In Conclusion

Or not, because it will never be over.

I guess the public impeachment hearings are over, and Rep Schiff in what can best be described as self-righteous indigitation bemoans the fact the President doesn’t trust the deep state and those partisan Republicans refuse to criticize him for not totally believing the bureaucrats who’ve stood against his election.

For me, the one remarkable thing is how Schiff can look into the camera and feign the outrage when he had no problem defending “his president” when Obama was accused of using the government against his opponents.  I guess this really shouldn’t be remarkable to me, it has gone on with increasing regularity since I’ve bothered to pay attention to the politics of our Federal Government.  It was true during the Johnson years, Nixon, Carter, Reagan and everyone else.  What has changed, and it changed in the 1990s when we removed the sense of tradition and now see impeachment as just another political tool to use to vilify the opposition.

As I said at the beginning of this whole impeachment drumbeat if the President is impeached by the house, he won’t be removed by the Senate.  No matter how sanctimonious Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff may sound it is all simply theater.  What this impeachment will do is open the door for every President who doesn’t have control of both houses in the Congress to be investigated with an eye towards impeachment.  Heaven-help the individual who has a minority in both houses for then removal becomes a real possibility.

Neither the deep-state nor the career Washington politicians give a tinker’s dam about the “will of the people.”  It is purely a game of power, not unlike the “Game of Thrones.”