There are nervous House Democrats, especially from swing districts, who are being encouraged to vote with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. James Freeman writes in the WSJ of Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis’s report in the Washington Post: “House Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a […]

Writing on his personal blog, Pat Buchanan asks a simple question “Where are the “high crimes” in this impeachment resolution?” After accusing the president of bribery, extortion and more, the simple answer, Pat notes is “There are none.” He writes (abridged): Can Pelosi seriously expect a Republican Senate to convict and remove a Republican president […]

After an initially fleeing the Republican Party when Trump was elected, political strategist Mary Matalin has come around to the president. In discussing Trump with PJ Media, Matalin called him “stunning” and a “paradigmatic shift,” with whom “everything can be done.” Nicholas Ballasy reports: Matalin, a veteran Republican strategist, said she’s specifically pleased with Trump’s […]

After weeks of talking about Donald Trump’s crimes – bribery and extortion – Democrats have abandoned those words like they dropped the hot potato “quid quo pro.” As the WSJ explains, the new charge is “abuse of power,” which is generally broad enough “for anything Congress wants to stuff into it.” (Democrats) don’t even pretend […]

Donald Trump has been charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats in the House would impeach him for delaying lethal aid to Ukraine for one week. If President Trump can be impeached for this, then certainly President Barrack Obama and his VP Joe Biden “should have been impeached or doing something worse,” Victor Davis Hanson […]

Since impeachment is a political process rather than a strictly legal process, no actual crime “need be adduced,” writes Roger Kimball in Spectator.us. Andrew McCarthy’s explains this last gasp measure in his “superlative” book, Mr. Kimball continues: As everybody is repeating these days, impeachment is a political, not strictly a legal, process. No actual crime […]

“Anonymous” claims to be a “senior Trump administration official.” Notwithstanding the dire warnings about Trump, Roger Kimball begs to differ with Anonymous that the “guardrails are coming off,” From Mr. Kimball in Spectator.us, 27 November 2019, on why the guardrails are pretty darn solid: The stock market closed yesterday at 28,121. Worse, unemployment, especially minority […]