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Impeachment: Democrat narrative has air of hypocrisy

The economy’s strong, unemployment’s low and liberal Democrats remind me of a bunch of flies around a picnic spewing their impeachment narrative.

They have no basis for impeaching Trump, and the things they are accusing him of they are more than guilty of themselves: soliciting input from foreign governments to use against their political opponents.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder wants to claim AG William Barr has a political bias, yet Holder himself has said he was President Obama’s “wing man.”

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed says he’s disappointed in the posture the Republican-controlled Senate has taken, yet Reed is the one who implemented the nuclear option limiting the ability to filibuster.

Rather than a formal impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has imitated a partisan fishing expedition by ignoring precedent and not taking a floor vote.

Democrats believe they can remove Trump by driving a false narrative with an accommodating media rather than exposing impeachable offenses. Time will tell, but I think not.

Hank Harwell, Browns Point



This story was originally published October 25, 2019 at 2:28 PM with the headline "Impeachment: Democrat narrative has air of hypocrisy."

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