and Rep. Adam Schiff,
would amount to a smoking gun. …

… Twenty-four hours later, Trump released the transcript of
the Ukraine call and it was benign in comparison to her
inflammatory accusation. If only Pelosi had waited another
day.

But it was too late. Confident that she had the votes now
that most if not all the 2018 winners would be with her, she
erased her previous red lines about bipartisanship, took the
plunge — and plunged America into a nightmare that continues.

Goodwin went on to write that “the damage” from Pelos’s actions to
America “is real.”

Goodwin was not alone in his analysis as others, including The New York
Post’s editorial board, who noted what Alexander Hamilton wrote in
Federalist 65. Hamilton wrote:

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.


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"We need to impeach the President to find out what crime he committed."
-- Nancy Pelosi

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