I consider Victor Davis Hanson the most worthwhile conservative commentator/opinion writer in the country.
His latest piece, on the left’s hypocrisy regarding the impeachment inquiry (not actual impeachment, inquiry only) of Joe Biden is an excellent case in point.
Here is a key segment – but you would be remiss not to use this link and read every word:
The Left is saturating the airwaves with outrage over the current House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry. They allege that formally investigating Joe Biden’s role in the family grifting operation is somehow a poor constitutional precedent, if not out-of-bounds entirely.
So we hear further arguments that it will be unwise to impeach a first-term president when he loses his House majority, that there is no reason to “waste” congressional time and effort when Biden will be automatically acquitted in the Democratically controlled Senate, and that the impeachment is cynically timed to synchronize with president’s reelection efforts.
All of these are the precise arguments many of us cited when Donald Trump was impeached in December 2019 (as his reelection campaign began, and immediately after being cleared of the 22-month, $40-million-special-counsel Russian-collusion hoax).
The Democrats tried to remove an elected president over a phone call without a special counsel’s report. So Trump was impeached only after the 2018 election led to a Democratic House majority, which went from eating up nearly two years of his administration in the Russian-collusion hoax straight into the impeachment farce. There was no concern about the cost to the nation of putting an elected government into a continual state of siege.
There is one difference, though, between the Trump impeachment and the Biden impeachment inquiry. Donald Trump was impeached because he accurately accused the members of the Ukrainian government of paying Hunter Biden, with his zero fossil fuel expertise, an astronomical sum to serve on the Burisma board — as the costly quid that earned the lucrative quo from his dad Vice President Joe Biden.
No one now denies that Joe Biden got prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired by threatening to cancel legislatively-approved U.S. aid. Shokin knew about the skullduggery through which the Biden family eventually received $6.5 million from Ukraine — and so Biden ensured his firing, and publicly bragged about it in performance-art fashion.
In case you don’t recall that “Biden ensured his firing, and publicly bragged about it in performance-art fashion”, here is the video:
I’ll assume this ends any issue about him doing so.
“There is more. Much more. I again urge you to use the link and read it all.
But, for the meanwhile, we can experience (endure, actually) the Democrat hypocrisy on this issue cited by Mr. Hanson, coupled with Democrats’ usual media obeisance.
Media’s lapdogism may not be very pretty, but you have to give them points for consistency.
