{"id":12173,"date":"2020-02-03T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:41:31","slug":"up-schiffs-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/up-schiffs-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Schiff&#8217;s Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Schiff is starting to wear on his own. He may be the darling of leftwing cable news. But like a moth to a candle, the California congressman is sucked into the camera lights, without realizing how he is scorched and consumed. He hijacked the Democratic House impeachment effort and then did the same in the Senate. As the inspiration for the entire farce, he is the man most responsible for the ensuing damage to the country and his party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, Schiff wanted to rush through impeachment in the House before the holidays and, in part, was responsible for not getting proper authorization to issue subpoenas to witnesses. He then politicized the calling of witnesses, and selectively leaked testimonies taken in the House basement\u2014only to whine about partisanship when he wanted to slow down the impeachment trial in the Senate. In other words, he objected to the same sort of partisanship that he had introduced into the inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what will be the status of a post-impeachment Schiff, once the impeachment farce has lost its luster?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks in part to Schiff, President Trump is polling more strongly now than when Schiff began the circus in September.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks in part to Schiff, the erstwhile frontrunner and best Democratic presidential chance, Joe Biden, is left hemorrhaging from impeachment\u2019s never-ending embarrassments about Hunter Biden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks in part to Schiff, Trump now enjoys more party solidarity than any recent Republican president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks in part to Schiff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been made irrelevant, and the formula that won the House in 2018 is ancient history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks in part to Schiff, Trump rallies have gone ballistic with about 40 percent of his audiences including Democrats and Independents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/02\/02\/up-schiffs-creek\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Adam Schiff is starting to wear on his own. He may be the darling of leftwing cable news. But like a moth to a candle, the California congressman is sucked into the camera lights, without realizing how he is scorched and consumed. He hijacked the Democratic House impeachment effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3al","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12080,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/quo-vadis-democrati\/","url_meta":{"origin":12173,"position":0},"title":"Quo Vadis, Democrati?","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Where are the Democrats going next? 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