OPINION:
Talk radio great and Fox News host Mark Levin, on his Facebook page, called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “put an end” to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s politically motivated hold-up of the impeachment articles, by declaring the whole matter “null and void.”
That’s one way of making clear the stuff and nonsense of the Democratic Party has come to an end.
Levin wrote: “Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate. So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act.”
So what’s a good Republican Senate leader to do?
This: “McConnell should immediately put an end to this and declare the impeachment null and void as the speaker has failed to complete the impeachment process by timely sending it to the Senate for adjudication.”
It’s bad enough the impeachment game the Democrats have been playing for roughly three years has turned the concepts of law and order and due process on their heads.
Now, at what’s supposed to be the end game of impeachment for the left — the handover of articles for the adults in the Senate to deal with, i.e., scorn and dismiss — the Democrats want to extend play?
“The Senate has the sole power under the Constitution to adjudicate an impeachment. Therefore, Pelosi is attempting to obstruct the Senate’s power to act on its constitutional authority,” Levin wrote. “McConnell has no less authority to unilaterally make such a decision [to declare impeachment null and void] than Pelosi does to withhold the administrative notification of an impeachment to the Senate either indefinitely or with conditions.”
That’s true.
It’s tit-for-tat time.
Pelosi’s not a god. She’s not even a good politician.
“Her effort,” Levin wrote, “to cripple the presidency and blackmail the Senate must be defeated.”
And it will.
That’s why she’s throwing in with the last-ditch effort of keeping the articles within her control: It’s her last wedge.
Her dying gasp at impeachment.
And she knows it.
The Republicans, on impeachment, are just about to grab hold of all the cards — and for Democrats, it’s a terrifying moment.
It’s when they lose all.
It’s when they have to look to law and order and due process for redress — the election, the voters. And they know: On that, they can’t win.
Democrats’ only hope for power is by deception and divisiveness. When they’re forced to play by the rules, they always come up empty.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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