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Instead Of Focusing On Helping The American People, Democrats, Consumed By Their Obsession With President Trump, Have Elected To Pursue Impeachment One Last Time

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TODAY, DEMOCRATS WILL TRY ONE LAST TIME TO ACHIEVE A GOAL THEY’VE BEEN WORKING TOWARDS SINCE THE DAY PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ELECTED

Today, the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump begins as Democrats try one last time to achieve the goal they’ve been working towards since he took office.

In January 2017, The Washington Post published an article entitled, “The Campaign To Impeach President Trump Has Begun”

In May 2017, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) called for the President’s impeachment.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) in December 2018: “This President in my estimation has done everything possible to certainly be eligible for impeachment.”

Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in January 2019: “We shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.”

THE RUSH TO IMPEACHMENT AS COVID RELIEF STALLS HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT DEMOCRATS’ OBSESSION WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ONCE AGAIN DEFINED THEIR PRIORITIES 

Though Speaker Pelosi called the impeachment of President Trump “urgent” she was  initially hesitant to offer a concrete timeline on when Democrats would move forward with the trial.

Pelosi’s decision to delay sending the article was “reminiscent of a similar maneuver a year ago,” when she held the articles for nearly a month in hopes of using the leverage to gain concessions from Senate Republicans.

This time, Democrats delayed two weeks, time they vowed to use on “confirming President Joe Biden's Cabinet and coronavirus relief.”

While the Democrats are indeed focused on pushing through Biden’s corrupt cabinet, the promised COVID relief is still stuck in Congress.

Democrats are “increasingly divided over the criteria for the next round of stimulus payments, splintering the caucus even as they aim to quickly pass” the relief package.

Even if Democrats can get on the same page, Ed Mills, Washington policy analyst at Raymond James, said that “We’re looking at an early March timetable of getting something signed into law.”

Now, Democrats must “juggle work between the new President's policies and the former president's impeachment trial.”

DEMOCRATS’ OBSESSION WITH PUNISHING PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ANOTHER BLOW TO JOE BIDEN’S HOLLOW CALLS FOR UNITY

But even as Biden called for unity, there was “obvious tensions” among lawmakers including newly minted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who emphasized that  “this Senate will legislate. It will be active, responsive, energetic and bold.”

Unsurprisingly, the calls for unity did not last long - last week the Senate voted, strictly along party lines to approve Bernie Sanders’ budget resolution necessary to force through a partisan relief bill using the reconciliation process.

The resolution drew criticism even from members of Biden’s own party, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said, “Biden's advisers have led him wrong to start out in a strictly partisan direction.”

Manchin also noted that Democrats didn’t even attempt to work across the aisle saying, “we should have found something that we could have voted on bipartisan first.”

Biden has also issued an unprecedented number of executive orders during his first weeks in office, something he had criticized President Trump for.

During the campaign, Biden said, “I have this strange notion, we are a democracy…[there are things] you can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.”

 

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