Democrats Announce Two Articles of Impeachment—Never Has a Manure Pile Grown So Rapidly

Dec. 10, 2019 (EIRNS)—On Tuesday morning, in a proceeding which lasted less than 15 minutes with solemn masks of solemnity, House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump. Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler claimed that the President had abused his office for his personal benefit while injuring the national security by asking Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 elections on his behalf. When the President got caught doing this (a reference to the bogus whistleblower who no one is allowed to know), Nadler said, Trump obstructed the Congressional investigation of his conduct in an unprecedented fashion. Nadler them deferred to Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff to pile on with what can only be described as pure psychedelic fantasy.

Schiff announced that it was “uncontested” that the President had harmed the national security for his own benefit, demanding that the Ukrainians investigate his 2020 opponent Joe Biden and investigate a “baseless conspiracy theory pushed by the Russians” that the Ukrainians intervened in the 2016 elections, in return for a White House meeting and lethal military assistance to fight Russian aggression. Mad Adam, eyes bulging, declared that this could not wait because the President would get Ukraine or some other foreign power to intervene in the 2020 election on his behalf just as he had cheated that way in 2016.

Bang, that was it, and they shuffled together off the stage, taking no questions. Markups start tomorrow and the Judiciary Committee will vote next week, with a full vote by the House scheduled before Christmas.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responded to the Democrats’ 9 a.m. skit by pointing out that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had said just last week at a press conference that two and one-half years ago the Democrats had begun mapping their plan for impeachment. Nadler campaigned for Judiciary Chair by claiming he would be the best guy to accomplish the feat. As soon as the Democrats regained control of the House, in January of 2019, Pelosi drastically altered the House Rules to facilitate precisely the one-sided Star Chamber show trial proceedings which occurred over the past two months.

Almost as soon as the Democrats left their morning show, Pelosi announced that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was being voted up in the House. As McCarthy said, given the unpopularity of impeachment, Pelosi has to have something to claim that the Democrats did something with their majority, even if it appears to be a victory for Donald Trump.