Speaker Pelosi can’t be happy about how 2019 has turned out for the Democrats. She was hoping for a boffo impeachment spectacle, but it was dull as cardboard and the hearings included nothing even vaguely improper about President Trump’s behavior.
As a result, Americans didn’t flock to the cause of removing the president [1] after viewing the tiresome suits on TV, but instead were turned off by the Democrat partisanship and lack of substance.
A Rasmussen poll released in mid-November found 53 percent of likely voters believe the media were working with the Democrats [2] to impeach Trump. So the deck looked stacked from the start to many Americans.
Mark Steyn (filling in for Tucker Carlson) recently noted Pelosi’s gambit with the impeachment drama:
MARK STEYN: Good evening and welcome to “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” I’m Mark Steyn, in for Tucker. I hope you had a terrific Christmas, Happy Boxing Day or as I believe it’s known in America — Thursday.
2019 was supposed to be the year of impeachment. The Democratic Party spent years promising it, and it looked like they were finally going to deliver. They called witnesses. They held hearings. They summoned academics to deliver dull, pseudo-constitutional lectures to any American bored enough to watch the proceedings live.
And finally last week, they voted to impeach President Trump. And yet, the President still isn’t actually impeached. A week after the vote, Nancy Pelosi still hasn’t forwarded the Articles to the Senate for a trial as is constitutionally required.
Impeachment has been put on hold, maybe it was all a charade from the start. Or maybe Speaker Pelosi is too busy basking in the fawning, drooling, sycophantic praise of cable news talking heads. . .
Following are some typical MSNBC commentors, spouting the usual anti-Trumpisms and Pelosi admiration.
Speaker Pelosi had insisted upon a speedy impeachment despite the looming presidential election in 2020, yet now she won’t send the Articles to the Senate. Is the inevitable outcome too embarrassing for her to face?
We shall see, as the New Year awaits.