GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

CHRISTIANITY TODAY: MARK GALLI'S CHRISTIANITY IS NOT OF CHRIST.

ICHEOKU says how can any sane person, especially one allegedly following in the footsteps of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ ever diminish the killing of Christians enemy number one Abu al Baghdadi and making it and all the other accomplishments of President Donald John Trump, lesser than a mere telephone call to Ukraine. A matter made worse because this fella did not even condemn the corruption of Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden, but went through the same selective indignation talking point, that the president asked for the investigation of his political opponent. 

ICHEOKU says but the crime which led to the requested investigation is being ignored by all these hack partisans, who have chosen to ignore and refused to address it. If the president asked for the investigation of his political opponent, what did his political opponent do that warrants looking into? But a fella who is supposedly a Christian, conveniently decided to overlook the underlying criminal act, the precursor to the requested investigation; yet wants American people to believe that he acted without malice to the president in writing his editorial from hell. 

If the president had political opponents in mind when he requested the investigation of the Biden father and son corruption duo, he would have started with investigating Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, afterall she did a lot of dirty deeds involving Ukrainian officials. The accusation is made more more disheartening because President Donald John Trump does not need any Ukrainian help to trounce the infirmities of old age afflicted Joe Biden; not after what he did to the Clinton and Bush family political dynasties, as well as a sitting President Barack Obama in 2016. ICHEOKU says demolishing mentally depreciated Joe Biden will be a piece of cake and walk in the park as Joe is not a formidable opponent.

But all these anti Trump and Never Trumpers Deep Staters want American people to believe that the reason the president asked the Ukrainian president to "do us a favor" is to help him defeat Joe Biden. Who has Joe Biden ever defeated in any election outside Delaware that now makes him such an indomitable political foe that would require an Ukrainian help to vanquish? This fella got his head all screwed up for demeaning all that the president has done for both Christians and the American people; putting them in the thrash and beneath his imaginary moral turpitude of the president. 

What would Jesus do faced with similar circumstances? ICHEOKU says Jesus would look at the apparent reason for the requested investigation and would also condemn the crime of Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden. Jesus would also not waste his time second guessing a political motive, because what Joe Bide and his son Hunter Biden did is apparent and it is a criminal act. Crimes are usually investigated and that should be the foundational reason for the requested investigation, period. 

But this fella latched unto an already litigated past indiscretions of the president to pounce on him with his sanctimonious holier than thou inanities. Where was his Christian faith in repentance and forgiveness of sins not to know that the president has changed from his old ways and now professes Christianity. Saul was murdering Christians before God called him and made him Paul; ditto Mary Magdalene the prostitute and Matthew the tax collector. Our Lord Jesus said in Mark 2:17 that he did not come for those who are well, but that the sick may get salvation. The Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32 teaches us about new beginning; and that it is not how long our sins lasted that is important, but that we are able to overcome it and face the way that leads to righteousness. 

God is happier with a repented sinner than a sinner who perpetually confesses his unwillingness to change course or literary declares him or herself an unbelieving atheist and agnostic who will be happy to burn in hell like Ronald Reagan Jr. So, while angels live in heaven and will not come down on earth to govern mankind, a repented sinner will always be the nearest best thing, a better and preferred alternative to preside over us. The realization by a sinner to sin no more or to identify certain things as sinful is always a good acceptable first step and this imperative makes President Donald John Trump good enough and a perfect president for the United States of America. 

At least the president identifies himself as a Christian and aligns himself with the school of thought that proclaims killing of babies is sinful. The president have in addition, taken many steps to reduce infanticides rates at abortion clinics that festoon the land, as well as those overseas, by cutting funds to them. The president have thus established his full credentials as a Christian bona fides and beyond any shadow of doubt. This fella should have taken it into consideration before embarking on his wild goose chase to crucify an innocent man whose sins were washed away a long time ago, following his acceptance of Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

ICHEOKU says who does this fella want as president or does he prefer and wishes that Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton had won? Who would he choose from the pack of the Democratic Party candidates currently jostling for an opportunity to run for the office, that is less immoral than the president, when all of them support the killing of babies. How would Matthew 19:14 be fulfilled when babies are being slaughtered in abortion clinics in America with these peoples' support, consent and approval? 

It is not just about Mark Galli stipulating what Mayor Pete Buttigieg calls setting a purist test which nobody can pass, but under the circumstances in which we found ourselves in America, where religiosity is fast fading to the background, who would he have preferred as president. In casting stone against the president, he forgot the admonition of Jesus Christ in John 8:7 and Luke 6:37, yet he is a Christian and hates like sin. 

Would he have preferred those who are ashamed of Christianity or a president who at least still professes Christianity? Would he prefer those who hate to be perceived as having any relationship with Christianity to a president who still publicly identifies with Christianity, in view of what Jesus said in Luke 8:50. Would this fella have preferred those who would rather see Christianity wiped off the face of the earth to a president who has done more for and to protect Christianity than all his predecessors put together. Would he prefer those who argue that Crosses and religious symbols should be taken down from public spaces and that God must be taken out of schools, government and even our lives, to a president who is a staunch advocate of God's supremacy in our lives and society. 

Mr Mark Galli should remember too that nobody is perfect and that an angel will not come down from heaven to occupy the White House. So our option is limited to what we have available; and when left to choose between two evils, the lesser evil is always the play. If we cannot get 100%, at least 75% is good enough; instead of 0% or at most 21%. We deal with what we are given and if lemons, we make lemonades; but without citrus, we cannot make any drink. 

But Mark Galli did not write any morality editorial against nor called for Pete Buttigieg, an openly homosexual gay man running for president, to drop out of the race because gaydom is immoral. Ditto Virginia Governor Ralph Northam who killed babies and advocated for the killing of fully formed babies, who has not been similarly excoriated by Mark Galli's editorial, calling for his removal from office. 

Certain things are just crass politics and so obvious, so subjective. ICHEOKU says unless Mark Galli is presenting his holier than thou self in next year's presidential election as a candidate, his call for the removal of the president is rather presumptuous, baseless, faulty and lacking in every objectivity. He kept silent for more than three years and suddenly now wants the president removed from office with less than ten months to go; and you ask yourself why not wait for the election that is almost here. But Mark Galli is part of the swamp and was only kowtowing the directive of the Deep State to editorialize for the removal the president now, otherwise he will win a reelection on November 3rd, 2020. 

If according to Mark Galli, the Christian Today's usual approach is to stay above the fray of politics, what suddenly changed that made them to dive headlong into politics now? Were the founder of Christian Today, Bill Graham, alive today, would he concur with the editorial opinion which Mark Galli put up on CT? A hit job piece which Bill Graham's son, Franklin Graham, has already repudiated as not being what his father would have appreciated. 

