The impeachment train has left the
station. The case for impeachment and
removal from office have been the focus of these columns for nearly a quarter
of a decade and, after nearly a quarter of a decade, the locomotive has finally
departed for certain destination. Our
Caesar Disgustus, it has been long observed, must go.
What finally spurred the Democratic
leadership to action was the attempt by our intrepid Caesar to violate all
norms of international conduct by conducting what can only be described as the
21st century shakedown.
What brought the whole sordid
affair to light was the leak by an anonymous whistleblower revealing that
Disgustus had withheld 381 million in aid to Ukraine unless and until the
government of that country signed on to and publicly announced that it would
begin investigations into former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter, as
well as the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
election. In other words, military
support to a nation currently under attack by Russian backed forces were made
conditional on Ukrainian endorsement of tin-hat wrong-wing conspiracy theories
currently circulating, like a bad case of indigestion, in the bowels of hate
radio and crypto-fascist publications.
Of course, at first the White House
denied everything contending, with a straight face, that no such conversations took
place. The president* contending that
his phone conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky was ‘perfect’; “A
perfect 10”, according to Disgustus, as if reporting the results of a tits
and ass contest. But then, our ‘stable
genius’, uses only the best words, the choicest adjectives to explain himself—or,
more correctly, obfuscate, confuse and mislead—that is, lie.
To underscore his version of the ‘truth’,
he released a summary of the phone conversation in question in which, in black
and white, the President of Ukraine is reminding Disgustus that his government
is in desperate need of weapons—called Javelins—with which to ward off Russian built
tanks. “But I need a favor from you,
though” replies Disgustus laying bare the “quid pro quo”.
It is, of course, illegal for the
president* to withhold appropriated funds.
A law was passed in 1974—in the wake of Watergate and Richard Nixon’s sequestering
of Congressional appropriations—that explicitly forbids any president so to
do.
So here we have Disgustus violating
federal law while extorting a foreign government in an effort to fabricate a
false narrative not only on his political opponents but upon the origins of the
investigations that have called into question the legitimacy of this
regime.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that
it is a mistake to name one’s son Hunter.
It is further a colossal lapse in judgement for this son to take a
position with a Ukrainian gas company for which he has been paid
handsomely. But the screed coming from
the White House and its supporters that somehow Biden is corrupt and has moved
to stymie crackdowns on Ukrainian corruption simply don’t pass the smell
test.
Yes, Hunter Biden had no business in
Ukraine. But the efforts by Biden and
the Obama administration to remove prosecutors in Ukraine were designed to get
people into these positions in order to crack down on corruption in the country
and were supported by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund,
among others.
But, following the Karl Rove
playbook, up becomes down, and white becomes black as the need to smear, in the
face of one’s own transgressions, becomes imperative.
It is rich, for instance, for
Disgustus and his minions to howl about Hunter Biden getting favorable
treatment because his father was Vice President of the United States given the
chicanery involving Jarvanka and their dealings in China, Saudi Arabia, Israel
and elsewhere. But this is what
Disgustus does.
But, it transpires, this is not a
singular incident. Rachel Maddow reported
last week that a year ago the administration was withholding aid to Ukraine
unless the government there cooperated and that the President Zelensky held
several meetings with his staff about how to deal with the pressure coming from
Washington before taking office.
Further, Disgustus, in order to drive home the point, kept Vice
President* Pence from attending the inauguration of Zelensky, simply sending
the Ambassador and lower level diplomats to the event as a way of underscoring
the tenuous nature of administration support in the absence of real zeal in the
perpetration of fraud.
Disgustus did release the aid three
weeks before it was due to expire, but only because the whistleblower’s memo
had surfaced and the resulting howl it created in Washington sent the rats
scurrying as they moved swiftly to backtrack.
So while Disgustus went in early September
to make his annual address to the United Nations, Washington released the military
aid to Ukraine but, as Zelensky finally got his meeting in the White House, he
was not so subtly instructed by Disgustus—as if once again to remind the
Ukrainians, and all of our allies of the capricious and tenuous nature of our commitments—to
make his peace with Putin.
An Br’er Putin, he jus’ laugh
and laugh
Impeach and Imprison.
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Note: The * is used here, once again, to underscore the illegitimacy
of Disgustus and his regime.
