01-03-2020, 08:03 PM
(01-03-2020, 07:16 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-03-2020, 04:24 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Sorry, Classic X'er. A secret vote would make every Republican Senator look as if he were in on a fix. Turn the impeachment against the Democrats? Impossible. Trump is in the pickle and at this point he isn't getting out of it unless he resigns.
Yep. That's what I said, a secret vote and an abrupt end would be nice and would be commonly viewed as a political gift for the liberal side. Hint... I don't think they're dumb enough to do it that way and I don't think the Republican base are dumb enough to allow them to do it that way either. If I were you, I'd prepare for the worst possible outcome at this point. I think the best outcome would be for Pelosi to look like a fool and keep it for herself as a trophy of sorts to commemorate her greatest accomplishment as a liberal woman/ liberal Democrat. It may not win any seats or save any seats but I think it's all that seems to needed to keep the liberals who seem to matter the most to survival of the Democratic party in office these days.
Or complete acquiescence with the President. Blunders first seduce; only the consequences show their wrongness. After the fact every critical analysis causes people to wonder what the blunderer was thinking.
Nancy Pelosi is a shrewd operator with a chilly logic... maybe too chilly at times. But this time she has set a trap with plenty of entrances and plenty of seeming escapes that put the President and his cronies in even worse positions. Such is the antithesis of foolishness. She is the Dragon Lady in this scenario... and Trump already feels the hot breath. She stands to deliver the political equivalent of third-degree burns.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.