You can tell the impeachment inquiry is stacking up against the president. Evidence continues to flow. One revelation after another, even with the closed door hearings used to vet witnesses, new allegations continue to appear. Witnesses that are credible. Their demeanor representative of what we grew up knowing about our government – quiet, resolute, polite, careful wording, respectful of the past, the present and the future that we all must prepare for. That’s how it was.
Nice to watch the impeachment hearings and see such adult conduct.
The newscasts are anything but. The president and his administration reps speak continually of how poorly the proceedings are going - "the Dem's case is falling apart. No impeachable offense is yet visible." And so on and so on. They speak the words they want us to believe.
But we can’t. Their words are empty signals of political bias for the man who has given them much – fancy salaries and benefits, gamesmanship aplenty, and ideological skews that make grown men cry. Embarrassing, really. Simply embarrassing that these people exist in their bubble and do not believe facts of history, facts of science, logic of math, or common decency of humankind.
Their mission is different from everyone else’s.
What that mission is remains a mystery. Not transparent. Not logical. Benefitting whom, you ask? I ask as well but know no answer. Nor do they. Empty. Illogical. So much so, it is scary.
No, the impeachment inquiry and related hearings are going quite well. The constitutional process is open, transparent, and filled with due process. It is not a court of law and does not contain the same process, but it maintains fairness and openness. Just like the impeachment preparations for Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. The same process. The same diligence of detail. hard work. Logical and factual.
Our times are not of old. They are of new. Divisive, nasty, personal. The ends justify the means.
Really? Are we going to let that hatefulness rule our nation? And that shallowness?
We can do much better. We will. Time is on the side of truth.
November 19, 2019
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