TDS: The Obsession with Donald Trump

Everybody knows that impeachment is not popular with the voters and a majority want to move on from the RUSSIAN collusion political soap opera. But what do you do when your political base is a bunch of blood-thirsty, camera-whore, anti-Trump hotheads? You hold fake impeachment hearings: all of the spectacle with none of the political damage. We'll see how that works out, but today, Nadler will begin the fake impeachment hearings in the Judiciary Committee ...

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Chairman Jerry Nadler about his plans for fake impeachment.

In light of Monday’s hearing entitled, “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes,” I am compelled to remind you...Collins' letter directs Nadler and his ilk to read Jefferson's Manual on parliamentary procedure written by Thomas Jefferson, which is incorporated into the rules of the House of Representatives...

Here are some of the points Collins reminds Nadler of:

-Personal abuse, innuendo, or ridicule of the President is not permitted.
-It is not in order to call the President a ‘‘liar’’ or accuse such person of ‘‘lying’’.
-It is not in order to cast aspersions on the ethical behavior of the President.
-Accusations that the President has committed a crime, or even that the President has done something illegal, are unparliamentary.
-Language impugning the patriotism or loyalty of the President is not in order
-Personally disparaging the manner in which the President carries out the duties of the office can constitute a personality, such as when the remarks suggest that the President is an undemocratic leader akin to a dictator.
-A Member may not read in debate extraneous material personally abusive of the President that would be improper if spoken in the Member’s own words, such as material labeling the President’s statement a lie....