Hey, it’s the old “Son, this’ll hurt me a lot more than it’ll hurt you” trick!!

Oh those compassionate Dems!!!… Those pillars of thoughtfulness. Those paragons of consideration….

Are Lowry’s sources good? Not sure he needs sources. All he has to be able to do is read (outside the MSM) and work it out for himself—though granted, that does seem to be supremely difficult for a lot of people these days…

He is partisan, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be fair; for example, as far as “a flagrantly incomplete factual record” goes, I think he’s being rather charitable….

The House is preparing to send a flagrantly incomplete factual record to the Senate as the basis of an effort to remove a sitting president for the first time in our history.

–Rich Lowry, “Why House Dems bent on half-arsed impeachment”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1119/lowry112619.php3

Hmm. I wonder how good Lowry’s sources are.

The excerpt from Anton. I suspect that the vast majority of us underestimate the extent to which the environment in DC functions as a vast transactional array of threats and bribes.

A classic example is conviction of Gov. Blagojevich. He attempted to sell a Senate seat for roughly $1M. Not a wad of cash of course, but 3 years of a sinecure at $330K/year. Plausible deniability. His response then and even now was/is, “What? You think this is unusual?” I’m amazed at how cheap these jokers are.

Then there is the secondary issue that the prosecutors really overstepped their bounds by trying the case in the media before the trial. I want to care about prosecutorial abuses, but find it hard to do so when they take out a snake.

“He’s guilty and would be impeached and removed except for all those corrupt Republican Senators who won’t vote to remove him. He’s guilty and the Republicans are too corrupt to do their Constitutional duty.”

Ah ha. Control of the Senate could be a factor. There are three avenues going forward.

1) Pelosi stops short of impeachment and referral to the Senate (that’s Rush’s theory).
2) Trump’s impeached and it’s referred to the Senate where judge McConnell dismisses the case.
3) It’s referred to the Senate, there’s a trial and all or almost all GOP senators vote to acquit.

With 1) the Dems can claim that the GOP senators hypothetically would have voted to acquit (those corrupt SoB’s), but it’s a weak campaign claim.

With 2) McConnell probably wouldn’t dismiss without consulting his party members. So now the campaign claim is a little stronger.

But the campaign against GOP senators is the strongest if they force them to vote against convicting Trump. This all is moot if public sentiment really turns against impeachment.

8. The inquiry doesn’t only damage Trump; the repeated references to corruption in the Ukraine damage Biden. This weakens him as a candidate, which will strengthen the position of more leftist candidates within the Democratic party. So even if Trump wins, the Leftists also win.

File under: Hypocrisy unbound.

It may leave the base frustrated, but it allows Democrats a minor moral victory, while avoiding the pitfalls of a Senate trial or an electoral disaster for their candidates in red regions.

Trump will still crow exoneration and let slip the dogs of nyah-nyah.