Richardcyoung.com

  • Home
  • Debbie Young
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Key West
  • Your Survival Guy
  • How We Are Different
  • Paris
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • Dick Young
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool
  • Anti-Gun Control
  • Anti-Digital Currency
  • Joel Salatin & Alfie Oakes
  • World Gold Mine Production
  • Fidelity & Wellington Since 1971
  • Hillsdale College
  • Babson College
  • Contact Us

The Parody of Impeachment: Urgency Gone Missing?

January 10, 2020 By Debbie Young

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reads names of AIDS victims during a ceremony announcing the Library of Congress as the new home of the AIDS Memorial Quilt Archive, November 20, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.

It seems like long ago, but only three short weeks have passed since House Democrats assured Americans that a rush to vote was necessary before Christmas. President Trump, they claimed, posed a clear and present danger.

At the time of the House Impeachment shenanigans, House Democrats argued that former national security adviser John Bolton need not be subpoenaed. But now, they say, the Senate must subpoena him. Otherwise, the trial won’t be fair.

Nancy Pelosi’s Political Calculation

Did the Speaker think she could dictate to Mitch McConnell? The Senate Majority Leader says he has enough votes among Republicans to begin a trial “with opening arguments on both sides and a decision on witnesses to come later.” Reports the WSJ, “That’s what the Senate did for the trial of Bill Clinton.”

Democrats’ Damaging Ongoing Cynicism

The political risk for Democrats is that all of this looks more cynical by the day. In one sense this is truth in advertising, since this impeachment is so weak, the process was so rigged, and the votes were so partisan. But Mrs. Pelosi is also trivializing what ought to be an important check on genuine presidential abuses. Her precedent could do lasting damage.

The cynicism seems to be weighing even on Senate Democrats, who have begun to lose patience. “The longer it goes on the less urgent it becomes,” said Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) this week. “So if it’s serious and urgent, send them (it) over. If it isn’t, don’t send it over.”

Read more here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Bribery and Extortion Gone Missing?
  • Trump's Impeachment Defense: Absence of Evidence
  • VIDEO: President Trump Slams Impeachment at Battle Creek Rally
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie Young
Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
Debbie Young
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • An Inevitable Fiscal Crisis - July 9, 2025
  • What Makes America Great - July 8, 2025
  • “People Will Die” - July 7, 2025

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • My Smith & Wesson Revolvers Home Defense Team
  • BLOOD THINNERS: Is a Big Advance Imminent?
  • The Butterfly Effect and Chaotic Markets
  • What Do You Know About Rho-Kinase?
  • Remembering Brent Scowcroft
  • Early Advice from Her Dad on Tipping at Charlie Trotter’s
  • Feds Raid America’s Number One Patriot: Naples Florida’s Alfie Oakes
  • Who Is Alex Jones?
  • Who’d be Nuts Enough to Have Put Money into SVB?
  • You’re Ready to “Make It a Good Month”

Our Most Popular Posts

  • What Makes America Great
  • Can Elon Musk Break the Two Party System?
  • “People Will Die”
  • Your Survival Guy: “You Wouldn’t Have Liked It”
  • How Healthy Are Eggs?
  • Just Don’t Call It “Obliterated”
  • Warthog's Last Stand: Could A-10's Have An Anti-Drone Role?
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio
  • Sending Capitalists to the Gulag
  • We Finally Got on the Boat

Compensation was paid to utilize rankings. Click here to read full disclosure.

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Survival Guy: “You Wouldn’t Have Liked It”
  • DOE Unveils Plan to Quadruple U.S. Nuclear Power by 2050
  • How China Weaponized Rare Earths to Shift U.S. Trade Policy
  • Trump Administration Moves to Curb Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
  • We Finally Got on the Boat
  • Trump Flexes Tariff Power Ahead of August 1 Deadline
  • America Remained a Net Energy Exporter as Domestic Output Soars
  • Copper Prices Surge as Global Supplies Tighten
  • Happy Independence Day!
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Your Survival Guy: “You Wouldn’t Have Liked It”
  • ESG Doesn’t Stand Up to Scrutiny
  • How to Dock a Boat with Helm Master EX
  • We Finally Got on the Boat
  • The Big Beautiful Bill: Good, Bad, and Ugly
  • WARNING: Your Survival Guy and Gal in the Fog
  • Happy Independence Day!
  • Survival Guy: An All-Weather Balanced Portfolio
  • A Bazooka Fired at Private Equity
  • NYC, Crypto, ESG, the Haves and the Have-Yachts

US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

My Key West Garden Office

Your Retirement Life: Traveling the Efficient Frontier

Live a Long Life

Your Survival Guy’s Mt. Rushmore of Investing Legends

“Then One Day the Grandfather was Gone”

Copyright © 2025 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives