Pay no attention to the guy behind the curtain
Published 11-14-2019
Shampeachment gets going for real this week, with the continued release of testimony and announcement of witnesses for public testimony by Congressman Adam Schiff. Most curiously, the whistleblower didn’t make the list. It’s most obviously an oversight for Democrats, who have repeatedly claimed transparency and fairness in a process that is nakedly partisan nonsense.
In a huge win for due process and rule of law, the President will not apparently have his “day in court” as it were, to face his accuser. Congressman Schiff has decided to craft an impeachable saga on the continuing testimony of bureaucrats and partisan diplomats who’s fears and opinions were crafted not by objective facts, but by media reports centered on anonymous sources and office gossip.
I don’t know about you, but I wrongly assumed for quite a long time that the “only the best people” running our country were actually chosen from the best people... but after reading through some of the now public testimony I realized that not only do we not hire the best people, fair-to-middling might actually be a stretch for many of these folks.
Most laughedly, after weeks of democrat congressmen like Ted Lieu and Eric Swalwell leaving the hearing rooms and heading straight towards cameras to declare “devastating testimony” the actual transcripts show a much different picture. Instead of devastation for the President, we see more of the professional class deciding what’s best for Americans. Instead we see diplomats, working in concert with military industry and business lobbyists to push a preferred policy direction, contra to the President’s stated goals and intentions.
And when the President has the temerity to buck “conventional wisdom” and “interagency consensus”? Instead of acting with honor and stepping down at the start of the new administration, or resigning if you can not do the job despite personal beliefs, no, this little cadre took jobs specifically to be the ones to cause trouble and sow chaos.
You know, another level of insurance policy for the Obama Legacy, which was slated to begin being dismantled come Inauguration. That January 5th meeting memorialized by Susan Rice on Inauguration Day as she was leaving the West Wing for the last time begins to take on a much more sinister appearance in light of what has been reported.
The reported whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, visited the Obama White House over 200 times while working for the CIA. Congressional Democrats have gone so far as to threaten congress members with ethics investigations if they speak his name in the upcoming public hearings, which isn’t actually against the law, for elected officials or anyone but the Inspector General. Most ironic, Schiff’s Intelligence Committee staff missed a mention of Ciaramella’s name in the released testimony from last week.
It seems more likely Democrats aren’t calling the whistle blower in for testimony, or allowing any of the Republican’s requested witnesses out of necessity to their narrative. Believing the hype, or the sound bites, can do that to you. And the case for impeachment has always been about the conclusion rather than the substance, especially in the Trump Era. It’s not like there’s anything more than political power at stake.
Why should any of us expect anything better at this point from Democrats, or Congress? They’ve been living in their own reality for quite a while already.