Like the crazy Nancy Pelosi who always intones "I pray for the president", albeit sarcastically; Mark Galli claims that he loves and prays for the president; yet he called the president immoral and wants him removed from office. Query, what is so "immoral" in the president asking for the investigation of a crime committed by Joe Biden that deserves his being removed from office? With a love like Mark Galli's, the president does need any other hatred. Speaking of "loving" the president, where was Mark Galli's condemnation of the House Democrats rushed impeachment of the president, after what Mark Galli himself acknowledged was a hatchet job, done without giving the president any opportunity to defend himself? 

ICHEOKU says it becomes much doubtful to believe that Mark Galli is indeed a true follower of Jesus Christ, if after his reading of the telephone transcript he still came to the conclusion that the president "attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit the president's political opponent." 

Where was the coercion in the transcript and where was the harassment solicited for? Instead of condemning what Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden did to Ukraine, extortion and bribery, which ordinarily are against Christianity teachings and values, the real McCoy of immoral acts, this fella is channeling the liberal talking point "the president want to investigate his political opponent." They calculatedly maintain a blind eye to the crimes of the Biden father and son duo; but are rather more interested in hounding a president for merely asking that the crime be investigated. So what manner of a Christian is this Mark Galli who selectively chooses what to condemn as immoral or is extortion and bribery now morally acceptable by his brand of Christianity as virtuous? 

ICHEOKU says from the litany of mark Galli's complaints against the president and which he considers "immoral", it is obvious that political motivation cannot be completely excluded nor ruled out from his editorial hit piece. So what, if the president mistakenly hired some people with questionable characters? What is imperative and of paramount character content is what the president did upon learning of their not so kosher history. He did the right thing, as would any good moral person; he fired them. That is what good people do, they react appropriately when unfolding circumstances produce facts of consequences which forces a change of mind. 

It is also farcical for Mark Galli to falsely claim that the president "remains proud" of some of his past indiscretions, especially when there is no evidence to that effect. This further shows that his editorial piece in Christianity Today was purposely crafted to impugn, malign and disparage the president. Possibly, Mark Galli is the latest hire of the Deep State in their attempt to get the president; believing that his Christian background as editor of Christianity Today gives him some air of credibility and believability. 

The Deep State's thinking must be that American people would say since it was in Christianity Today, it must therefore be true and therefore the president should be removed from office. But once again, their attempt to break the bond which exists between the president and the American people, particularly those who identify themselves as evangelical Christians, will fail woefully because American people are smarter than all the tricks the Deep Staters are playing to ensnare them. 

Further, whatever relationships the president had with women were in the past and long before he became president. So why would Mark Galli suddenly decide to resurrect them now as one reason in his editorial piece why he wants the president removed from office. This alone defeats his argument of lack of bias and unmasks his pretentiousness on his real motive for the editorial hit job. Why dredge up things that happened over several decades ago which has been previously conclusively litigated before American people and use it to attack the president as if they just happened. 

Where was Mark Galli when all of these allegations were still fleshly unfolding during the 2016 election campaign? Where was Mark Galli's editorial in condemnation of Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton deleting and bleach-washing of 33,000 subpoenaed emails. Mark Galli also attacked the president's Twitter presence as a "habitual strings of mischaracterizations, lies and slanders" and he has no basis for this subjective opinion.  Now, can somebody please tell ICHEOKU that this fella is not actively working for the Democratic Party or would any rational person attribute an impartial  clear conscience to this editorial piece?  Now, he is mislabeling the president's Twitter use and asking that he be removed from office for exercising his freedom of speech right.

Mark Galli is a partisan hack and a hired gun of the Deep State. imagine his claim that the impeachment hearings made it "absolutely clear" that Trump abused his office; when the same Mark Galli in a previous paragraph of his editorial, admitted that the president was not allowed representation or the ability to defend himself during the impeachment persecution. Then ask yourself, how then could the same skewed impeachment hearings make the president's culpability "absolutely clear", when the president never defended nor was allowed to rebut any of the trumped up charges against him. What manner of judgment call is this, when in one hand, Mark Galli is giving and with the other hand, taking the same thing he was giving; and still shamelessly passes judgment in condemnation of the president, based on this set of consequential facts. 

This fella was also ready to dismiss all the record accomplishments of the president as pale, in comparison to a mere telephone call with Ukrainian president; including a fabulous economy, two Supreme Court Justices, Veterans Act, Prison reform, Abu Baghdadi killed, ISIS decimation, numerous trade deals etc. ICHEOKU says just listen to his characterization of the president, "None of the president's positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such "grossly immoral character." ICHEOKU says if this man is not a card carrying Democrat, nobody else is; and it is obvious from his language and carefully chosen words that he is a liberal nut job masquerading as an evangelist. 

He did not even give the president credit for being an exception to his assertion that "politicians are notorious for breaking campaign promises"; the president having kept nearly all his campaign promises plus more. Also his attempt to make a comparison with what led to Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment is another example of his being economical with the truth. Bill Clinton actually committed a crime of perjury; unlike Trump who merely asked for a crime to be investigated, which is not a crime by itself. 

Unlike Bill Clinton, President Donald John Trump did not lie about the phone call nor asked anybody to lie about it. He also released the transcript of the phone call in addition for everybody to see what transpired and there was nothing impeachable therein. Also, Bill Clinton was not impeached for having sex in the White House with an intern Monica Lewinsky; no, he was impeached for lying about it and for asking other people to lie about it. A perjury and suborning perjury, two definitive crimes. 

So, where is the moral equivalence which Mark Galli was desperately trying to make between Bill Clinton's impeachment and the telephone call which President Trump made to the Ukrainian president. Where was the breach of trust by the president or the crime he allegedly committed by asking that a criminal act of the Biden father and son corruption duo be investigated?  Imagine Mark Galli making such an over-broad statement, "unsavory dealings and immoral acts by the president and those close to him have rendered this administration unable to lead"; and you ask yourself how many "unsavory dealings and immoral acts" occurred? 

This fella is supposedly a Christian and he is making things up like Adam Schiff. Who even made this fella the whisperer in chief of the American people who elected President Trump and put him in office, to know what American people want by calling for the removal of their president from office. How dare him? How can this man even compare the evil of abortions to a character flaw which he hyped as "blackened, bent and broken"; aware that no man or woman is infallible or was he expecting a Messiah in the White House. 

