Doing the Impeachment Math
Are there really 20 Republican senators who would commit political suicide in order to please Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiff?
Roger Kimball
- November 2nd, 2019
Welcome to the new and improved Get Trump Daily, special impeachment edition. A couple of days ago, on Halloween, a cute kid of about 7 came to our door dressed up as a dinosaur. It was a pretty nifty costume, green with spindling protuberances, tail with spiky-things, and bits on the head that expanded in a showy way when the budding tyrannosaur pressed a button.
This had two effects: One, you could tell that it was supposed to be scary, so it was a cue to say, “Oooh!†and “Ah! That’s scary!†Two: it made the costume’s occupant feel important, and I think that was probably the major effect.
“Trick or treat.†We gave the kid some candy and he toddled off down the street to impress the neighbors and, even more, himself.
If this were a story by Stephen King, maybe the kid might have been an evil demon and his expanding dinosaur head would have devoured us. But he wasn’t and we weren’t, which, frankly, is what we expected.
Of course, we might have been wrong.
I think that the Halloween impeachment show is a lot like that tyke’s costume. “Impeachment†sounds scary. As Kryptonite is to Superman, so impeachment is to the president. It’s just about the only thing that can bring him down. So I suppose it is not surprising that you can practically smell the self-importance oozing out of Adam Schiff. Like our little dinosaur, he is mighty impressed with himself.
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