Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
So after failing to make "collusion" stick, Congress is now accusing the president of "abuse of power." And has supposedly "impeached" him without any backup from the Senate (how does that work).
However, let's look at the real facts:
-Congress expects to be able to impeach without the Senate, while refusing to do the bare minimum of having actual articles for impeachment. In other words, somehow they are not abusing power by being like "Here he is, impeach him!" Yeah, that's kangaroo court, sorry.
- Congress has repeatedly refused term limits, allowing these people to get elected again and again (meanwhile, eight years is the limit of consecutive office for a president).
- Apparently, Congress has also been involved in some sexual misconduct and yet has largely swept it under the rug.
- There's also the fact that Congress is able to levy (and raise) taxes, with no oversight from the other branches. Until the 16th amendment, we didn't even have income taxes, all taxes were from other sources.
- Congress also does not have the power to force investigation into a private citizen's information (even if that citizen is president). Yet nobody calls them on it.
- Or trying to vote for abolishing Electoral College. Because that's not overstepping authority at all!
- Further, the president does not even have the authority to take a pen to a law and scratch out portions they don't like (called a line item veto) and can barely veto a law without Congress trying to stop them, yet Congress can propose laws without anyone stopping them.
So who is Congress accusing of abuse of power?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/queen_pelosis_abuse_of_power.html
However, let's look at the real facts:
-Congress expects to be able to impeach without the Senate, while refusing to do the bare minimum of having actual articles for impeachment. In other words, somehow they are not abusing power by being like "Here he is, impeach him!" Yeah, that's kangaroo court, sorry.
- Congress has repeatedly refused term limits, allowing these people to get elected again and again (meanwhile, eight years is the limit of consecutive office for a president).
- Apparently, Congress has also been involved in some sexual misconduct and yet has largely swept it under the rug.
- There's also the fact that Congress is able to levy (and raise) taxes, with no oversight from the other branches. Until the 16th amendment, we didn't even have income taxes, all taxes were from other sources.
- Congress also does not have the power to force investigation into a private citizen's information (even if that citizen is president). Yet nobody calls them on it.
- Or trying to vote for abolishing Electoral College. Because that's not overstepping authority at all!
- Further, the president does not even have the authority to take a pen to a law and scratch out portions they don't like (called a line item veto) and can barely veto a law without Congress trying to stop them, yet Congress can propose laws without anyone stopping them.
So who is Congress accusing of abuse of power?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/queen_pelosis_abuse_of_power.html
If George Washington had been told he could be impeached over a conversation with a foreign leader in which no bribes were offered or accepted, he might have retired to Mt. Vernon a little early, telling us to forget the whole thing.
George Washington, James Madison, George Mason, and all the others believed in full due process, and the rights of the accused, including the right to confront one's accusers, call witnesses in defense of the charge, and cross-examine hostile witnesses in fair and open proceedings. They did not believe in star chamber proceedings in the basement of the House of Representatives. They expected that the defendant would know the crime, and it had to be a real crime — not a tweet being witness intimidation being a high crime and misdemeanor. They did not expect the "crime" to be based on hearsay and presumptions, defined by whatever term did the best when trotted out before focus groups.
They established three branches of government, not two, as token defense witness Prof. Jonathan Turley so eloquently put it. Disputes between the Legislative and Executive Branches were to be settled by the courts, but Nancy Pelosi has no time for the courts. If Congress wants documents and testimony and the White House refuses, take it to court. This is no more obstruction of Congress than a presidential veto of a bill is. It is not grounds for impeachment.
Pelosi says America doesn't need a king. It doesn't need a queen, either — a queen of hearts who lives in a Wonderland where she pronounces the sentence first and holds the trial later.