Lite is for Beer

If I might explain something to you, President Donald
John Trump, there is nothing light about impeachment.
Your distain for all that is sacred in the Constitution of
the United States is appalling.  You sir, are being
impeached! It will forever be a stain on your presidency,
in the history of the United States you will only be the
third president to bear this shame.  And as long as there
is a Republic it will there on your family name.  Your
children and your children's children will carry your
mark of shame.

You can joke about it, and laugh about it, but I guarantee
you, anyone with a modicum of sense is not laughing with
you, they are laughing at you, sir.  You are a disgrace to
this country and all its citizens.  And now it is there for
the entire world to see.

So, continue to hold your rallies and try to undermine
what the elected members of the House of Representatives
have charged you with.  I'm sure those thousands in your
audience, whom you hire to cheer you on, will continue
to cheer.  I know you need that constant reaffirmation;
without it you cannot function.  You surround yourself
with sycophants who massage your ego, they live in
fear of hearing the words "You're Fired".  But once they
are free from your tyranny, they regain their voice, and
recount the days of total disarray in your administration.
Soon there will be more of them on the outside than on
the inside.  What then Mr. Trump?

What I despise most about your presidency is the
contagion of prevarication that is spreading throughout
the Republican Party.  Senators, who once were held in
high regard are now seen for what they truly are; sniveling
cowards who shrink in fear of your angry tweets, as though
they were shouts of 'off with their heads'.  Do you not see,
you in the Senate, if you were to stand together and expose
this charlatan for whom he is, your constituents would see it
also?  And even if they didn't, if they reject you at the ballot
box, at least you can go out with your honor intact.

I fear, like sheep to the slaughter you follow the traitor goat,
you will be judged by history, and it won't be kindly.  If you
cannot see what will happen when this man is returned to
power, you are blind fools.  You understand what damage he
has already done to our country's image in the world.  And now
Donald Trump is being charged with acts against the
Constitution of the United States, that same document that you
swore to protect and defend from enemies foreign and domestic,
when you took your oath of office.  You trade your sacred honor
for what?   Trump's disgrace is your disgrace, when you lowered
yourself to his level you took on his ignominy and you will wear
it forever.

So, next week when the Articles of Impeachment arrive in the Senate,
think about your vote.  Your leader, Mitch McConnel, has already
said he may not call any witnesses.  Of course he won't.  There is
no defense for what the president has done, and McConnel fears
that not everyone he could call would risk perjury for the
president.  After all, they also remember what happened to those
who did perjure themselves in the Nixon hearing.  And not
everyone looks good in prison orange.  Let me ask you this, if
you cannot call one member of the president's council to offer
a defense for him, why are you?

I' just sayin'.
   

Get 'er Done

And so, it comes to this, tomorrow the United States House
of Representatives will begin drafting the Articles of'
Impeachment against the president of the United States,
Donald J. Trump.  They will pass along party lines, Democrats
close to unanimous, will vote for impeachment and the
Republicans, most probably unanimously, will vote against
them. From there they will go onto the Senate where the
Republicans hold the majority, and after a sham trial, Donald
Trump will be found not guilty of all charges.

I said not guilty, I did not say innocent, because Trump is
not innocent.  he committed all those things he stands accused
of.  That is not what is on trial here, what is on trial is whether
the Republican Senators put their loyalty to a flawed president
above their country, and the oath of office they took when they
were sworn in as a Senator.  And I sincerely hope that they vote
to acquit Trump, and let me explain my reasoning.

This all began as the result of the Mueller Report, when Robert
Mueller found there was no proof of overt collusion between
the Trump Campaign and the Russian government Trump felt
exonerated.  The report as presented by the Attorney General,
William Barr, appeared to find no wrong doings, but in fact
that is not what the report said.  The report said that since a
sitting president cannot be indicted, the Mueller Commission
did not look into the charges of obstruction of justice.  They
left that to the House of representative to examine.

Trump was so emboldened by this report, that the very next
day he propositioned the Ukrainian government, to, as he said,
"do us a favor".  He wanted the Ukrainians to announce, publicly,
that they were investigating wrong doing by Hunter Biden, the
son of Joe Biden, who was supposed to be Trumps leading rival
for the 2020 presidential election.  To insure the favor, Trump was
withholding $400 thousand in military aide already approved.
However, also listening on the phone conversation, were several
State Department employees, one of whom found this so disturbing
that he reported it to his superior.  This started the ball in motion,
resulting in where we find ourselves now.

If the president was so reckless because he felt the Mueller Report
was, 'so much ado about nothing', how do you suppose he will take
the Republican's blatant lock-step approval of what he did as a result?
As it stands, Trump feels that as president he can do no wrong, because
as he stated, he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a vote.
And that is pretty close to right, he has shredded the Constitution and
not lost a vote, instead he has Republican Senators extolling his
greatness.  I fear what Trump has on his agenda after taking his victory
lap.

I hope one thing, when the House gets together to draft the Articles of
Impeachment, they include everything, every wrong doing by the
president.  I hope they go back to the Mueller Report and list the
incidences of obstruction of justice, I hope the list every incident of
obstruction of Congress stemming from his ignoring subpoenas and
directing his minions not to testify.  I hope they list every incident of
bribery, and withholding funds which have been approved by
Congress.  List them all, and lay them all out for the voters to see.

And then I hope the Senate makes quick work of the impeachment trial.
In-out, one and done, Not Guilty!  I hope every Republican Senator must
stand and pronounce Donald J. Trump not guilty of every illegal act
perpetrated against the Constitution, in front of god and country.  Then
let us get back to governing again.  And let the Senators, who are running
for president on the democratic ticket in 2020, get back to campaigning.
And let them repeat the charges against the president, over and over again.

It is well known that the voting public has an attention span of a three-year
old.  They will soon forget the impeachment trial, heck, most of them won't
have watched it.  But they will remember what Trump did, and what he will
still be doing.  You can bet he will be pushing the envelope at home and
abroad, charging like the bull elephant that he is.  The let us see if the
Republicans can control him, if they couldn't before, good luck now that
he is sure of their undivided support.

It is true you will remember a bad meal much longer than an excellent
dinner.  And you will be less likely to return to a place where you were
treated badly.  And even though Trump's base will still stand behind him,
it is the voters in the middle ground that will be wondering if they want
to entrust the government to those who allowed Trump to get away with
so many shady activities.  To say nothing of what he will be doing in the
interim.  Those middle of the ground voters will not be inclined to give
Trump another bite of the apple either.

I firmly believe this impeachment move by the Democrats will work in
their favor, and that  is why Nancy Pelosi is hurrying it along.  She can
see the same thing, and Trump is playing right into her hand.  But then
she knew that would happen also, Trump's ego would have it no other way.

I'm just sayin'.