The Democrats' Trump impeachment fetish

House Democrats are s-l-o-w-l-y growing out of their Trump impeachment obsession. They aren't close to shaking their unhealthy insistence on impeaching President Trump but more Democrats have noticed that voting on President Trump's impeachment isn't helping Democrats. Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Al Green, (D-TX), brought a single article of impeachment against President Trump. To say that things didn't go well for Rep. Green is understatement.

The report quoted Rep. Green as saying "I take no delight in what I’m doing. I do this because no one person should have the power to take over 300 million people to war without consulting with the Congress of the United States of America." That isn't true. I didn't hear a peep from Democrats when Barack Obama sent troops into Libya to take out Moammar Qaddafi. Rep. Green was silent about Libya even though he's been in the House since 2005. But I digress. The truth is that if it weren't for double standards, Democrats wouldn't have standards.

The thing that people shouldn't forget is that 40% of House Democrats voted to impeach Trump:

A majority of House Democrats banded together with their Republican peers to table an effort to impeach President Trump over his strikes against Iran. In an overwhelming 344 to 79 vote, the House opted to shelve a single article of impeachment from Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who has repeatedly pushed to oust Trump in recent months. A whopping 128 Democrats voted against impeachment.
Still, 40% of House Democrats voted for impeaching President for doing the same thing that they sat silent about when President Obama did the same thing. Kevin McCarthy gets it right in this interview:

President Trump, like all previous presidents, is allowed to protect the citizens of this nation. Article II Section 2 literally states:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Further, Article I, Section 10 states:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Rep. Green's article of impeachment didn't meet the Constitution's high standard for impeahcment. It was a frivolous motion, which is why 60% of his fellow Democrats voted to table his priveleged motion of impeachment. Democrats should've learned what is an impeachable offense. Apparently, they can't resist the temptation.

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