ICHEOKU says good enough Mr Mark Galli subsequently confessed that he is not a Trump supporter and has merely been tolerating the feelings and opinions of those evangelical Christians who are supporters of the president. In his own words, "we have done our best to give evangelical Trump supporters their due, to try to understand their point of view, to see the prudential nature of so many political decisions they have made regarding Trump." Unfortunately, it would seem that Mr Mark Galli, like his other fellow Never Trumpers, facing an inevitable Trump's reelection on November 3rd, 2020, could not take it anymore and he decided on an outburst.

A pitiful partisan and a Never Trumper extraordinaire; yet some people are attaching some merit, relevance and importance to his editorial piece and passing it off as gospel and reflective of the evangelical community in America. ICHEOKU says far be it that Mark Galli speaks for the evangelical community in America. It will be akin to CNN speaking for American people when only about 300,000 Americans including those held hostage to CNN at airports, less than 0.3% of the population, tune in to their hogwash fake news propaganda nightly.

Anyway, the other good news is that editorial opinions do not generally reflect American people's sentiments and thinking; nor do they affect anything American people do. The numerous editorial opinions in 2016 did not sway American people in the 2016 election, otherwise Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton would be in the White House today. ICHEOKU recalls that in 2016, practically every newspaper and magazine of record in America editorialized against electing Donald John Trump and urged American people not to vote for him. But on the night of November 8th, 2016, American people told them to stuff it in their you know where and took their country back from globalists, anti America forces who were bent on humiliating America. 

ICHEOKU says the patriotic fervor displayed by American people with their votes on November 8th, 2016 will be reenacted in 2020. As it was in 2016, so shall it be repeated in 2020. American people have seen in President Donald John Trump that their decision in 2016 was the right one and that they did not make a mistake. Therefore, regardless of what this creepy editor of Christianity Today wishes, President Donald John Trump will not be removed from office and he will win the November 3rd 2020 presidential election, his reelection for a second term. What a jerk Mark Galli is, a hack partisan, anti Trump Never Trumper liberal Democrat and a stooge of the Deep State, who does not mean well for America. it is delightful that he has tendered his resignation or is it retirement; good riddance; away with him and his editorial opinion.

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: NANCY PELOSI MUST NOT BE ALLOWED A DO OVER.

ICHEOKU says Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi had all the time and opportunity in the world to get her acts right, together and conduct a fair and transparent impeachment of the president but bungled it. She rush through a sham impeachment to ensure that House Democrats voted before the holidays, when they would have had the opportunity to hear from their constituents, who do not want the president impeached and thus would have voted differently or like Tulsi Gabbard voted present. 

But Madam Speaker was under heavy pleasure from LGBTQ and other crazed out, wild eyed, liberal donors and activists wing of the Democratic Party, who wanted the president impeached and needed such deliverable tendered immediately, before they can continue bankrolling the Democratic Party. She caved in and the result was an impeachment that was technically no impeachment at all; and thus embarrassed, Madam Speaker is trying to fix the impeachment by demanding a restart of the impeachment hearing and probably  its investigation, de novo in the Senate. Nobody forced nor pressured her to rush through the impeachment and if in fact she needed more witnesses and evidence, she would have allowed the courts to rule on the motions before it on the legality of the president not providing some witnesses and producing some documents which were requested by the House of Representatives. 

But Madam Speaker decided to ignore what is a normal process of adjudicating issues and controversies in courts and went forth to impeach the president with whatever evidence she had and considered sufficient. Therefore it begs the question why she is now asking that more witnesses be called in the Senate, which technically shows that she impeached the president with insufficient evidence, when she should not have done so. Madam Speaker is trying so desperately to tele-guide and dictate to the Senate on how to do its job of conducting the impeachment trail, by insisting that certain assurances be given to her before she will transmit the Articles of Impeachment to them. Madam Speaker is contravening an imperative under the law of impeachment, which designates the Senate as the exclusive legislative chamber to conduct the trial of an impeached president. It also did not condition this duty on the emotional foibles of Madam Speaker. 

Therefore, what Madam Speaker is trying to do, seeking to usurp the duty of the Senate, is unprecedented; and must not be allowed to stand, otherwise she will be setting yet another bad precedent where the lower House of Representatives now controls and dictates to the upper House, Senate. Such an obfuscation was never intended by the founding fathers who bequeathed on the Senate the calming powers over sometimes impulsive acts of an otherwise ever restive Congress. Madam Speaker has already set a bad precedent when she drastically lowered the bar and threshold for impeachment by impeaching the president for a perfect phone call and should not be allowed to increase the tally of such bad precedents, by illegally withholding the Articles of Impeachment, pending a reciprocity that meets her desires. 

Under no circumstance are the powers of the House of Representatives superior to the Senate's, particularly on matter of impeachment of the president; and Madam Speaker will not be allowed to manufacture such an adjunct powers now. Except Madam Speaker is tardy, she should have since appointed the House managers of the impeachment trial and as soon as she flagged off the impeachment hearing. They should have been waiting to spring it over to the Senate as soon as the votes were affirmative. Madam Speaker must therefore not be allowed to make it up as she goes, because there are rules and precedents governing an impeachment of a president as this is not the first time the House ever impeached a president. It is either she conforms or the impeachment is a dud, since it never made it to the Senate as required by the Constitution. 

Madam Speakers' powers over the impeachment ended when the votes to impeach the president were tallied and collated. Thereafter, the power over the conduct of the trial of the impeached president automatically vests in the Senate. Therefore, Madam Speaker holding over the Articles of Impeachment is ultra vires her powers as Speaker, as she has no right to do so, period. What she is doing by withholding the Articles of Impeachment amounts to usurpation of powers of the Senate, which she is denying their constitutionally vested authority to sit in judgment over an impeached president. If Madam Speaker wants to "unimpeach" the president, that will be a different thing; but having already impeached the president, she must comply forthwith and without more or preconditions or demands, to the law, by transmitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. 

This is a non negotiable duty of the Speaker; it is imperative and not subject to any qualifications whatsoever. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi overreached herself and arbitrary extended her authority by demanding that the Senate provide her their template for conducting the trial, their duty, of the president before she will release the Articles of Impeachment to them. Madam Speaker is not doing the Senate a favor by complying with a requirement of the Constitution and her present stand off amounts to a shakedown and blackmail; aka the quid pro quo and bribery which she accused the president of. A duty is an obligation and not a privilege which is discretionary and demands absolutism in compliance. So Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi has no basis both in fact and law as well as precedents, to take the Articles of Impeachment hostage to her whims and caprices. 

