President Trump’s impeachment message to the Speaker of the House: A close read

By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Dec. 18, 2019

Let’s look at some of the more interesting parts of the letter that President Donald Trump sent yesterday to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

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This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers…

Two American presidents have been impeached to date; Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 when it became clear that Congress would almost certainly impeach and remove him from office. Impeachment and removal of the chief executive is a mechanism incorporated into the Constitution by the Founding Fathers.

The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence. They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.

These are the first two examples of many instances in the letter where the president lists three or more items. He claims that the impeachment articles are not recognized under a standard of Consitutional theory, interpretation or jurisprudence (1-2-3). He further asserts that they include no crimes, no misdemeanors, no offenses (1-2-3).

President Donald Trump’s Dec. 17, 2019, message to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on impeachment

Author’s note: President Trump’s letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on impeachment is widely available on the web in portable document format. However, I wanted to present it in text form, as many readers, myself included, find that easier to absorb. I’ll have some comments on the president’s message in an upcoming post. MEM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

December 17, 2019

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, DC. 20515

Dear Madam Speaker:

I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.

The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence. They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever. You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!

Cheeps and Chirps for Nov. 28, 2018

By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Nov. 28, 2018

The finest hand-crafted autumnal tweets.

• Politics

Republicans in Michigan, folks. I’m sure Reagan and Eisenhower would be very proud.

Via @Rschooley and @LOLGOP. https://t.co/tEIQ51zBIf pic.twitter.com/J6SKJM6uMe

— Matt Milliken | masks on for safety | mostly @HOME (@memomoment) October 31, 2018

Hush your mouth.

— Matt Milliken | masks on for safety | mostly @HOME (@memomoment) November 6, 2018

Moments ago, I submitted my ballot, the 475th to be accepted today at George Watts Elementary School in #DurhamNC. #Midterm2018 pic.twitter.com/N5d7JySWBO

— Matt Milliken | masks on for safety | mostly @HOME (@memomoment) November 6, 2018

Yes, the opposition to Obama is fierce and often ugly — but no, racism is not the primary factor behind it

By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
Oct. 16, 2013

As the latest Washington imbroglio, Congress’ wrangling over the debt ceiling, rolls toward what will almost certainly be a messy last-minute resolution, I wanted to comment on one corner of America’s not-so-civil discourse.

Specifically, I wanted to examine a fairly widely held contention on the left: That much of the animus toward President Obama is rooted in racism.

Now, I have no doubt that a not-insignificant tranche of opposition to the former senator from Kenya — er, I mean Illinois — is motivated by bigotry. (Search Twitter for the president’s last name and the extremely offensive slur nigger if you feel the need to prove that point, or to shake your faith in the character of the American people.) But there are many conservatives who gainsay Obama based on a panoply of other far less objectionable motivations.

The best way to demonstrate that much of the fervent conservative hatred of Barack Hussein Obama has no basis in racism is to look at the rhetoric toward prominent white Democrats.