The Hill reports a significant change in the attitudes of independents towards the impeachment inquiry:
Opposition by independents to the House’s ongoing impeachment inquiry jumped 10 percentage points in the last week, according to a Politico–Morning Consult poll released Tuesday.
The poll showed 47 percent of independents opposed the inquiry, compared to 37 percent last week. Meanwhile support for the inquiry by independents fell 7 points to 40 percent.
Support for the inquiry among all respondents fell 2 points to 48 percent, while opposition to it rose 3 points to 45 percent.
That is going in the wrong direction for House Democrats.
That is not a statement about the president’s guilt or innocence or whether what the president did was right or wrong. I am simply pointing out that if the House Democrats expected their impeachment inquiry to foster support for impeachment, they must surely be disappointed. So far it isn’t happening.
The main product of the hearings is the unquestionable proof that the Deep State/cabal exists, and that it rejects the authority of elected Presidents and elected Senators and Representatives. Today our Praetorians are content to dictate policy, but someday they will insist on appointing the “elected” officials.
Or, just a recent example of checks and balances at work.
It would be one thing if the career people at State and other executive and judicial departments were actually the selfless hard-working defenders of the nation they think or profess to be. And that their work actually contributes to the growth and health of the nation. But when deposed they either are ignorant of or pretend to be ignorant of people and events that any ordinary person could learn just by picking up a newspaper or surfing the web, when they defend corruption, bias, and their own incompetence, when they think and try to run the show when it’s their bosses’ job to do so, it shows that their claimed expertise, competence, and incorruptibility are a total lie. The Praetorian Guard of Imperial Rome got so awful and corrupt that they were disbanded. The Janissaries of Ottoman Turkey ended up being massacred. The eunuchs of the Qing dynasty were driven out of the Imperial City by the last emperor. A thorough housecleaning of the government is badly overdue.
People have the right to think what they want. People have the right to make fools of themselves.
This Sondland character testifies (at least today) that he asked an “open ended question” as to what Trump wanted. He then testifies that Trump definitively replied “nothing…..no quid pro quo. Just that the newbie do the right thing.” Sondland further testifies that no human on earth that he knows has heard Trump asking anything other than that.
He then informs us that he, however, “presumes” otherwise (and “everyone knows”) Trump really wanted something else.
This isn’t the election of a sorority house president. Show of hands. Anyone else want to beclown themselves and, like all the witnesses, traffic in mind reading, opinion and hearsay despite having absolutely no real knowledge – zero, zip, nada – that Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors?
Like I said, everyone has the right to their opinion. They also have the opportunity and right to identify themselves as fools.
So Trump’s own political appointees and his personal lawyer are deep state operatives too?
Sondland is a salesman, he considers his testimony puffery because he can read Schiffs face and knows perjory is only that which displeases . Makes no difference. No smoking gun here.
Although Sondland was a Trump appointee, he did not support Trump’s presidential candidacy. This places Sondland more in the category of an establishment republican, creating a greater vulnerability to the biases felt by many establishment republicans, like Romney and Jeb Bush, both of whom he did support.
“WASHINGTON – During a day of bombshell testimony by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union at the center of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, President Donald Trump strenuously denied knowing the man well.
Sondland, nominated to his post in 2018, was among only a few dozen donors who gave $1 million or more to Trump’s presidential inaugural committee in 2017.”
Clearly not a Trump supporter.
Steve
Sondland initially supported Trump, but did a 180, canceling a fundraiser and repudiating him after controversial remarks were made by Trump dealing with the khan family. It was 4 companies registered to Sondland who donated a million dollars to Trump’s inaugural committee, not by Sondland himself.
Even Trump, unlike his supporters, was smart enough to know there is no difference between Sondland donating the money and his companies donating. It was enough to buy an ambassadorship.
Steve