IMPEACHMENT AS A REPUBLICAN PLOT

If you think the title of this blog is a joke, you’re right.

But not a joke in the sense that it’s funny.  It’s a joke in the sense that some Democrats – and at least two writers for thehill.com – are actually pushing it as a theory.

Doubt me?  Then read these excerpts from Mike Lillis and Cristina Marcos’s article:

House Democratic leaders facing liberal calls for impeaching President Trump are confronting increasing pressure from an unlikely faction: Republicans who appear eager to goad them into it.  

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team have repeatedly sought to defuse the appeals for impeachment hearings, deeming them premature, and some Democrats sense the Republicans are setting a political trap to boost their ally in the White House.

But recent stonewalling actions by the administration have only fueled the liberal push to oust the president, complicating leadership efforts to keep a lid on the campaign.

GOP leaders know impeachment divides Democrats, and see a clear political advantage in promoting the debate. The Republicans’ campaign arm is steadily blasting emails linking moderate Democrats in swing districts to the impeachment effort. And a growing number of GOP lawmakers are all but daring Democratic leaders to launch the process while it remains unpopular with voters — a strategy not overlooked by top Democrats vowing to resist the bait.

“They would love to drive this to an impeachment, because they think it will be their political salvation,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a Judiciary Committee member, said of Republicans.

“If we get there, we will get there on our own time and our own way. We’re not going to be baited into it,” Raskin said.

Uh…which is it guys?  Are you saying Republicans seem eager to goad them into impeachment, or are you saying only that some Democrats sense the Republicans are doing it?  Since you’ve put up both positions, in successive paragraphs, it’s a little hard to tell.

And maybe you’ve forgotten that, Republicans notwithstanding, there are loud, angry voices in the Democrat Party which have been screaming for Trump’s impeachment, and continue to do so now.  Rep. Maxine Waters (for her, the “screaming” description is literal), Rep. Al Green, Rep. Steve Cohen and Senator Elizabeth Warren come quickly to mind, but there are others as well.

Look, I have no doubt that there are anti-Trump establishment Republicans who would have no problem with getting rid of him, and would not object if impeachment were put on the table.

But, after two years of daily demands for impeachment by Trump hating Democrats, to now blame the impeachment push on pro-Trump Republicans, based on no hard facts?  Really, there’s got to be something more worthwhile to speculate about.

Incidentally, if most people in this country are against impeachment, it just might have more to do with the combination of people liking where the economy has gone under Trump and the collusion delusion blowing up in Democrats’ faces than it does with some clandestine Republican plot.

Mike?  Cristina?  You might want to think about that.

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UPDATE:  I just watched Chuck Todd tease today’s Meet The Press show.  And guess what:  he tossed out the same routine.

Paraphrased:

“politically, Trump and his campaign benefit from impeachment because it divides the Democrats.”

Evidently the meme has gone out and is going to be recited by the usual suspects.

Tell us, Chuck:  if calling for impeachment benefits Trump because it divides Democrats, doesn’t NOT calling for impeachment divide Democrats for exactly, precisely the same reason?

So how about cutting the crap and admitting that this is a clumsy attempt by Democrats, and media people like you, to try and contort the lack of any reason for impeachment (i.e. no collusion, no obstruction) from your embarrassingly, ridiculously wrong two-year witch hunt, to a Republican/Trumpian political strategy?

You really take the public for a bunch of ignorant saps, don’t you?