I was in the little shack behind my main shack, rooting around for a rusty old window fan. Swamp Rabbit was in the main shack, watching the rerun of a cable news story from last night.
“It’s Al Green, check him out,” the rabbit shouted. “He telling Congress to impeach Trump for being a racist. He should sing about it instead of making a speech.”
It turned out to be Al Green the Texas congressman, not Al Green the Memphis soul and gospel singer, but I couldn’t convince the rabbit that the two Als weren’t one and the same.
“Trump will just keep denying he’s a racist,” I said, plugging in the fan. “They should impeach him for obstructing the Mueller investigation. That’s where the criminal evidence is.”
“They might not impeach him at all,” the rabbit replied. “They’re too busy fighting each over. Old versus young, white versus black, Nancy Pelosi versus the Squad.”
As we were arguing, a talking head on cable news announced that the House had voted down Al Green’s impeachment resolution. Democrats can’t even agree on whether to impeach a guy who is arguably the first gangster president in American history. What does that say about their ability to settle on a candidate who will appeal to the majority of voters in the 2020 election?
“But you ain’t all wrong,” Swamp Rabbit said to cheer me up. “Better to wait till Robert Mueller testifies next week and then decide where to go on impeachment.”
Better to concede the hardcore bigot vote to Trump, he added. To go after so-called independents and lapsed Democratic voters — the Democrats who voted for Obama twice but sat out the 2016 election because Hillary was such a drag. To remind them about Trump’s wall fantasy, his attempts to kill Obamacare, his tax cuts for the rich and contempt for the poor, his ill-advised tariffs, his submissive relationship with Putin, his corrupt Cabinet, his ignorance and unbridled sleaziness.
“You’re right, the racism charge won’t work,” I admitted. “Trump fans like his racist talk, it stirs them up. Al Green should have put a lid on his anger instead of making a scene.”
“He should have sung ‘Let’s Stay Together,'” the rabbit said.
It was jarring to hear Trump praise Pelosi and the Democratic moderates for voting with the Republicans to kill Democratic legislation directing the House to begin an impeachment inquiry into Trump.
137 Democrats voted against impeaching Trump.
94 Democrats voted for impeachment.
Either those 137 moderate Democrats have never read the Mueller Report or they just don’t give a damn how racist and corrupt Trump is.
You don’t suppose that Pelosi and the Democratic moderates are partnering with Trump and the Republicans to discourage Progressives from voting in 2020, do you?
As curious as that question may seem, is there another good explanation for Pelosi’s bizarre play in assisting Trump and the Republicans to defeat an impeachment ‘inquiry’ into Trumps lawless and dangerous behavior?
And as an aside, every time Pelosi talks about how wonderful Ronald Reagan’s final speech to the country was it makes you wanna gag.
Vote NO on the USMCA Bill.
They didn’t vote to kill his motion, they voted to table it. Meaning they can bring it back when it might actually do some good.
Were they to begin proceedings now, and actually impeach the bastard, Mitch McConnell would have him acquitted in the senate just in time for his campaign to bray “FULL EXONERATION!!!” right as the campaign is heating up and all those unengaged voters are just starting the six months of attention they pay to politics each four years.
If they wait long enough to have the impeachment hearings on live TV right after the conventions, and drag it out long enough that Mitchy-poo doesn’t even get the chance to acquit the bastard before the election, we may actually beat him with it.
Just remember what Mitch did to Merrick Garland, and you’ll know how this should be played, because we could easily lose otherwise, as they are gonna cheat on a whole different level this time around.
And yes, it’s galling to have to put up with the bastard in the mean time, but there is no realistic way around that while there are still 34 Republicans in the senate.