Merrily did we drop.
Below the Kirk, Below the Hill
Below the Lighthouse Top.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
And we're off.
As of yesterday afternoon the House of Representatives has begun a formal Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump.
About a year behind schedule, I think, but hey that's just me.
And, well, the dumb motherfuckers haven't helped their own case, not one goddamned bit.
Note that the link takes you to their unclassified, heavily edited version...and at the top of page 3 and page 4 there's still enough to put these morons away for a good long while.
I would say "Somebody please take the shovel away from these motherfuckers, but, well...
What?
You've gotta be fucking kidding me?
First, this damned moron makes this goddamned moronic call trying to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate a Biden not-scandal, thus turning it into a Trump scandal. They get caught, somehow manage to bungle the cover-up (again?) and then they release an edited version of events that's still enough that it should come with a small, sharp knife because any competent lawyer will use it to cut their throats.
Assuming the Democrats haven't gotten rid of Barry Berke since last week, they have at least one.
As of last night I've officially started referring to Trump as Dipshit Nixon.
I mean...fucking seriously?
On a scale of "I am not a crook" to "I didn't kill my wife, but if I had here's a book on how I would have done it." Donald Trump manages to make both O.J. Simpson and Richard Nixon look like pikers.
And his various and assorted minions E-mail the talking points to the other side? I mean, I've heard of giving somebody enough rope to hang themselves with in a figurative sense...but I've never heard of giving the other side enough rope to hang you with damned near literally.
This might sound kind of weird but I've been kicking around the idea that all this Trump shit is some kind of Hail Mary plot to rehabilitate the memory of one Richard Milhous Nixon.
I mean, Nixon was an asshole, a criminal, a racist, and an all-around shitty person. So naturally, lots of Republicans worshiped the ground he walked on and the very air he breathed. They've spent 46 years, now, taking Watergate personally.
Hell, Fox News itself is an explicit effort by the late Roger Ailes, a Nixon acolyte, to prevent another Watergate.
The Bill Clinton Impeachment, the long-running Benghazi witch-hunt, etc. are all efforts by Republicans to "get revenge" for Watergate.
Too late, assholes.
And never mind that by the end, Nixon had lost the support even of many Republicans and seen the proverbial writing on the wall himself.
But at least Nixon also managed to do some good things, he had the watch when we went to the Moon. He ended the main phase of American involvement in the Vietnam War, he made peace with Communist China, he started the Environmental Protection Agency and changed regulations to increase women's involvement in the military.
I would, in fact, argue that a decent amount of good came from Nixon's fall as well. Chuck Colson served his time and went on to found Prison Fellowship Ministries, for example. Even Nixon himself became counselor to subsequent Presidents and ended his days a revered Elder Statesman.
Trump has been very little more than a corrupt, greedy, incompetent traitor and wannabe dictator. While he's been at it, he's shown the Republican Party collectively to be not much more than that themselves.
The best these fools have managed is that Sean Spicer dressed like a traffic sign and embarrassed himself on Dancing With The Stars.
Certainly, they don't seem to have anybody left who can find their ass without both hands and a hound dog.
I said to somebody yesterday that because Democrats dawdled for so long in getting this show on the road, that Trump's term could very well be over before impeachment proceedings were over. After all, the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Bill Clinton impeachment dragged on from 1997 to 1999.
I stand corrected, if these fucking idiots keep screwing up this damned bad, this bullshit could be over by the end of the month. Jesus Christ, what's wrong with these people?
To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President I must put the interests of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. ~Richard Nixon, Resignation speech, August 8th, 1974,
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I'm gonna go out on a maybe-unpopular limb here and say that it's quite possible that for Republicans, some clues regarding how to get out of this particular box canyon lay in the actions and words of old Tricky Dick himself.
Greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes; because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember: Others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself. ~Richard Nixon, speech to White House staff before departure, August 9th, 1974
The difference, though, is that Nixon was smart.
These people E-mailed their own talking points to the other side.
You do the math.
Part Two.
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