By Mike Huckabee
February 8, 2021
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Good evening! Today's Evening Edition includes:
- Daily Bible Verse
- President Trump's Impeachment Defense
- “Normality!”
- RIP George Schultz
- Social Media Update
- “Aggressive niceness.”
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Motto
- Good luck
- Americans are fed-up with cancel culture
- Nailed it
Sincerely,
Mike Huckabee
BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY
President Trump's Impeachment Defense
By Mike Huckabee
Monday, President Trump’s attorneys released a legal brief detailing their planned defense in his “impeachment” trial (the quotes are because this is to a real impeachment what a tofu “turkey” is to real turkey.)
Background and the full text of the brief are here.
But to save you having to scroll all the way through it, here are the major arguments, taken directly from the attorneys’ own closing summary:
“The Article of Impeachment presented by the House is unconstitutional for a variety of reasons, any of which alone would be grounds for immediate dismissal. Taken together, they demonstrate conclusively that indulging House Democrats hunger for this political theater is a danger to our Republic democracy and the rights that we hold dear. Reasons for dismissal include:
1. The Senate of the United States lacks jurisdiction over the 45th President because he holds no public office from which he can be removed, and the Constitution limits the authority of the Senate in cases of impeachment to removal from office as the prerequisite active remedy allowed the Senate under our Constitution.
2. The Senate of the United States lacks jurisdiction over the 45th President because he holds no public office from which he can be removed rendering the Article of Impeachment moot and a non-justiciable question.
3. Should the Senate act on the Article of Impeachment initiated in the House of Representatives, it will have passed a Bill of Attainder in violation of Article 1,Sec. 9. Cl. 3 of the United States Constitution.
4. The allegations in the Article of Impeachment are self-evidently wrong, as demonstrated by the evidence including the transcript of the President’s actual speech, and the allegations fail to meet the constitutional standard for any crime, let alone an impeachable offense.
5. The House of Representatives deprived the 45th President of due process of law in rushing to issue the Article of Impeachment and by ignoring its own procedures and precedents going back to the mid-19th century. The lack of due process included, but was not limited to, its failure to conduct any meaningful committee review or other investigation, engage in any full and fair consideration of evidence in support of the Article, as well as the failure to conduct any full and fair discussion by allowing the 45th President’s positions to be heard in the House Chamber. No exigent circumstances under the law were present excusing the House of Representatives’ rush to judgment, as evidenced by the fact that they then held the Article for another 12 days.
6. The Article of Impeachment violates the 45th President’s right to free speech and thought guaranteed under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
7. The Article is constitutionally flawed in that it charges multiple instances of allegedly impeachable conduct in a single article.”
Some of the arguments are new, including the “bill of attainder” claim. FYI: a bill of attainder is when the legislature finds a person or group guilty of a crime and punishes them, usually without benefit of trial, and it’s forbidden. As point #5 notes, that’s what happened when the House voted to impeach Trump with no investigation, evidence, defense or due process.
“Normality!”
By Mike Huckabee
President Biden wants to redirect $30 billion from a fund Trump set up to help farmers hurt by the trade war and use it to fight climate change and support restaurants. No word on what those restaurants will use for food.
RIP George Schultz
By Mike Huckabee
One of the major geopolitical figures of the past half century has died at 100. George Shultz was best known as Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State, where he helped bring the Cold War to an end. He was an author, scholar, Medal of Freedom recipient, Marine veteran, economist, educator and one of only two people ever to hold four different Cabinet posts, as the Secretary of State, Labor and the Treasury and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, under three different Presidents. And he was active to the end, writing an op-ed for the Washington Post in December, just before his 100th birthday.
You can read more about his extraordinary life at this link.
Social Media Update
By Mike Huckabee
After being banned by most social media outlets, President Trump returned with his first post since January. It’s just a repost of his attorneys’ blunt response to the Senate’s letter inviting him to testify in his “impeachment” trial. But the opening sentence was familiarly Trumpian: “We are in receipt of your latest public relations stunt…”
I’m sure that Trump supporters will be most interested in knowing where he chose to post it, and that was at Gab.com. This story reports that Parler.com offered him 40% of the business if he went exclusively with them (naturally, Democrats are “DEMANDING AN INVESTIGATION,” even though Trump didn't do it – I’m more interested in investigating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million in-kind contribution to electing Biden, but don’t hold your breath waiting for that.)
Meanwhile, Parler is still offline. But investor Dan Bongino says it could be back this week, maybe as early as today.
