Timothy Birdnow

Newt Gingrich has always been a part of the problem with the GOP and he shows he remains so today.

Gingrich called impeachment of Biden a "terrible idea" and urged Kevin McCarthy to move "very, very, very slowly" on it.

That Gingrich screwed up the impeachment of Bill Clinton is no doubt why he is making these statements now.

The fact is Gingrich and the House GOP should have lit a fire under Trent Lott and the Senate Republicans, and should have torn their Senate colleagues a new one over the rules they put in place for the trial.

Couple that with the fact Gingrich's strategy to win the off-year election was to duck and cover; he argued the party out of power always  gains seats so all they had to do was keep their heads down to avoid any unpleasantness with the media and they would win. That was political stupidity of the first order; the Democrats ran ads and made false statements defining the Republicans and it worked. The public thought the GOP was going to push granny off a cliff so they could light their cigars with the money they saved.

The impeachment committee did their jobs anyway and went forward with impeachment even though they lost the  election, and this did  indeed spike up Clinton's numbers.

But the fact is the media helped make the impeachment appear to be nothing but a lurid sex scandal and not a crime; most people to this day do not understand why Clinton was impeached.

This case is very different; everyone understands bribery and gets what Biden is accused of doing.

And Biden is not Bill Clinton. People liked Clinton because he was affable and fun. Biden is neither and really has little in the way of redeeming personal characteristics.

Another point that is important in this; the public liked Clinton because he was not boring. They liked Trump, even those who hated Trump liked to be able to hate him. But Biden does nothing but bore us. Boredom is the cardinal sin in politics.

I have argued that a failure to impeach Biden will only embolden the Democrats to double down on what they have been doing using the law to abuse political enemies and at the same time will suggest to the American People that the GOP is on a witch hunt because they won't actually take action, suggesting they don't really believe it.

Biden has clearly broken the law; it is the duty of Republicans to hold him accountable.

The Truth shall set you free. IF we are to be damned it may as well be in a just cause, I might add. If we refuse to do the right thing how can we expect God to bless our efforts? How can we expect something good when we won't stand up for the Truth?

Obviously we have to wait to try Biden until after the election; there won't be the votes in the Senate. And even after it will mean Mitch "the Bitch" McConnell will try to pull a Trent Lott and spike the impeachment. But he can be pressured. And who knows? Given his recent cognitive breakdown in public he may wind up being gone anyway by then.

But the worst possible thing the Republicans can do is listen to a has-been like Gingrich now. The man hasn't been relevant for twenty years.

No,we need to impeach Biden. And Merrick Garland, and probably a few others while we are at it.

We also need to investigate people like Jack Smith, and hopefully find something with which to prosecute him. Until we fight fire with fire they will continue to abuse us.

Impeachment is only  a "trap" if we go halfway into it. Sun Tzu said that if you invade enemy territory you must go in deeply "penetration but a short way leads to dispersal". The GOP can win if they actually go all-out, and even if they lose in the trial as long as the trial is lengthy enough to allow the American People to see what has happened then it will be a success. I would add they could impeach Biden even if he is no longer President, just as they did Trump.

Until the Republicans grow a pair of danglies down there America will continue its long, horrible slide.

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