Comments on: The Democrats want to define Trump being president as a high crime and misdemeanor https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465709 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:56:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465709 Just in closing, on the subject of political appointees to ambassadorships, these appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.

They all are. The constitution requires that ‘ambassadors’, ‘heads of executive departments’, and the superordinate layers of the judiciary receive Senate confirmation. (Statutory law provides for a much more extensive menu of executive positions requiring such confirmation; it’s really a big waste of everyone’s time).

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465708 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:50:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465708 Trump has flip-flopped mightily between enthusiastic Democrat and begrudging Republican many times.

He was never an enthusiastic Democrat. He was a Republican from 1969 to 1985, then flipped back and forth between Republican, Democratic and non-partisan (“blank” in New York parlance) registration. He’s a New York businessman and to New York businessmen, politicians are fungible. Real estate development is abnormally dependent on the regulatory regime, and the discretion incorporated into that regime exceeds that you find in other realms. You need to build relationships with politicians so your permits get approved.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465707 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:45:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465707 What about Trump’s court picks? Why that would be spun as the second coming of Scoop Jackson, D-WA.

No, it wouldn’t. Jackson was a dissident within the Democratic Party because he never bought into functional pacifism and craven deference to the sort of grifters you find in Third World governments and international NGOs. He was a mainstream labor-oriented Democrat in every other respect (and mainstream in every respect prior to 1968).

]]> By: Micha Elyi https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465692 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 05:28:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465692

I think the outrage the left feels towards Trump boils down to two main issues.

I disagree. The Left’s “outrage… towards Trump” is due to one and only one thing: Trump didn’t run as a Democrat.

Trump has flip-flopped mightily between enthusiastic Democrat and begrudging Republican many times. Mr. New York City Values has also been Hillary Clinton’s favorite campaign donor. There is little that Trump has done that couldn’t be heralded as accomplishments of a Democrat agenda. What about Trump’s court picks? Why that would be spun as the second coming of Scoop Jackson, D-WA.

]]> By: Griffin https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465690 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 05:17:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465690 Can you imagine if Trump said he just heard about anything in the newspaper.

It really is breathtaking the difference in the coverage and the benefit of the doubt given and not given to the last two presidents.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465689 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 05:11:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465689 Thanks – I remember the incident, but didn’t remember seeing it used as a nom for Obama.
Lying was his standard operating procedure.

I just noticed that POS and SOP are palindromes —

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465663 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 03:29:47 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465663 Too, I believe AesopFan, that he was asked in a press conference when he learned Clinton was disobeying classification security protocol and this was one of a number of occasions when his response was I learned it from newspaper reporting, just like everyone else. POS.

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465661 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 03:21:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465661 Obama, who communicated with HRC on her insecure server using a pseudonym. I aim to harp on it, that’s all.

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465660 Sun, 17 Nov 2019 03:14:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465660 sdferr – I’m all in favor of affectations, but I don’t remember who you are referring to by “Pseudonym.”
Help??

]]> By: sdferr https://thenewneo.com/2019/11/15/the-democrats-want-to-define-trump-being-president-as-a-high-crime-and-misdemeanor/#comment-2465573 Sat, 16 Nov 2019 20:27:17 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=91199#comment-2465573 So you believe Democrats will be punished for this impeachment charade the feedback will be dampened and things won’t go further? Could be.

Yes, I think they will suffer at the polls, though I’m not sure they’ll even risk a vote to impeach. But the charade is beginning to be widely understood, better so with every misstep. Whether other “things” of a deleterious nature ensue (perhaps precisely on account of the polarization you see), I don’t know, can’t tell. But I do think the Dems have a lesson coming. And expect they’ll learn something from it.

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