Counting Votes
Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) can count votes. If she has a simple majority, she can call for a vote for articles of impeachment. Facts are not necessary, proof is not necessary, it’s simply a partisan vote.

The matter is then referred to the US Senate for Trial. It will be presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
During the Trial
The President will have the right to subpoena witnesses including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper, Big Jim Comey, etc. They will testify under oath under penalty of perjury and they’ll turn on each other in a public setting.
The Vote
The Republicans and a few Democrats will vote not to impeach the president (a 2/3 majority must vote to uphold the impeachment if he’s to be removed from office). 
The Aftermath
The Democrat Party will be shredded and the corrupt, lying mainstream media will complain that the Trump impeachment was rigged.
AND THAT is why Nancy Pelosi has not put an impeachment vote on the floor of Congress.
Now, the Mail:
A Late Arrival

OldAFSarge – Nature can be pleasant to contemplate. When it’s not trying to kill you that is!

That’s why it’s useful to go afield with the means to defend yourself. I apply the same standard in cities that I visit in the event that a cretin decides that I’d make a splendid victim.  

LSP –  Great pics and a pleasant change from the impeachment circus.

As you can see (above) we’re back to the circus. The donkeys don’t want an impeachment trial, because it would be a trial of Barack Obama, Slow Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton ultimately. They know it and President Trump knows it.

Jules – How very beautiful! You did the right thing moving there. I’d be up and in that all day long. Nature cures a lot.

I went to Wollaton park ( home of Batman in the movies) and the T. Tex and I got cornered by a gigantic stag in rutting season. That was a touch and go scenario let me tell you! 

The silence and the wind through the pines is addicting. It’s good that you had Terrible Tex the wolf-dog to hold the gigantic stag at bay. In a year or so, he’ll bring the stag down for you and you can eat stag steaks and stag jerky.

Jim – You seem to have a wider variety of wildlife than we do. No elk or javelina, but whitetails and turkeys abound, plus coyotes aplenty and bobcats and rumors of mountain lions for predators. The apex predator of the whitetail seems to be the motor vehicle.

I live an hour’s drive from the nearest town. That makes a difference.

DaveS – Saw a pair of young fawns (late season babies) just a few weeks ago – and now we’re bracing for 18″-36″ of snow this weekend. Mother Nature can be harsh.

I don’t know what the winter kill rate is on late season fawns. Where I am, we don’t usually get that much snow. Last year set a record for both cold temperatures and snow depth… and the young deer did just fine, but they weren’t fawns.

Raven – Nice living in the woods, isn’t it!

It’s good for the soul.

Woodsterman – Enjoy it while you can. We all only have 12 more years to live, you know.

I think that they said that two years ago, and the clock is remorseless. We’re down to ten years remaining after which all life on Earth will die. However, a ten year threat isn’t all that ominous to me because I might not live that long. Predicting that I have ten years to live makes me say, “cool”. I’m frankly shocked that I have lived as long as I have, being a wicked old SOB and all that. 

WSF – Didn’t know javelinas were rodents. the things one learns reading blogs is amazing.

It’s all part of the service.

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12 COMMENTS

  1. I always enjoy reading your blog. Sometimes I learn a new to me thing and sometimes I just enjoy reading about what's going on around you. Also, you have a way of looking at the political scene that both informs and entertains me.

    Thanks for the post.
    Paul L. Quandt

  2. Cap'n Bob and the Damsel talk about all the javelinas they have down Wickenburg way. They tear up stuff and are annoying.

    We had some reports of bears coming down out of the hills in the last week or so. Don't if that portends anything, but it's a reminder that we do live "In The Country" out here. The only animal attacks we've heard of is the guy that wrestled the mountain lion last year, and he won.

    I think Teh Authoritahs said it was a juvenile lion, probably practicing his hunting skills.

  3. Some news outlets are predicting the Repubs that don't like Trump will turn on him in an impeachment trial.

    Didn't the 'end of life on Earth' countdown start when Al Gore left office?

  5. Hear all these political talking heads spouting off the the President is corrupt, lies, isn't fit to be commander-in-chief, etc. but don't see any specific, detailed allegations spelled out.

  7. Will they impeach? Sound minds will not, but we aren't talking about the sane here. The donkeys have a long history of squandering public funds with no apparent positive result. Of course the GOP isn't innocent of this. I thought the Clinton impeachment never should have happened, not because I thought him innocent(guilty IMHO), but given the makeup of the Senate, conviction was impossible. Tme and treasure was wasted. Of course if he had been convicted, we would then have President Gore.
    Speaking of Gore, I do believe the 12 years to go resets annually, so we still have 12 to go. That suits me since I too have borrowed time on several occasions.

  10. Here's another "Impeachment" factoid headline:

    bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49848103

    I must say I'm just shocked that yet another big bureaucratic agency has decided to try an play Politburo games. Who could ever have seen this coming?

    -Kle.

  11. Another nefarious advance attempt by swamp-dweller lowlife's to steal an election because they can't win fair and square. A 3-year old knows better.

    The Whistle blower draft is written "too lawyerly"…because…lawyers can only do what lawyers do; ingrained terminology and process glares in the nine pages of worthless hearsay. Might have even come out of Schiff's office. (Schiff – one of those nudge's most likely to get stuffed in a locker in Junior High because he annoyed everyone around him.)

    Turning it off for the day…to much of these lunatics and it starts to mess with the mind and rob the joy.

  12. Up until now Nancy PeLousy hasn't put impeachment before the commies in the House because she DOES understand the risks and the probable results from doing so. However Peloser is LOSING HER GRIP on the reins of power over the demonrats. The young commies coming up through the ranks like Occasionally-Conscious etc. et.al are nipping at her heels and seeking to remove her from control of the party so THEY can drive the bus. That puts the old battle axe between a rock and a hard place. Refuse to talk impeachment and the party may very well remove her from control of the House and thus the party….or she actually moves forward with the process and hopes for the best. Either way the senile old goose has a tiger by the tail.

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