Hate can be all consuming, especially for those on the left who have trouble controlling their own emotions. Well, as if they are even trying to exert any control. The leftist ideology is, of course, based on a ‘do what you feel’ attitude. One leftist billionaire shows us just how far one can go with hate. Tom Steyer is bankrolling the movement to impeach our President.
teyer, who made his fortune as a hedge-fund manager, built the Need to Impeachcampaign as an offshoot of his group NextGen America, best known for climate advocacy. He says his impeachment initiative is not only essential for protecting the rule of law in America – it can also be a potent electoral force, activating millions of younger voters who usually sit out elections because they’ve lost faith in the Democratic Party.
Need to Impeach has gathered 5.4 million signatures supporting Trump’s ouster – primarily for violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution (by taking business funds from foreign governments) and obstructing justice in the Russia probe, among other offenses.
Rolling Stone interviewer Tim Dickinson pointed out that Pelosi’s strategy of opposing the impeachment of President George W. Bush helped. Democrats take back both chambers of Congress in an electoral rout that year. That’s when Steyer let out a Freudian slip.
Maybe I wasn’t clear, the idea is that Democrats, returning to power in the House, would have subpoena power. She pointed to how she dealt with George W. Bush – whom many wanted to impeach. She believes the decision to take impeachment off the table helped Democrats take the House in 2006, and paved a path to Obama and a deeper correction.
I remember 2006. What happened is that George W. Bush, he put us in two disastrous wars and we were headed toward the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression. So if the answer is that we need those three things to happen for a course correction, I’d prefer to move a little quicker. How about that? But I take your point. Maybe we can have, like, a nuclear war and then we get a real course correction.
Steyer then back peddled.
Wow – that’s…sobering.
We’re trying to do what’s right. And 2006/2008 did not happen because George W. Bush didn’t get impeached, is what I’m saying. I should be a little bit more tempered: I take back that remark about nuclear war. The correction happened because the United States got screwed, and American citizens lost their houses and American citizens lost their lives – and, by the way, there was a terrible climate-related crisis, New Orleans, that the president fumbled. So that course correction was based on the suffering of American citizens. We’re trying to act expeditiously to avoid the suffering of American citizens.
Donald J. Trump didn’t actually generate all this rage we see pouring out of the left with ever increasing intensity, he just exposed it.
Source: Rolling Stone
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