BARR: Democrats May Have Buyer’s Remorse After Month Of Impeachment Hearings
Former Rep. Bob Barr
Contributor
November 25, 2019 7:00 AM ET
Now that one phase of the impeachment process is finished — sort of — the question is, where are we? Has the needle moved? Are we closer to the goal? Where do we now go?
In every sense that means anything of substance, we are right back where we started many weeks ago. We have come full circle.
The sum total of what we have learned can be summarized in one half dozen points:
The Washington Establishment — especially that ensconced in the Department of State, and often referred to (not without good reason) as “Foggy Bottom†— dislikes President Trump with an animosity bordering on hatred.
The president disdains the Washington Establishment, most notably those careerists at the Department of State, who regularly exhibit a predisposition in favor of the foreign countries to which they are or have been assigned rather than to the country they are sworn to serve.
California Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is the 21st century version of the ancient philosopher Diogenes, who was doomed to search vainly with his lantern for an “honest man,†though Schiff’s vain search for an “impeachable offense†lacks the aid even of a lantern.
The ratio between opinions, presumptions, conclusions and inferences on the one hand, and factual evidence adduced during the two weeks of hearings and a dozen or so witnesses, is a mathematical nullity, as division by zero is not calculable. Zero being the number of actual fact-based pieces of evidence, related by witnesses purporting to establish a “quid pro quo†that Trump sought to force Ukraine’s president to investigate a “political rival†of Trump’s in return for supplying military assistance to that corruption-infested country.
The impeachment process as played out thus far, is 100 percent partisan; with not a single witness allowed to be called by the minority party.
Impeaching a president of the United States based on focus-grouping words and phrases designed to convey criminality is a really bad idea. It’s far more likely to sow confusion and discredit rather than confidence in its purveyors.
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