Therefore Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi must do her duty and transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate pronto; and without any further ado or delay, regardless of how she feels about its destined outcome. Unfortunately for Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi and luckily for American people, Charles Schumer is not the Senate Majority Leader; so justice will be done to the unjust impeachment and the president will be set free. ICHEOKU never knew how crazed out this woman is until this impeachment hoopla assumed a life. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a crazed out, wild eyed, feminist numero uno from the foremost liberal American City of San Francisco and has left nobody in doubt that her credentials were well earned. The woman is a handful and indeed something else; which reminds ICHEOKU of the funny way she stretched her hands and formed her hands when she was clapping for the president at the last State of the Union address. Simply incredible and mired in incredulity.  

Monday, December 23, 2019

IMPEACHED AND UNLEASHED: TRUMP NOW FREE TO PROSECUTE HIS AGENDA.

ICHEOKU says free at last, free at last, thank God almighty the president is free at last. Now that he has been impeached, President Donald John Trump is no longer afraid of being impeached. Impeachment is now in his rear view mirror as he has been freed from the shackles of fear of possible impeachment by a very hostile House Democrats led by Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 

This fear kept the president constrained, circumspect, somewhat worried and deferring too much to House Democrats, believing that such courtesy would deflate their threat of impeachment. But the House Democrats have done their worse by still impeaching the president and now, all bets are over. The president will now charge full throttle with prosecuting his America First agenda, unapologetic; and to hell with the inhibitions of the House Democrats and political correctness. 

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi successfully engineered the impeachment of a president who did nothing wrong and at worst, nothing of such a magnitude or so egregious as should warrant impeachment. But an agenda driven crazy Nancy proceeded anyway, just to satisfy her crazed out, wild eyed feminists, liberal nut jobs who are still smarting that the president humiliated their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton in November 8th 2016 election and have been demanding a payback ever since. Anyway, after impeachment, now what? What else can those angry House Democrats do to the president after they have fired their one only best shot, but the president is still standing, kill him? 

Although, they impeached him but he is going no where nor leaving the White House any time soon nor earlier than January 2025. So until then, the president will, in addition to his White House residency, continue to live rent free in the heads of the Democrats and will continue to drive them crazy. So, the wise counsel not to impeach the president would have prevailed on Nancy Pelosi, but she was possessed by a vengeful demonic spirit of retaliation and she proceeded to cut her pound of flesh. 

Since nothing changed nor would ever change about the president's status, why impeach him? Why impeach him if the status quo ante will still be maintained or is the sound bite of "IMPEACHED"  enough consolation prize? Yes, the House Democrats pronounced him impeached, but until the Articles of Impeachment is transmitted to the Senate for them to act on it in some fashion as constitutionally prescribed, the president has not yet been impeached. 

At best, as prosecutors normally do with suspects, the House of Representatives merely declared their intention to prosecute the president following the conclusion of their investigation. But until the president is charged in the court of the Senate, by presenting the Articles of Impeachment before therein, the process of having him impeached is still ongoing, but not yet accomplished. Moreso, there is nothing like a partial impeachment in the Constitution or that is known to law, which could have given the House Democrats some joyous satisfaction. 

So, it is either they impeach him by transmitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate as required or they chose not to impeach him by allowing their purported impeachment to wither off in Nancy Pelosi's office drawers. Therefore, until the full performance of a constitutional requirement by Madam Speaker is carried out, the president has not been impeached. It is mandatory and not subject to the comical relief or emotional roller-coasting dictates of Madam Speaker. 

ICHEOKU says the day before the impeachment, Trump was the president. On the day of impeachment Trump is the president and on the day after the impeachment Trump still remains the president; and will continue to so until January 2025. So, what exactly did the House Democrats achieve by this their misguided and hateful impeachment of a president who did nothing wrong nor that was impeachable. 

What a waste of valuable time, spent pursuing phantom, fueled by rage, anger, jealousy, envy and hatred of a president whose only mortal sin was winning an election which was "reserved" for Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton. Why impeach a president who loves America so passionately and wants to do better for America by making America great again. 

A patriotic president who believes that charity begins from home and has refocused the attention of the American government back on America and Americans with his America First policy for the revival of America. America is back and being made great again courtesy of President Donald John Trump, but these anarchist House Democrats, meddlesome interlopers, who love other countries more than they love their own country, are in the way trying to sabotage the president's effort. 

They were disgracefully disappointed when their continuing effort to diminish America was busted by the president on November 8, 2016 and they desperately yearned for a payback ever since. They have been scheming to get even with the president and finally manufactured the Ukrainian telephone call scandal as a subterfuge to carry out their impeachment. 

ICHEOKU says no rational and/or reasonable American is fooled by the fire on the mountain hoopla of the impeachment from hell, delivered one week from Christmas and intended to be the Grinch that stole American peoples Christmas, because it is farcical, meritless and baseless. American people are smarter than the Democrats give them credit for and they know exactly what happened that led up to this impeachment. American people are not the unthinking hillbillies and cave dwellers with minimal imbecile's IQ, which the elitist Democrats take them for. 

American people can think for themselves to know what took place and they know that the House Democrats acted out of pure malice and political vendetta. American people saw through the spiteful lowering of the impeachment bar by Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi just to get even with a Stephen who she hates and dislikes, her denial to the contrary notwithstanding. 

A president who made her and her pack of crazed out wild eyed feminist nut jobs  incensed by winning a presidency which their Queen of Spades Crooked Hillary Clinton was supposed to win or rather bequeathed with. Like Greta Thunberg disrespectfully said to world leaders, the Democrats thundered to the president, how dare you? Like the pack of wild dogs and hyenas they are, the Democrats sank their teeth of impeachment into the president and never let go until they did it or partially or in the process of doing. They feverishly yelped impeach him, impeach 45, impeach the motherfucker, impeach him to prevent his reelection, impeach him because he is orange and such other sundry impeach him inanities until they finally got their wish fulfilled, mission accomplished. 

What else can they do to the president other than to surrender to the blitzkrieg of his Make America Great Again agenda, very illustrative of he who laughs last, laughs best. With all the inhibition now rested, the president can now go forth to wow and amaze  American people with the implementation of his patriotic agenda and to the fullest. ICHEOKU can imagine a president now feeling much relieved that the sword of Damocles  hanging over his head all this while has been struck without spilling his blood nor separating his neck from his shoulders. 

What a loser the House Democrats are who never advised themselves properly that their impeachment of the president for no apparent impeachable reason will only make him stronger, larger, huger and even more likable by the American people, who will now give him more sympathetic ears. 

