{"id":1318009,"date":"2020-01-31T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/reagan-column-a-dangerous-impeachment-policy\/"},"modified":"2020-01-31T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:00:01","slug":"reagan-column-a-dangerous-impeachment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/reagan-column-a-dangerous-impeachment-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan column: A dangerous impeachment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It doesn\u2019t matter whether the impeachment trial of President Trump is already over or it drags on for months.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of the U.S. Senate is never going to find the president guilty of the House Democrats\u2019 vague and bogus charges of abuse of power and obstructing Congress.<\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s always known that\u2019s how it will end, even the deranged Democrats.<\/p>\n

But Adam Schiff and his supporting cast still wasted several days of the country\u2019s time in the Senate this past week declaring over and over that President Trump must be removed from office.<\/p>\n

Among other hysterical things, they charged Trump is a threat to our national security, an archenemy of the Constitution and a corrupt dictator who intends to steal the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

Democrats have proved for the last three years now that they can spot a new impeachable crime in every other presidential tweet or executive order.<\/p>\n

But as Jay Sekulow of the Trump defense team warned the Senate on Tuesday, in their rage to take down Trump the House Democrats have made a serious mistake.<\/p>\n

By drastically lowering the bar of impeachment, he said, Democrats have put the constitutional framework of our republic in \u201cunimaginable\u201d danger.<\/p>\n

Sekulow also said he thought the impeachment of President Trump is not based on whether or not he exceeded his constitutional authority but is actually a political fight over \u201cdeep policy concerns\u201d and \u201cdeep policy differences.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing new about wide policy differences between Congress and the White House and between the White House and the State Department.<\/p>\n

One reason for that is because members of Congress and the employees of the State Department usually serve for 20 or 30 years while a president lasts eight years at most.<\/p>\n

When a new president comes into office with his new policies \u2013 getting tough with the Soviets, expanding government health care, putting tougher economic sanctions on Iran \u2013 he often meets resistance from veteran congressmen and career bureaucrats in the state department who have their own long-held policy positions.<\/p>\n

We saw exactly that kind of White House-State Department tension on display during the House impeachment hearings into President Trump\u2019s Ukraine policy.<\/p>\n

The hard anti-corruption policy the president wanted to pursue in Ukraine was criticized, resisted or subverted by state department officials who had been hired by previous presidents.<\/p>\n

Making policy is a complicated process for any president. It\u2019s like making sausage. It\u2019s messy, has lots of ingredients and not pretty to watch being made.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the piece of sausage \u2013 Obama\u2019s Iran policy, for example, or Trump\u2019s Ukraine policy \u2013 that counts in the end.<\/p>\n

When my father had to make important decisions on national security and foreign policy matters he would have the National Security Council write up three different versions of what he could do.<\/p>\n

The NSC \u2013 which is made up of the vice president, cabinet officials, military leaders and other top advisers \u2013 and my father would discuss all three options. Then my father would make his decision and the policy would go forward.<\/p>\n

No one at the New York Times ever saw those other policy choices and the arguments that went on in those NSC meetings were never leaked to the media.<\/p>\n

If transcripts of those meetings had fallen into the hands of today\u2019s deranged Democrats, Adam Schiff would have impeached my father because he didn\u2019t accept one of the other two choices.<\/p>\n

Jay Sekulow was right to warn the Senate about the danger to our republic of lowering the bar of impeachment.<\/p>\n

If we start impeaching presidents just because we don\u2019t agree with their policies we\u2019re never going to have another one who can get anything done.<\/p>\n

Send comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com<\/a>. Follow @reaganworld on Twitter.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn\u2019t matter whether the impeachment trial of President Trump is already over or it drags on for months. Two-thirds of the U.S. Senate is never going to find the president guilty of the House Democrats\u2019 vague and bogus charges of abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Everyone\u2019s always known that\u2019s how it will end, […]<\/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-1318009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 02:55:44","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\/1318009","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=1318009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}