Let’s remember what Ted Cruz said: “If you have the facts, you bang the facts. If you have the law, you bang the law. If you don’t have either, you bang the table. Today, we’ve seen a whole lot of table banging.” How’s this for table banging? This is from the NY Times front page with their main bullet points
Democrats PRess Obstruction Case Against Trump
Days of Arguments Wrap Up With a Dire Warning
-House impeachment managers concluded their case against President Trump with an emphatic call for his removal. “He is a dictator,†Representative Jerry Nadler said.
-Republicans appeared unmoved — not just on the question of whether to acquit Mr. Trump, but on whether to compel witnesses and documents, too.
Wait, what was that dictator part?
[Schiff] and the six other managers prosecuting the president spent much of Friday tying up the facts of the second charge, obstruction of Congress, and arguing that Mr. Trump’s attempts to shut down a congressional inquiry into his actions toward Ukraine was unprecedented and undermined the very ability of the government to correct itself.
“He is a dictator,†said Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York. “This must not stand.â€
If he was a dictator, there would be no impeachment theater. Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi, and the rest would have been rounded up long ago. Their would be no #NeverTrump movement, at least not an open one. The news would not be speaking out against him. He’d be passing rules with his pen and phone, right, avoiding the duly elected legislative branch, right? Na, even that doesn’t make a president a dictator.
We refer to this as theater. It’s becoming clearer and clearer that that is all it is. The Democrats are playing to their base and the unhinged #NeverTrumpers on the right. They want this stuff on the news, hoping to pick off some Trump voters for the general election. They don’t have to get them to vote Democrat, just to not vote Trump. They knew from the start this was going to fail, because they had no evidence. Hence, the obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, while failing to actually include the quid pro quo/bribery stuff that (supposedly) started this whole thing, based on 3rd and 4th hand hearsay. They knew that getting to 67 votes to boot Trump would be impossible. Now they go completely over the top, making it even more impossible. Here’s Excitable Adam Schiff
Mr. Schiff’s fiery final oration appeared to alienate the very Republicans he was trying to win over. When he referred to an anonymously sourced news report that Republican senators had been warned that their heads would be “on a pike†if they voted against Mr. Trump, several of them vigorously shook their heads and broke their sworn silence: “not true.â€
As the Times points out in a separate article, this delighted the left and enraged the right. This almost guarantees that the squishes on the GOP side won’t vote to boot Trump. Democrats will then claim that the whole thing was rigged, that the GOP didn’t want to listen, that they don’t care. Think about Democrats saying that it is a conspiracy if Republicans don’t vote to boot Trump. Now it’s time for Mitch McConnell and Trump to turn this around on Democrats.