The House Democrats wing of the Deep State struck at the president with their impeachment in order to intimidate the president and weaken the president's resolve to take the Deep State down and dismantle their stranglehold on America. In desperation, they are exploiting every resources to first take the president down before he takes them down. But again they failed, as their Nancy Pelosi could not successfully execute the plot as planned and anticipated. She failed to make the case and failed to simultaneously transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. 

ICHEOKU makes bold to state that the impeachment did not damage the president as the Democrats had hoped and looked forward to. Instead, the president who is a victim of a Deep State orchestrated strike, will be reelected with an overwhelming votes of 70 million plus on November 3rd, 2020. This will send a resounding message to the sadist House Democrats that they overreached themselves when hey unreasonably lowered the impeachment bar just to get the president. 

By doing so, they trivialized the sanction of impeachment and set a bad precedent; all in their attempt to kneecap the president. It is unfortunate that House Democrats stooped so low, being short sighted and for temporary gain and advantage. The unintended consequences will be so grave for the Democrats that impeaching the president for such a trivial thing as a harmless telephone call with a foreign Ukrainian president, might not be a very good bargain. 

Meanwhile, Barack Obama did not give Ukraine those weapons and the alleged Joe Biden's intransigence took place with Obama's nod and wink, tacit approval; the reason Joe Biden told the Ukrainians to call the president if they doubt his threat to withhold loan guarantees. For 8 years during the presidency of Obama/Biden, nobody said anything about Ukraine being our "ally." Russia invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea and Eastern Ukrainian Donbass region as Obama and Biden stood down and helplessly and hopelessly watched, yet nobody said a word. 

But Trump became president and suddenly it was now all his fault, as all hell was let loose over circumstances which he neither created nor did it happen under his watch. Nobody impeached Obama for all these, but a mere delayed delivery is now so egregious as to impeach Trump? If crass hypocrisy has a human face, it will be Nancy Pelosi and her band of rabble rousing anarchists House Democrats who orchestrated this hoax of an impeachment. 

Anyway, now that the impeachment has come and gone, in its post mortem, only two things came out of it. It showed how angry the Democrats really are and the extent they could go to exert revenge. The Democrats are sad, mean and vengeful; the reason they are always look like undertakers with too many decaying corpses to take care of. Sometimes, ICHEOKU wonders if there is any really happy Democrat, except of course those who wear forced fake smile, usually purchased with indulgence in controlled substances. 

Democrats are a very melancholic bunch of people who are permanently afflicted with a never abating inner hurt. They never forgive nor forget, the reason they viciously latched unto the impeachment show of shame, insisted on all or nothing, take no prisoner outcome, until Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi buckled under the weight of their threat to pull funding for the party. 

When everything eventually settles down, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the only one remembered for being responsible for the sham impeachment for authorizing and allowing it to proceed. As for the tools she used, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, they will only remain the footnotes which they are in the impeachment script. A highly partisan pettiness which she gaveled into fruition and it showed in the response of American people, who are not happy with her and her decision to impeach a president for doing nothing impeachable. 

ICHEOKU says shame on Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the somersault which she made by persecuting this impeachment and for drastically lowering the bar of impeachment. 

By impeaching the president, the House Democrats have triggered the doctrine of unintended consequences and they will someday pay a hefty price because of it. It will someday bite them in their rear orifice as it did with the Supreme Court. Harry Reid's had lowered the filibuster rule to het in Sotomayor and Keagan and it came to bite them with Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Also, by impeaching the president the Democrats have freed him and he can now operate more freely. 

The president no longer has any fear of impeachment inhibiting him from completely unleashing the energies of Make America Great Again agenda. The Democrats, having fired their last only shot, will now whimper and whine as the president goes to work, doing the things which he really wanted to do, but was held back by fear of provoking the ire of the Democrats. 

The biggest surprise in the impeachment sham was how easily corralled the House Democrats were. Members, who are supposedly independently representing their various constituents, but who voted to impeach the president against the wishes of their constituents not to impeach the president. They had to fall in line as instructed by Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi just to please the party's henchmen and women who control the party from San Francisco, West Hollywood and Westside Manhattan. 

Nancy Pelosi could please her crazed out, wild eyed, liberal nut jobs in San Francisco constituents who demanded the impeachment; but how about those hardworking Western Pennsylvanian Democrats who did not want the president impeached? Are their own representatives in the House lesser than Nancy Pelosi and are they lesser than Nancy Pelosi's constituents? The last story on the impeachment has not been told as the House Democrats made a very big mistake and it will reverberate on November 3rd, 2020.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

RESTORE THE REPUTATION OF THE FBI: HOLD JAMES COMEY ACCOUNTABLE.

ICHEOKU says regardless of what the government or the director of the FBI does, the integrity and reputation of the once revered law enforcement bureau will never be fully recovered nor restored without holding James Comey and his band of corrupt former FBI officials accountable. The need to do this has never been more imperative as the present and it will in addition be a deterrent to discourage any such future criminal misbehavior. 

The James Comey's FBI scandal is not only a United States of America exclusive internal affairs matter nor is it only about the victim, President Donald John Trump. No, it is beyond both entities and borders on the world wide reputation of the FBI. How does the FBI continue to enjoy, maintain and sustain its reputation as the premier law enforcement entity which it has enjoyed for over the many years of its existence? How does the FBI reassure the American people as well as its world wide partners that its investigations are not tainted and are products of pure forensic findings, not colored or impacted by personal biases. This cloud of suspicion which now hovers over the FBI must be lifted, speedily and transparently. 

So until done, people will continue to view and look at the FBI with suspicion. Although, he personally orchestrated the witch hunt against a duly elected president of the United States ofAmerica, but it impacted the entire strata of the FBI, being its director. The scandal tarnished the image of the men and women of the bureau, their standing in the society and their world wide fame too, which is now permanently tainted. This few bad apples must not be allowed to ruin it for everybody and destroy the hard won reputation of the bureau, working tirelessly to keep criminals in check. The honor of the 37,000 men and women who serve our nation at the FBI, including those who have already served and those who would likely serve in the future, are at stake. 

James Comey and the few confidants he recruited to help him orchestrate this corruption can be sacrificed in the interest of the 37,000 strong force of the bureau whose reputation are equally under the chopping block as members of the corrupt FBI. So the most efficient way to restore their reputation and the overall reputation of the bureau is to isolate those few of them who participated in the scandal and make an example out of them. Every American is waiting and watching to see how the restoration of confidence in the FBI is carried out and for a rather skeptical American society who are always cynical about the government, the scandal did not improve nor allay their fear of the government. 

