Anatomy of the House Impeachment Circus

Use your head.  Trust your own judgment.  Think for yourself.  You do not need MSNBC, FoxNews, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal to tell you how to think.

Here is the whistle blower report: https://www.scribd.com/document/427562713/Declassified-Whisteblower-Complaint#from_embed

Here is the likely identity of the whistle blower: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html

Here is the undisputed summary of the telephone call cited by the whistle blower complaint: https://www.scribd.com/document/427409665/Ukraine-Call-Transcript#from_embed

Here is the House resolution regarding their secretive and non-transparent impeachment inquiry: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/read-full-text-house-resolution-trump-impeachment-process-n1073481 .  Note that all actions involving minority (Republican) rights and transparency require Democratic approval.  

Fact: The Trump Administration released $400 million in military aid to Ukraine on September 11, 2019:  https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/oct/07/us-aid-ukraine-donald-trump-froze-one-chart/  .  Note that the details of the actual aid package release come in the final paragraph…after much heavy breathing and extraneous detail. 

Fact: In the immediate aftermath of the telephone call in question, there was no new investigation opened into Joe or Hunter Biden’s involvement with Burisma: https://apnews.com/cd2d1f8ba4cb4caeaba690ff87cca225

Consider the event.  Consider the source.  Consider the rules of the impeachment inquiry.  Consider that the aid was actually released.  Consider that no new investigation has occurred.  If a President can be impeached for this, then he or she can be impeached for how they get out of bed in the morning. 

Impeachment is the ultimate political act of overturning the democratic process at the very heart of our Constitution.  The House is essentially considering going into the voting booth and erasing all 2016 votes for Donald Trump. 

Federal Fiscal Year 2020 (which began on October 1, 2019) appropriations which fund our government have not yet been passed.  The US/Mexico/Canada Trade Agreement has been lying on a House table awaiting consideration for about nine months.  Immigration Reform continues to languish.  Roads and bridges all across the nation are unsafe and crumbling; while a bipartisan bill to address them cannot find room on the House floor for debate.  Health care costs continue to rise and squeeze American taxpayers while the House fiddles with impeachment.

Is this what you elected your U.S. Representative to do?

Is this the type of government you want for our nation?

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