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Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., center, is joined by, from left, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., as he hosts a news conference with a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers who are demanding the U.S. government should be required to seek warrants if it wants to search for information about Americans and insist on reforms to the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 to protect Americansâ rights, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The problems confronting the Democrats on impeachment are few but devastating.
The Articles of Impeachment, themselves, are slapdash and the major article that Nancy Pelosi promised, bribery, is nowhere to be found. Impeachment is very unpopular anywhere outside of Democrat strongholds and in the leftist swamps of the internet. The Senate is not predisposed to really go after a president in an election year when that president has the support of 90+% of the GOP. And the House Republicans have done a stellar job of portraying the House process managed by Schiff and Nadler as highly partisan and unfair. This perception will be amplified when no Republicans break ranks and vote for impeachment but some number of Democrats do exactly last.
Right now you can see a series of things in motion to try to change those perceptions. Chuck Schumer has demanded that the GOP follow the same rules followed during the Clinton impeachment (READ: Schumer Sends Letter Including Witness Request List for Senate Trial to Mitch McConnell, Good Luck Chuck). The theme here is that it is imperative that the hearing be fairâŠnot fair to the guy who was railroaded by a bad faith investigation carried out by Robert Mueller but fair to the people trying to turn that travesty into political advantage.