VIEW from behind the plow

Democrat leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives appear to have fouled their own nest.

While the 2020 elections will determine the extent, if any, of theattempt to overturn the 2016 election of Donald Trump as president, Democrats surely must feel some of the derision the nation as a whole appears to feel for their attempt to impeach and remove President Trump.

Despite wall-to-wall coverage and support of their impeachment game by the national media, the impeachment attempt hasn’t created much citizen attention; people as a rule seem to be turned off, yawning all the way to the refrigerator for a snack before switching TV channels to find something interesting to watch.

The House judiciary committee Friday advanced two articles of impeachment against the president, setting up a vote by the full house this week.

Columnist and former White House official Pat Buchanan described the House effort this way:

“New Year’s prediction: The Roman poet Horace’s Latin depiction: “Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’ – “The mountains went into labor, and brought forth a mouse” – will be used to describe the articles of impeachment drawn up by Nancy Pelosi’s House.

Article II of the impeachment proposal is titled “Obstruction of Congress.”

Possibly the article writers would have hit closer to the mark if it had been entitled “contempt for Congress.” Well for Schiff, Pelosi and Nadler and their fellow travelers, anyway.

While Washington, D.C., deep staters may be following the process intently, many across the country are wondering, “Is this setting the stage for every presidential election from here on, protesting and undermining the person elected in an attempt to overthrow the people’s votes – especially if a Republican should win.”

In the past, those whose favorite did not get elected accepted the results of the election and went about business as usual.

While not happy (and possibly very concerned) with the results, they accepted them.

The left in America has been working consistently for decades to end our constitutional system that has created the greatest nation in the history of the world, one where citizens had definite rights and were able to achieve by dint of their own efforts.

Power hungry egomaniacs find the system unsuitable because it doesn’t allow them to order others around to their heart’s content while also robbing the common person of his-her hard-earned earnings.

Even those who didn’t vote for President Trump now appear to look askance at the House impeachment show, realizing it is a sham.

They’ve got nothing to show for their coup attempt – except embarrassment – for their clumsy partisan antics.

The Schiff-Nadler-Pelosi show is a cringe-inducing trauma to the nation.

Rep. Devin Nunes appeared on Mark Levin’s Fox News Show and talked about he and his staff put out a memo in early 2018 to expose the counterintelligence malfeasance that was occurring in the FBI in the search for Russian “collusion” with Donald Trump.

The media latched onto that, derisively reporting Republicans were concocting “conspiracy theories” and undermining the nation’s enforcement agencies. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, writing in Townhall, reviewed Nunes’ findings that the Justice department’s Inspector General Mike Horowitz found to be true, i.e.:

1. Ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s sleazy and unsubstantiated dossier of dirt on Trump “formed an essential part of” an application sent to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court to secure a right to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The application did not explain that the dossier was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

2. The application extensively cited a 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which didn’t corroborate the dossier – since Steele himself was Isikoff’s source! The FBI wrongly claimed Steele was not a source for the story.

3. Nellie Ohr, wife of Bruce Ohr, then a high-ranking Justice Department official, worked for the fi rm Fusion GPS to assist the Clinton campaign effort. Her husband sent her research to the FBI. He admitted that Steele “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president,” but he and his wife concealed this as well as their relationship with the Clinton campaign from the FISA court.

4. The dossier was ‘only minimally corroborated’ and unverified, according to FBI offi cials.

These deeply dishonest FISA applications were submitted by Comey and his Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Schiff’s then-minority side of the committee put out a memo in response to Nunes with competing claims. Each of these Horowitz found to be false:

1. Obama’s Justice Department “made only narrow use of information from Steele’s sources about Page’s specifi c activities in 2016.”

2. Team Obama “disclosed” the “assessed political motivation” of Steele’s benefactors.

3. “In subsequent FISA renewals, DOJ provided additional information that corroborated Steele’s reporting.”

4. “The Page FISA warrant allowed the FBI to collect ‘valuable intelligence.”

5. The DOJ “repeatedly informed the Court about Steele’s background, credibility, and potential bias,” she wrote. (In fact, it never used his name.)

6. “The FBI conducted a ‘rigorous process’ to vet Steele’s allegations, and the Page FISA application explained the FBI’s reasonable basis for fi nding Steele credible.

7. Steele’s prior reporting was used in ‘criminal proceedings.’”

Despite Horowitz’s carefully noncommittal demeanor and his facts’ lining up with Nunes’, the media sided with Schiff. Russiagate fanatic Rachel Maddow called it “a sad trombone for Trump.” Two leftist Washington Post writers wrote an article headlined “The Nunes Memo Is out. It’s a Joke and a Sham.”