Friends, I don't pretend to understand the legal particulars, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been impeached by the (mostly Republican) Texas House of Representatives, meaning a trial will now take place in the Senate. DJT is coming to the defense of Paxton, but it's hard to believe that so many Republicans would turn on Paxton merely based on charges that were...trumped up. Impeachments have become all too common in modern American politics, but seldom do we see a party turn on one of its own. Whatever happens, we can safely assume that the next Attorney General of Texas will be a conservative Republican, whether that's Paxton or someone else. Long may it last!
In other news, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Generalissimo Biden have reached a basic agreement on a resolution to the standoff over the debt ceiling. This surprises me not in the least. It will probably be seen as a modest win for Republicans, which is nice, but what it won't do is put our country on a fiscally sound path. That battle has yet to be fought, and it probably never will be -- not until members of Congress have no choice but to tighten our collective belt.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I do like McCarthy's tenacity; is it possible we may have another Gingrich here? We'll see but I like the way he stood up to the far leftist controlled executive branch and its figurehead. Let McCarthy work as much frustration on them as Gingrich did on the imperious Clintons.It just takes the will to do it (and the requisite power of course).
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I like his aggressiveness too. The left terribly dreads the possibility of America coming out on top in the existential showdown which obtains today. It has demonstrated this in its frantic all out onslaught on DJT, who was as insolent as to make of this oh so sensitive, profound, elite and at the same time, intensely vicious and haughty movement. McCarthy is taking the fight to them, a wise tactic in dealing with a doctrine which is by definition convinced that it will triumph and that this certainty excuses any method provided it brings ultimate "justice".Oh where and when has humanity suffered this presumptuous counterintuitive catastrophe in the full bloom of its essential evil? History tells us and its empirical foundation completely gainsays the dreamy, consciously ignorant musings of the disgraceful and in power, titanically destructive, spawn of Marx, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot and those who would blithely discard the hard won blessings of western civilization in America.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Rock the left back on its heels. Like Jack Dempsey did, put it on the defensive - where it fears to be because it prevents it from choosing how and where to fight. And when its there,KEEP it there, again like Dempsey did!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Correction: DJT is as insolent as to have made cruel humor of the oh so sensitive left. . .
ReplyDeleteJack, what McCarthy has managed so far, with a paper-thin majority, is impressive! We shouldn't be under any illusion, though, that the investigations that McCarthy has unleashed are having the slighest impact on the news cycle, as far as the MSM is concerned. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: only indictments can move the needle as far as the Dems' contempt for the rule of law is concerned, and those McCarthy cannot deliver.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Aren't there enough Trump judicial appointees or maverick U.S. Attorneys to make some indictments possible? Is the House an entity which can level civil charges? Certainly the Speaker can bring some power of persuasion to bear?One infamous case might yield much benefit. Yes, I fully agree, the MSM is completely compromised.
ReplyDeleteJack, you would think some U.S. attorneys might display a flicker of interest in prosecuting the Bidens, no? As far as I know, none ever have. I suspect the DOJ itself would have ultimate authority over whether charges were filed, too. Federal prosecutors work for the DOJ and ultimately for the president, after all. They can be, and have been in recent memory, fired, if they stray from the party line. And no, I'm pretty sure the House itself can't prosecute anyone for anything, although I suppose maybe it could sue someone?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy fromJack: The House can level Contempt of Congress or , I think, Lying to Congress charges .It cannot prosecute them but for the Executive branch to refuse to do so could fuel outrage .The President can fire Federal prosecutors but Nixon got in all the more trouble for doing so.But so Trump could have done with feds refusing to hold Hillary culpable for her haughty disdain for security laws. Apparently he didn't. Was it an attempt at conciliation contemptuously disdained by the left?Obviously, for them even former Presidents can be fair game for quasi legal assault.
ReplyDeleteJack, making a former president vulnerable to prosecution crosses all kinds of normative lines, and of course part of the problem for us is that the Left's pursuit of charges versus Trump makes it that much less likely that they will ever surrender power to Trump, because they would surely anticipate that their heads would be next on the chopping block! Frankly, I thought it was pretty naive of Trump to leave office, in the sense that he's lucky to be at liberty still after two years -- and soon his luck may run out. I'm a little suprised that every member of his family hasn't been thrown in the clink too.
ReplyDeleteThe House can find someone in contempt, yes, but seldom has that ever produced real world criminal charges, and we can safely assume it won't in this case either.