The Democrats’ latest attempt to rid themselves of Donald Trump, this time by way of impeachment, went down last week with all flags flying.  Ordinarily, when your opponent sinks your battleship, the game is over.  Apparently, however, the Democrats have never played that game.  For more than three years now, they have been playing at something very different.  Games, you see, have rules, and the Democrats don’t want to be burdened by rules.  If what they were doing had rules, or if they cared about rules, they wouldn’t have corrupted the State Department, the Justice Department and the CIA.  They wouldn’t have destroyed the FBI’s reputation for integrity, a reputation that the FBI nurtured and guarded for the better part of a hundred years.  They wouldn’t have involved diplomats from allied nations in their attempted coup de etat, an act that undermined our foreign policy, destroyed our ability to trust our allies, and gave aid and comfort to our enemies.  They wouldn’t have compromised trust in the judiciary by submitting false affidavits to the FISA Court.  And they wouldn’t have ignored all semblance of fundamental fairness, due process, and the Constitution itself, all in a vain attempt to harpoon their great white whale, Donald Trump.  In the end, the Democrats went the way of Captain Ahab, and their prey simply swam away, once again stronger than ever before.  Although I just said, “In the end,” we know it’s not the end.  No matter how many times the Democrats get that anvil dropped on their heads, they just keep coming back for more.

The impeachment farce was just their latest misadventure.  They’ve already moved on to their next imagined outrage – demanding investigations of whether Trump influenced Attorney General Barr to reduce the sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone from the nine years the Mueller Special Counsel hitmen said they wanted.  He didn’t.  What the Dems don’t appreciate is that Attorney General Barr actually understands that the mission of the Justice Department is to do justice, and not just to punish anyone who dared to assist Donald Trump in the past, and to deter others from working for him in the future.  Anyhow, at this point in our proceedings, as the Democrat presidential field tries to figure out where to go now, after Iowa and New Hampshire, we should explore the winners and losers of the impeachment fiasco. The obvious winner, of course, is President Trump.  My grandmother used to say that, every time my grandfather said he was going to die, he just put down another root.  That’s the way it is for the President.  His enemies keep predicting his imminent demise, they fail to get him, and it just makes him stronger.  When they started their impeachment inquiry, Trump’s approval rating was under 40%.  Now he’s up 10 percentage points, to around 50%.  Trump was elected in 2016 with a 37% approval rating.  Good job, guys.  The acquittal also was a win for every American who understands that it is we who get to decide who our president will be, not Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff (for brains).  On that note, on to the losers.  Adam Schiff was neither respected nor trusted by his colleagues before impeachment.  Now that he has been publicly exposed as the judge, jury and executioner of a kangaroo court, and as an out-and-out baldfaced liar, Schiff’s name truly has become Mudd. (yes, with 2 d’s –  you can look it up).  I’d like to say that the stature of Jerry Nadler also has been diminished.  However, Nadler had precious little stature to begin with, so it’s hard to tell.  Also winding up as losers are the 30 House Democrats, elected in 2018 in districts President Trump won in 2016.  They all replaced Republicans by promising to go to Washington to do the work of the people, and to work with the Administration to solve problems.  Instead, Nancy Pelosi forced them to walk the plank by voting to impeach the President, while getting absolutely nothing of value done.

Their leap of faith will come back to bite them in November, giving Republicans a chance to win back the House if they can turn 20 of those districts back to Red.  And now we come to the biggest loser, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or as she has become known after the State of the Union speech, Nan the Ripper.  Nancy knew impeachment was a loser for her Party.  She said so.  She tried to stop the Mad Bombers in her Party from doing what she knew was wrong.  She failed.  In the end, she lit the fuse on the bomb that blew up in the Democrats’ faces.  Trump emerged as a president armed with real accomplishments, prosperity and peace.  The Democrats emerged as, well – stooges.  Whoo, whoo, whoo, wiseguys!

By sitting there, mumbling to herself, tearing up an official document of the United States of America, and dismissing the President’s indisputably truthful statements as lies, the Ripper diminished herself, her office and the Congress.  She proved herself, petty, petulant, and at 80, long past retirement.  Yes, Pelosi is the biggest loser, but losing her for good would be a big win for America.  It is high time that our Legislature moves on from the constant drumbeat of impeachment and devotes itself to such mundane problems as immigration, our $22 trillion debt, public health and national security.  You know, all those neat things the Framers put into Article I of the Constitution.  It is high time that our elected and appointed public officials stop trying to overthrow the government and start running the damn government.  Simply put, it is high time that we get the the benefit of the bloated Federal government that we are paying for, instead of a gang of Looney Tunes characters who are constantly chasing themselves.  So repeat after me …