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I've
had the displeasure to watch some hours of the House Intelligence Committee’s
impeachment inquiry. It’s an excruciating spectacle, alternately boring, confusing,
and infuriating.
Where
have the Democrats set the high-crime-and-misdemeanor goalpost today? Is it the
“Russian collusion” for which Adam Schiff had “direct evidence” even before the Mueller
investigation? How about the “10 different episodes of presidential obstruction
of justice” for which Jamie Raskin told us “the evidence is overwhelming”? No,
really, they got him on “quid pro quo”! Or is it “abuse of power”? Wait, it’s “bribery.” Final answer.
(They focussed-grouped it!) Bombshells all.
I
have no interest in parsing the minutiae of the purported case Schiff is now
making against Trump. (I’ll leave that to Aaron Maté, who does it so well.) I’ve said before that I think it’s political folly.
Here, I would like those who are enthralled by the ongoing impeachment frenzy
to focus for a moment on one glaring contradiction in the logic of the
Democrats’ position—a contradiction that reveals that the Democrats are
speaking with forked tongue about what they are actually trying to do.