This shaken confidence of the America people in one of their government bureaus must also be taken into consideration as the FBI struggles to get their reputation back. It therefore must take punitive action against those perpetrators who carried out the sabotage of the bureau's reputation in order to reassure the American society as well as the honed in world that what James Comey did was an isolated case by a rogue cop gone wild and that such is not prevalent within the bureau and that he acted out of sync and did not represent a pervasive act in the FBI. It is imperative that the FBI restores its image as the world's premier law enforcement agency by assuring everyone that the corruption witnessed under James Comey's leadership of the bureau was not system-wide and that it came with him and left with him. 

Nothing else will qualify and this is not about saving their former boss of shielding him from prosecution. No, he seizes being honorable the moment he descended into the sewer of corruption and no member of the bureau should be proud to identify with him. Instead he should be treated as a pariah who brought disrepute to the bureau and every agent and official should be up in arms against him, demanding that he be made an example out of. What he did is simply incomprehensible and should not be tolerated, no matter how measured or analyzed. Many countries of the world are today in turmoil because of rudderless political leadership who corrupted their law enforcement agencies and now uses them to either perpetuate themselves in power or hunt their opponents into extinction; thus leading to unraveling of society. 

This must also be factored in whatever the current leadership of the bureau and the government in general decide to do towards restoring the bureau's reputation. How then does people know and be convinced that there are not thousands of James Comey within the bureau, if he goes unpunished. Posterity too also demands that a deference be instituted by holding James Comey accountable, including losing his pension like Andrew McCabbe if need be. Simply put, there is no meeting of the grounds anywhere short of putting James Comey in handcuffs to assure American people that indeed, no one is above the law. Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her acolytes cannot be parroting the refrain with the examples of Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and James Comey still freely traversing the land. 

If ICHEOKU had his way, would also seize whatever proceeds that came from James Comey' "Higher Ground" book of self adoration and merited adulation, as a fruit of illegitimacy.  Such a fella as James Comey should not be allowed to profit from illegality, misleading  and knowingly lying to American people; and also for  causing such untoward  damage to the reputation of America's foremost law enforcement bureau. The Inspector General literary indicted him, except that his assignment did not come criminal indictments. James Comey is a disgrace to the FBI and the American society in whole that such a rogue cop blatancy lied and proclaimed his "innocence" when he knew that he was as guilty as sin. Somebody need to be held accountable for what took place and that person is James Comey,

Friday, December 20, 2019

NANCY PELOSI: A PERSONIFICATION OF WHAT IS WRONG WITH WOMEN.

ICHEOKU says any chance of a woman ever becoming president of the United States of America has further been diminished and delayed by what is unfolding in the House of Representatives under the leadership of Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She is angry, she is petulant, she is petty, her straight faced lying is annoyingly disgusting and she has such an air of untouchability around her that she even scolds reporters for asking her questions she does not like; and then she decides what questions she wants to answer or attempts to answer whenever her clenched jaws permits air to pass through her false teeth. She also makes the rules as she went, including the manner the phony impeachment was conducted in the House of Representatives. 

For the first time in the history of impeachments, the House Intelligence committee was made the arrow head of the impeachment inquiry, instead of the traditional Judicial Committee. Her probable reason for making the switch being that she does not trust New York's Jerry Nadler enough to handle the investigation and turned to her fellow Californian anarchist Adam Schiff to lead the charge. Again, she lied to the American people that the House of Representatives was rushing through the impeachment process because of the exigency of the now that makes President Donald John Trump an existential threat to America, who should not be allowed to remain in office, not a day longer. Witnesses for the president and the Republican Party were rebuffed and refused appearance on probably her orders and every other thing associated with the maniacal hoopla were fast tracked just to speed up to the end game. 

Her corralled ravenous rabble rousers Democratic Party members of the House impeached the president, yet she is refusing to forward the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate as required by the Constitution. This is the same crazed out wild eyed feminist extraordinaire who accused the president of violating the Constitution with her now cliched "no one is above the law" refrain; but she herself is now in flagrant violation of the Constitutional requirement that Articles of Impeachment must be speedily forwarded to the Senate. Once again, she is changing the rules of the game in the middle of the game and trying to hijack the trial process in the Senate. She is of the lower chamber of Congress but wants to dictate to the upper chamber how to conduct their business' but no body dictated to her how she conducted the impeachment at the lower House.

It is unfortunate that Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi could descend to such a low abyss just to settle a score against a president, whose only crime was that he defeated their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton. What would this woman not do to get the president damaged, yet she claims to be a Christian and prays for the president; but supports the killing of babies and was this mean in persecuting the president. What manner of Christianity does she practice that does not heed the instructions in the Bible. It is terrifying what Nancy Pelosi did and was prepared to do with her power as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Now you know why American men and a whole lot of women are wary and not excitedly disposed to having a female president, at least not now and not in the nearest future. 

They don't abide by the rules, especially when they have an agenda, which they often do; and above all, they never take responsibility for their actions. So expecting her to make atonement for this by apologizing to the American people is not an option as she will never do it nor ever admit that she proceeded wrongly and with bad intention. ICHEOKU  used to admire this woman but not any more; especially since she elevated Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to a pedestal not ever occupied by newbie freshman member of the House. This fatal mistake led to the confusion that heralded this misguided impeachment; it was too short sighted as what goes around always has a way of coming around. ICHEOKU says shame on Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi for taking the country through this charade and doing it with wild eyes. She is called crazy Nancy for a reason and she did not disappoint. The woman is nuts.

Thursday, December 19, 2019

MITCH MCCONNELL IS DAMN GOOD: TAKES NANCY PELOSI TO THE WOODSHED.

‘Over the last 12 weeks, House Democrats have conducted the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history. Now their slapdash process has concluded in the first purely partisan presidential impeachment since the wake of the Civil War. The opposition to impeachment was bipartisan. Only one part of one faction wanted this outcome. 

The House’s conduct risks deeply damaging the institutions of American government. This particular House of Representatives has let its partisan rage at this particular President create a toxic new precedent that will echo into the future.‘That’s what I want to discuss now: The historic degree to which House Democrats have failed to do their duty — and what it will mean for the Senate to do ours.‘Let’s start at the beginning. Let’s start with the fact that Washington Democrats made up their minds to impeach President Trump since before he was even inaugurated. 

Here’s a reporter in April 2016. Quote, “Donald Trump isn’t even the Republican nominee yet… [but] ‘Impeachment’ is already on the lips of pundits, newspaper editorials, constitutional scholars, and even a few members of Congress. On Inauguration Day 2017, this headline in the Washington Post: The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.” That was day one.‘In April 2017, three months into the presidency, a senior House Democrat said “I’m going to fight every day until he’s impeached.” That was three months in.‘In December 2017, two years ago, Congressman Jerry Nadler was openly campaigning to be ranking member on House Judiciary specifically because he was an expert on impeachment.‘This week wasn’t even the first time House Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment. It was the seventh time. 

