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Episode 313: Impeachment Season 2 Review / RIP Rush Limbaugh

February 22, 2021

“Impeachment season 2” is now behind us. I give my review of this shortened season (short due to no investigation episodes and because no witnesses were called).
And one of the greats of talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, has passed away. He was a pioneer in his field, bringing conservative views and explaining them in a way that we could all understand them.
Mentioned links:
Senate Impeachment Trial: January 6 Video Montage
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70
New Jersey man explains how he made 14-foot Lincoln snow sculpture
Chicago Lists Lincoln Statues Among Monuments to Review

Show transcript
Impeachment season 2 has come and gone. It ended the same way but there was a little more drama this time. They had to include that because, as I said a few weeks ago, they shortened the season by skipping the episodes about the actual investigation to determine if a crime had even been committed. Essentially the grand jury met and immediately voted to indict the defendant. I give it two and a half stars. This was no Perry Mason.
OK, enough of the TV analogy. Here’s what happened. The Democrats in the House of Representatives wanted this fast-tracked, presumably to try to get Donald Trump out of office before he brokered another Middle East peace deal. So without a single shred of forethought or due process, they got a majority in the House to quickly vote to impeach Trump a second time. But instead of quick-marching the one article of impeachment over to the Senate, instead of bringing it on Wednesday afternoon, they waited until the following Monday, postponing the Senate trial by 6 days. (Since they brought them over on Monday, the Constitution requires that the trial begin at 1pm the following day, Tuesday, 6 days after the impeachment vote.) Yeah, so much for the supposed urgency. And in the meantime, Trump’s term ended.
When the Senate trial started, one of the big things they led off with was a montage – one might call it a “heavily edited video” – that cut between Trump using the word “fight” in a sentence and shots of the horrific Capitol riot. Now, I went back and watched it while preparing for this episode and it was gut-wrenching all over again. But it was what I see a lot of arguments from the Left are; a 13-minute appeal to emotion, not to be confused with an appeal to the law. You know what they didn’t show? Donald Trump saying to go to the Capitol and cheer on those Republicans doing what Trump wanted. They didn’t show Trump telling them to peacefully and patriotically protest at the Capitol. If he intended to incite, he was doing it wrong. If reciting the same rhetoric about a stolen election (that he had been claiming for 2 months) was incitement, the word has changed meaning recently (which, I guess, is quite possible as many other words have like “racist”, “tolerance”, and “woman”). Oh, and no witnesses were called, I guess to go with no investigation. A year ago, Chuck Shumer said an impeachment trial without witnesses was a sham. So, was Chuck even trying this time?
Trump was ultimately acquitted, but since he was acquitted for something who’s legal definition wouldn’t be enough to convict him in court, the concerning thing is how many would vote for conviction, especially since he wasn’t, as I said, given due process. And to those who say that impeachment doesn’t require that a law be broken, you’re right, but maybe refrain from using legal terms in the future. If you want to impeach a President because he’s a poo-poo head and doesn’t do what you want him to do,