“Aggressive niceness.”
By Mike Huckabee
A Los Angeles Times editor wrote an op-ed that’s getting a lot of comment because it’s such a perfect example of the left’s utter lack of self-awareness of what they have become, and how they’ve adopted a stunningly intolerant, narrow-minded attitude and embraced negative stereotypes and guilt by association. Bryan Preston at PJ Media has a good commentary on it, but there are many more floating around.
The gist is that the writer is flummoxed because her Trump-supporting neighbors took it upon themselves to shovel the snow off her driveway, just as a friendly, neighborly act. And they did a really good job of it, too.
Now, she’s all twitterpated. She doesn’t know how to respond to their “aggressive niceness.” Should she thank them? If so, how much? After all, how can she thank people she compares to Nazis, the terrorist group Hezbollah and violent rioters (pretty sure 99.9% of those are on the left, by the way.) They’re also staunch partisans of “blue lives,” and we all know how horrible it is to care about the lives of the police – you know, those people who protect leftists like her from all those imaginary “rightwing rioters.”
She also writes that her neighbors “supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans. They kept him in business with their support…Americans are expected to forgive and forget before we’ve even stitched up our wounds. Or gotten our vaccines against the pandemic that former President Trump utterly failed to mitigate.”
(Uh…where does she think those vaccines came from? And please show me the wounds Trump inflicted on you. Psychic wounds from losing the 2016 election don’t count.)
No matter how nice her neighbors are, she remains filled with hatred and contempt for them because they don’t vote the way she does -- her views, naturally, being the only pure, correct, good and acceptable way to see the world. I wonder if, like so many on the left these days, she wants to round them up and put them in concentration camps, because “THOSE PEOPLE are Nazis!”
There’s a meme online that’s been going around for quite a while. It’s a clip from a British comedy sketch in which a question suddenly dawns on a Nazi soldier: “Are WE the baddies?” It was used a lot against Trump supporters, but I think it’s far more applicable here.
The hilariously non-PC Kurt Schlichter also offers some tough love advice to leftist political junkies who are overdosing on wokeism, which he compares quite aptly to other dangerous, soul-crushing, mind-destroying drugs:
Our leftist moral superiors who are filled with hatred and contempt for their fellow Americans who treat them kindly should ponder that question, “Are we the baddies?” It might also help them answer the question, “Why does hardly anyone trust the media anymore?”
Personally, I wouldn’t trust them to shovel the snow off my driveway competently.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Motto
By Mike Huckabee
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s motto could be “Rules for thee but not for me.” She got her hair done while her constituents were banned from salons. She defended rioters who attacked Washington and praised environmental protesters who “occupied” her office, then wanted to impeach anyone who didn’t forcefully condemn the rioters who attacked the Capitol. She banned “gendered” language, then proudly described herself as a mother and grandmother. And now, she’s trying to dock the pay of Republican legislators by thousands of dollars for breaking a rule that she ignores herself.
Good luck
By Mike Huckabee
The Democrats seem to have built their entire party around accusing people of racism, but if you are Asian-American, good luck getting the Biden Administration to stop people from discriminating against you.
Americans are fed-up with cancel culture
By Mike Huckabee
After rising country star Morgan Wallen was videotaped behaving badly while drunk, he issued a statement saying, “I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.” But of course, this is 2021, so that wasn’t good enough. His radio airplay dropped 71%, and his record label, streaming services and the ACM Awards all turned their backs on him.
But then, a strange thing happened: his record sales leaped more than 300%.
I’m sure this will be used as another excuse for the left to paint all Americans who like country music as racist white supremacists supporting racist white supremacy. And maybe there are a few people who bought his music for that reason.
But I suspect the real reason is not because they were showing support for using a racial slur, but because they are fed up with the “cancel culture” trying to destroy people’s lives and careers because they made a dumb mistake for which they have publicly apologized. Country music lovers also tend to be Christians who know that nobody’s perfect, and we all need forgiveness. I suspect that while they personally condemn Wallen’s behavior and expect him to be sincere in his apology and shape up, they’re equally unhappy with hypocritical, judgmental rage mobs trying to destroy people for not living up to standards of tolerance that they fall far short of meeting themselves.
And I also suspect that some of those fans know that if it weren’t for people getting drunk and doing dumb things they later regret, half of all country songs wouldn’t even exist.
Nailed it
By Mike Huckabee
The satirical site The Babylon Bee presents a way for Mike Lindell of MyPillow to get back in the left’s good graces…
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