They started less than six months after the president was sworn in.‘They tried to impeach President Trump for being impolite to the press… For being mean to professional athletes… For changing President Obama’s policy on transgender people in the military.‘All of these things were “high crimes and misdemeanors” according to Democrats.‘This wasn’t just a few people. Scores of Democrats voted to move forward with impeachment on three of those prior occasions. So let’s be clear. The House’s vote yesterday was not some neutral judgment that Democrats came to reluctantly. It was the pre-determined end of a partisan crusade that began before President Trump was even nominated, let alone sworn in. 

For the very first time in modern history we have seen a political faction in Congress promise from the moment a presidential election ended that they would find some way to overturn it.‘A few months ago, Democrats’ three-year-long impeachment in search of articles found its way to the subject of Ukraine. And House Democrats embarked on the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.‘Chairman Schiff’s inquiry was poisoned by partisanship from the outset. Its procedures and parameters were unfair in unprecedented ways. Democrats tried to make Chairman Schiff into a de facto Special Prosecutor, notwithstanding the fact that he is a partisan member of Congress who’d already engaged in strange and biased behavior. 

He scrapped precedent to cut the Republican minority out of the process. He denied President Trump the same sorts of procedural rights that Houses of both parties had provided to past presidents of both parties.‘President Trump’s counsel could not participate in Chairman Schiff’s hearings, present evidence, or cross-examine witnesses. The House Judiciary Committee’s crack at this was even more ahistorical. It was like the Speaker called up Chairman Nadler and ordered one impeachment, rush delivery please.‘That Committee found no facts of its own and did nothing to verify the Schiff report. Their only witnesses were liberal law professors and congressional staffers. 

There’s a reason the impeachment inquiry that led to President Nixon’s resignation required about 14 months of hearings. 14 months. In addition to a special prosecutor’s investigation.‘With President Clinton, the independent counsel’s inquiry had been underway for years before the House Judiciary Committee dug in. Mountains of evidence. Mountains of testimony from firsthand fact witnesses. Serious legal battles to get what was necessary.‘This time around, House Democrats skipped all of that and spent just 12 weeks.‘More than a year of hearings for Nixon… multiple years of investigation for Clinton… and they’ve impeached President Trump in 12 weeks. So let’s talk about what the House actually produced in those 12 weeks.‘House Democrats’ rushed and rigged inquiry yielded two articles of impeachment. 

They are fundamentally unlike any articles that any prior House of Representatives has ever passed.‘The first article concerns the core events which House Democrats claim are impeachable — the timing of aid to Ukraine.‘But it does not even purport to allege any actual crime. Instead, they deploy this vague phrase, “abuse of power,” to impugn the president’s actions in a general, indeterminate way.‘Speaker Pelosi’s House just gave into a temptation that every other House in history had managed to resist: They impeached a president whom they do not even allege has committed an actual crime known to our laws. They impeached simply because they disagree with a presidential act and question the motive behind it. 

Look at history. The Andrew Johnson impeachment revolved around a clear violation of a criminal statute, albeit an unconstitutional one. Nixon had obstruction of justice — a felony under our laws. Clinton had perjury — also a felony.‘Now, the Constitution does not say the House can impeach only those presidents who violate a law.‘But history matters. Precedent matters. And there were important reasons why every previous House of Representatives in American history restrained itself from crossing this Rubicon.‘The framers of our Constitution very specifically discussed whether the House should be able to impeach presidents just for “maladministration”— in other words, because the House simply thought the president had bad judgment or was doing a bad job. 

The written records of the founders’ debates show they specifically rejected this. They realized it would create total dysfunction to set the bar for impeachment that low.‘James Madison himself explained that allowing impeachment on that basis would mean the President serves at the pleasure of the Congress instead of the pleasure of the American people.‘It would make the President a creature of Congress, not the head of a separate and equal branch. So there were powerful reasons why Congress after Congress for 230 years required presidential impeachments to revolve around clear, recognizable crimes, even though that was not a strict limitation. 

Powerful reasons why, for 230 years, no House opened the Pandora’s box of subjective, political impeachments.‘That 230-year tradition died last night.‘Now, House Democrats have tried to say they had to impeach President Trump on this historically thin and subjective basis because the White House challenged their requests for more witnesses.‘And that brings us to the second article of impeachment. The House titled this one “obstruction of Congress.” What it really does is impeach the president for asserting presidential privilege. The concept of executive privilege is another two-century-old constitutional tradition. Presidents starting with George Washington have invoked it. Federal courts have repeatedly affirmed it as a legitimate constitutional power. 

House Democrats requested extraordinary amounts of sensitive information from President Trump’s White House — exactly the kinds of things over which presidents of both parties have asserted privilege in the past.‘Predictably, and appropriately, President Trump did not simply roll over. He defended the constitutional authority of his office. It is not a constitutional crisis for a House to want more information than a president wants to give up. It is a routine occurrence. The separation of powers is messy by design. Here’s what should happen next: Either the President and Congress negotiate a settlement, or the third branch of government, the judiciary, addresses the dispute between the other two. 

The Nixon impeachment featured disagreements over presidential privilege — so they went to the courts. The Clinton impeachment featured disagreements over presidential privilege — so they went to the courts.mThis takes time. It’s inconvenient. That’s actually the point. Due process is not meant to maximize the convenience of the prosecutor. It is meant to protect the accused. But this time was different. Remember: 14 months of hearings for Richard Nixon… years of investigation for Bill Clinton… but 12 weeks for President Trump.‘Democrats didn’t have to rush this. But they chose to stick to their political timetable at the expense of pursuing more evidence through proper legal channels. 

Nobody made Chairman Schiff do this. He chose to.‘The Tuesday before last, on live television, Adam Schiff explained to the entire country that if House Democrats had let the justice system follow its normal course, they might not have gotten to impeach the president in time for the election!‘In Nixon, the courts were allowed to do their work. In Clinton, the courts were allowed to do their work. Only these House Democrats decided due process is too much work and they’d rather impeach with no proof.And, they tried to cover for their own partisan impatience by pretending that the routine occurrence of a president exerting constitutional privilege is itself a second impeachable offense. 

