Tom Del Beccaro: Decoding Democrats' rush to impeachment

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Tom Del Beccaro: Decoding Democrats' rush to impeachment

By Tom Del Beccaro | Fox News

Congressional Democrats are rushing headlong into impeachment proceedings. They are doing so without solid evidence that President Trump engaged in anything remotely close to "high crimes and misdemeanors." Here's why they can’t help themselves.

First, the Democratic Party today is not the Democratic Party of years past. Today’s Democratic Party is the party of government and "social justice."

They favor the expansion of government, dramatically so, even though government already accounts for 38 percent of the total U.S. economy. They favor the expansion of regulation, even though the costs of existing regulations exceed another 12 percent of the economy.

Democrats today see government as an employer, the provider of pensions and the purveyor of justice through the courts. Democrats feel their party MUST select the next Supreme Court justice, or they will lose the courts for years to come – as well as their ability to mete out social justice.

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[PeteS in CA]

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Secondly, Democrats have resorted to impeachment because the Democratic Party cannot satisfy its base with just the House. You cannot control government with just the House. The presidency is a must.

Third, it is a mistake to think the Democrats are unified or that impeachment was a consensus move among them. Several sets of hands are on the Democratic Party's driving wheel. One belongs to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to defend 31 freshmen House Democrats in districts that Trump won.

The second set belongs to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her "Squad." They want to defeat moderate Democrats in Congress — thereby jeopardizing House control.
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The last piece to the puzzle of how the Democrats arrived at this moment, is the cold, hard truth the Democrats are facing. They know the inspector general report on surveillance abuses will be ugly for them. ... crimes committed by Democrats in the 2016 election and with respect to the Ukraine.

They know that President Trump could declassify information on issues ranging from surveillance abuses to the Obama administration's policymaking related to Uranium One and Iran.
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They have moved out in front of the pending release of information. They are taking the fight to President Trump. They want to dirty Trump in every way possible. Then ... Democrats will claim that it is simple retaliation by a president who has done things wrong all along.

BTW, Tom Del Beccaro is something many conservatives seem to think does not exist, a conservative Republican in California. FWIW, Rep. Tom McClintock is one as well.