{"id":1317358,"date":"2019-12-20T21:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/reagan-column-mother-pelosis-impeachment-games\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T21:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T04:08:01","slug":"reagan-column-mother-pelosis-impeachment-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/reagan-column-mother-pelosis-impeachment-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan column: Mother Pelosi\u2019s impeachment games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/ColReagan-gpi-122119.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/ColReagan-gpi-122119.jpg 360w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/12\/ColReagan-gpi-122119-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Did anyone else not watch the Democrat presidential debate on TV Thursday night?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I thought so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">After three months of watching Saint Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrats stage their solemn impeachment circus, I decided to skip the latest \u201chistoric\u201d debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I figure I had suffered enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I desperately needed some laughs, so on Thursday I began what I hope will be a week of binging on Christmas movies like \u201cElf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Only seven Democrats \u2013 a couple of socialists, a couple of zillionaires, a couple of moderates and small-town mayor from Indiana \u2013 qualified for this week\u2019s primary debate in L.A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Did moderate old Joe Biden have a \u201ccommanding performance\u201d that quelled what the New York Times\u2019 pre-debate piece called \u201cthe quiet rumblings\u201d about his \u201cabilities and long-term strength\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Did the leftwing oldsters Liz and Bernie beat up moderate young Mayor Pete for being insufficiently socialist or a member of the donor class?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Did entrepreneur Andrew Yang, billionaire Tom Steyer, Sen. Amy Klobuchar or anyone else say anything new, interesting, bold or politically unpredictable?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Based on previous debates, I doubt all of the above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I bet the seven Democrats on stage gave the same false promises and same canned answers to the same softball questions we\u2019ve heard a hundred times before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Meanwhile, in Washington, where the Democrats\u2019 two weak and fuzzy articles of impeachment are supposed to travel from the House to the Senate for a trial, Mother Pelosi is playing games as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Now she wants a quid pro quo with the Senate \u2013 \u201cDo the trial the way I want, or I won\u2019t send over the articles of impeachment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Pelosi and other House Democrats have said over and over that they are impeaching the president not for partisan reasons but because it is their sacred duty to uphold the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yeah, right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Everyone knows what it\u2019s really all about \u2013 their blind hatred for Trump for his having beaten Hillary in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Democrats have been shoving this phony impeachment stuff down the country\u2019s throat for three months, but the irony is that they\u2019ve only succeeded in strengthening the president and weakening themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Because of their impossible dream to impeach and remove President Trump everything is going in reverse for the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">They\u2019ve already lost one moderate House congressman from New Jersey who\u2019s switching to Republican and according to the polls impeachment has not hurt Trump with independent voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The increasingly leftist Democrat Party, which looks incapable of finding a candidate who can unseat Trump, is weaker because of impeachment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Democrats are so blinded by their hate they don\u2019t care how much their partisan impeachment sham has hurt themselves or the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the long run, there\u2019s a silver lining to the ugly black cloud of impeachment that has been hanging over America for three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Despite Pelosi\u2019s maneuvering and the fevered hopes of Democrats and the liberal media, impeachment is going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">President Trump will never be convicted and removed by two-thirds of the Republican Senate and chances are getting better every day that he\u2019ll be reelected next fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Of course, if the House of Representatives isn\u2019t switched back to Republican control in 2020, the day after Trump is sworn in for a second term Democrats will come up with a new slate of bogus impeachment charges and our national political headache will start all over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If there is a silver lining for today, it\u2019s that Congress has closed down their partisan circus and gone home for Christmas so the rest of us can have a happy holiday. Merry Christmas to all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">Send comments to <a href=\"mailto:Reagan@caglecartoons.com\">Reagan@caglecartoons.com<\/a>. Follow @reaganworld on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/columns\/reagan-column-mother-pelosis-impeachment-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else not watch the Democrat presidential debate on TV Thursday night? I thought so. After three months of watching Saint Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrats stage their solemn impeachment circus, I decided to skip the latest \u201chistoric\u201d debate. I figure I had suffered enough. I desperately needed some laughs, so on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 08:03:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}