Many years ago, when Saturday Night Live was funny, the late Gilda Radner portrayed a character known as Emily Litella.  A confused Emily would appear on the newscast to bemoan such issues as “natural racehorses” (resources), “violins on television” (violence)  or “Soviet jewelry” (jewry).  When her misunderstandings were corrected, Emily would smile into the camera and proclaim, “Never mind.”  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s performance in the impeachment farce has been a creditable impersonation of Emily Litella.  Remember the Democrats excuses for their rush to impeachment.  Like everything else today’s Democrats do and say it was a tissue of lies.  We were told that Donald Trump represented an existential threat to our democracy, that he had to be removed immediately because he was mentally unbalanced and unfit for office, and that the nature and extent of his corruption was such that there was no time to waste.  They were sorry about it, they said.  They didn’t want to do it, but they had no choice.  Trump had to go and there was no time to waste.  Time was of such an essence that normal legal procedures could not be followed.  Democrats subpoenaed top members of the President’s national security and White House staffs and demanded internal documents, all of which were subject to claims of executive privilege.  Executive privilege isn’t a joke or some nefarious means of avoiding the law, it is the law.  Every president, back to George Washington has invoked executive privilege to maintain the separation of powers guaranteed by the Constitution.  Remember the Constitution?  It’s the document that even Democrats swear to uphold and defend.  It’s the document they hide behind when it suits them, and ignore, ridicule and lie about when that fits their agenda.  The Constitution established three branches of government, each with separate functions and powers, and each of which must be free to operate without undue interference from another branch.  The separation of powers prevents one branch of the government from improperly intruding on the workings of another branch.  The branches are separate, but don’t occupy water-tight compartments.  Congress may oversee the operations of the various executive agencies and departments because it funds them, but it can’t exercise such control that it usurps the function of the Executive.  When the Congress seeks information from the Executive which it believes it has a right to get, and which the Executive believes is protected by privilege, there is one and only one time-honored, not to mention legal, remedy available.  The Article I branch (the Congress) and the Article II branch (the Executive) bring their dispute before the Article III branch of the government, the Judiciary.  You go to court.  Which is what the Trump Administration officials did when the subpoenas were issued.  They took the case to court.  That’s what happened in 1973 when President Nixon’s White House tapes were subpoenaed by Congress.  The Supreme Court unanimously, including three Nixon appointees, ordered the tapes turned over to Congress.   The Executive complied with the court order.  That’s how it works.  You might even say that going outside the procedure I just described is what represents the existential threat to the Constitution and to our republic.  But that’s just what the Democrats in Congress decided to do.  Nancy Pelosi announced that they couldn’t go to the trouble of following the law by letting the courts decide the dispute.  That would take too much time and the Democrats just couldn’t wait.  There was a constitutional crisis, and it was imperative that Trump be removed from office immediately.  In other words, to save the Constitution, we must ignore the Constitution.  The only way to save our form of government was to violate every rule and deny every right guaranteed by the Constitution.  That’s why the Democrats moved so swiftly to impeach.  That’s why they denied the President the right to counsel, the right to confront witnesses against him, the right to call witnesses and the right to present evidence of his own.  That’s why Adam Schiff (for brains) prevented Republican Committee members from asking questions and calling witnesses.  That’s why Nadler and Pelosi rammed the impeachment vote through so fast.  It had to be done before Christmas.  Why?  Nancy claimed it was because Donald Trump was so great a threat that they couldn’t delay.  Nancy Pelosi, who at the beginning of 2019 told us that you can’t impeach without a bipartisan consensus that removal of a President was necessary, ended 2019 with an impeachment vote that included zero Republican votes and which three Democrats voted against.  No time to lose, it had to be done now.  They started the “impeachment inquiry” September 25th 2019.  They voted impeachment December 18th.  They impeached in 54 days.  And then, on the 55th day, Nancy Pelosi rested.  The normal procedure is for the House to name impeachment managers, who deliver the articles to the Senate for trial.  But Nancy won’t do it.  See, she doesn’t control the Senate, and after running roughshod over constitutional protections in the House, Nancy now demands fairness.  If Mitch McConnell won’t continue the kangaroo court in the Senate, then Nancy won’t deliver the articles.  After Pelosi put the country through months of needless turmoil, setting citizen against citizen, and further dividing an already divided nation, Nancy Pelosi gave us her best Emily Litella smile, looked into the camera, and said, “Never mind.”  This latest outrage has prompted even Democrat “experts” to ponder whether the President really has been impeached.  The Democrats are just playing for time.  There never was any imminent threat warranting an instant impeachment.  The only time pressure was and is the upcoming 2020 election.  The Democrats have no candidate who can compete with Trump, no values, and no program to run on.  Eventually Nancy Pelosi will have to relent and send the articles to the Senate.  House managers will argue for the President’s removal.  The Senators should smile, look into the camera and say, “Never mind.  Case dismissed.”