The following is something that Adam Schiff literally said in early October. Here’s what he said: “Any action… that forces us to litigate, or have to consider litigation, will be considered further evidence of obstruction of justice.”‘Here is what the Chairman effectively said, and what one of his committee members restated just this week: If the President asserts his constitutional rights, it’s that much more evidence he is guilty.‘That kind of bullying is antithetical to American justice.‘So those are House Democrats’ two articles of impeachment. That’s all their rushed and rigged inquiry could generate: An act that the House does not even allege is criminal; and a nonsensical claim that exercising a legitimate presidential power is somehow an impeachable offense. 

This is by far the thinnest basis for any House-passed presidential impeachment in American history. The thinnest and the weakest — and nothing else comes even close.‘And candidly, I don’t think I am the only person around here who realizes this. Even before the House voted yesterday, Democrats had already started to signal uneasiness with its end product.‘Before the articles even passed, the Senate Democratic Leader went on television to demand that this body re-do House Democrats’ homework for them. That the Senate should supplement Chairman Schiff’s sloppy work so it is more persuasive than Chairman Schiff himself bothered to make it. 

Of course, every such demand simply confirms that House Democrats have rushed forward with a case that is much too weak.‘Back in June, Speaker Pelosi promised the House would, quote, “build an ironclad case.” Never mind that she was basically promising impeachment months before the Ukraine events, but that’s a separate matter.‘She promised “an ironclad case.”‘And in March, Speaker Pelosi said this: “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, because it divides the country.” End quote. By the Speaker’s own standards, she has failed the country. This case is not compelling, not overwhelming, and as a result, not bipartisan. 

This failure was made clear to everyone earlier this week, when Senator Schumer began searching for ways the Senate could step out of our proper role and try to fix House Democrats’ failures for them.‘And it was made even more clear last night, when Speaker Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their work product to the Senate.‘The prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial.‘They said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process but now they’re content to sit on their hands. It is comical.‘Democrats’ own actions concede that their allegations are unproven.‘But the articles aren’t just unproven. 

They’re also constitutionally incoherent. Frankly, if either of these articles is blessed by the Senate, we could easily see the impeachment of every future president of either party.‘Let me say that again: If the Senate blesses this historically low bar, we will invite the impeachment of every future president.‘The House Democrats’ allegations, as presented, are incompatible with our constitutional order. They are unlike anything that has ever been seen in 230 years of this Republic.‘House Democrats want to create new rules for this president because they feel uniquely enraged. But long after the partisan fever of this moment has broken, the institutional damage will remain.‘I’ve described the threat to the presidency. 

But this also imperils the Senate itself.‘The House has created an unfair, unfinished product that looks nothing like any impeachment inquiry in American history. And if the Speaker ever gets her house in order, that mess will be dumped on the Senate’s lap.‘If the Senate blesses this slapdash impeachment… if we say that from now on, this is enough… then we will invite an endless parade of impeachment trials.‘Future Houses of either party will feel free to toss up a “jump ball” every time they feel angry. Free to swamp the Senate with trial after trial, no matter how baseless the charges.‘We would be giving future Houses of either party unbelievable new power to paralyze the Senate at their whim.‘More thin arguments. 

More incomplete evidence. More partisan impeachments.In fact, this same House of Representatives has already indicated that they themselves may not be done impeaching!‘The House Judiciary Committee told a federal court this week that it will continue its impeachment investigation even after voting on these articles. And multiple Democratic members have already called publicly for more.‘If the Senate blesses this, if the nation accepts it, presidential impeachments may cease being once-in-a-generation events and become a constant part of the political background noise.‘This extraordinary tool of last resort may become just another part of the arms race of polarization. 

Real statesmen would have recognized, no matter their view of this president, that trying to remove him on this thin and partisan basis could unsettle the foundations of our Republic.‘Real statesmen would have recognized, no matter how much partisan animosity might be coursing through their veins, that cheapening the impeachment process was not the answer.‘Historians will regard this as a great irony of this era: That so many who professed such concern for our norms and traditions themselves proved willing to trample our constitutional order to get their way. 

It is long past time for Washington D.C. to get a little perspective.‘President Trump is not the first president with a populist streak…Not the first to make entrenched elites uncomfortable. He’s certainly not the first president to speak bluntly… to mistrust the administrative state… or to rankle unelected bureaucrats.‘And Heaven knows he is not our first president to assert the constitutional privileges of his office rather than roll over when Congress demands unlimited sensitive information.‘None of these things is unprecedented. 

I’ll tell you what would be unprecedented. It will be an unprecedented constitutional crisis if the Senate hands the House of Representatives a new, partisan “vote of no confidence” that the founders intentionally withheld, destroying the independence of the presidency.‘It will be unprecedented if we agree that any future House that dislikes any future president can rush through an unfair inquiry, skip the legal system, and paralyze the Senate with a trial. The House could do that at will under this precedent.‘It will be unprecedented if the Senate says secondhand and thirdhand testimony from unelected civil servants is enough to overturn the people’s vote.‘It will be an unprecedented constitutional crisis if the Senate agrees to set the bar this low — forever.‘It is clear what this moment requires. It requires the Senate to fulfill our founding purpose. 

The framers built the Senate to provide stability. To take the long view for our Republic. To safeguard institutions from the momentary hysteria that sometimes consumes our politics. To keep partisan passions from boiling over.‘The Senate exists for moments like this.‘That’s why this body has the ultimate say in impeachments.‘The framers knew the House would be too vulnerable to transient passions and violent factionalism. They needed a body that could consider legal questions about what has been proven and political questions about what the common good of our nation requires.‘Hamilton said explicitly in Federalist 65 that impeachment involves not just legal questions, but inherently political judgments about what outcome best serves the nation. 

The House can’t do both. The courts can’t do both.‘This is as grave an assignment as the Constitution gives to any branch of government, and the framers knew only the Senate could handle it. Well, the moment the framers feared has arrived.‘A political faction in the lower chamber have succumbed to partisan rage. They have fulfilled Hamilton’s prophesy that impeachment will, quote, “connect itself with the pre-existing factions… enlist all their animosities… [and] 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.” End quote.‘That is what happened in the House last night. The vote did not reflect what had been proven. It only reflects how they feel about the President. 

The Senate must put this right. We must rise to the occasion.‘There is only one outcome that is suited to the paucity of evidence, the failed inquiry, the slapdash case.‘Only one outcome suited to the fact that the accusations themselves are constitutionally incoherent.‘Only one outcome that will preserve core precedents rather than smash them into bits in a fit of partisan rage because one party still cannot accept the American people’s choice in 2016.‘It could not be clearer which outcome would serve the stabilizing, institution-preserving, fever-breaking role for which the United States Senate was created… and which outcome would betray it.‘The Senate’s duty is clear. The Senate’s duty is clear.‘When the time comes, we must fulfill it.’