Kurt Bardella: Trump Deserves To Have the Permanent Stain of Impeachment

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BARDELLA: "Well, I’ll tell you, Joe, you know, if I were the House Democrats, there’s nothing stopping me right now from convening the oversight Judiciary Committee, play the audio in full for an hour straight, make every member sit there and listen to it. And then vote on impeachment right there because that — there has to be a cost for these things. Even if he won’t be removed and indicted by the Senate, President Trump deserves the historical stain, the permanent stain, of impeachment. There’s a reason why these processes exist in the first place. It’s to have some measure of accountability even if not in real time but for the future and in the context. It has to be very made clear by a coequal branch of government that what Donald Trump is caught on tape doing is it’s illegal, wrong, undemocratic. There has to be a mechanism for accountability and when I think of what’s going on in the Congress right now with decision council going on right now, the last time we had an opposition president coming into office, this isn’t 2009. This reminds me of the conflict that drove John Boehner and Eric Cantor out of Congress when they had a caucus they couldn’t control. When they let the base overrun everything, let the populism run everything and let Breitbart and Fox News being the center of the party they couldn’t control it. The fact that Mitch McConnell had the conference call trying to talk to Hawley about what he was doing and Hawley wasn’t even on the call. Didn’t care about Mcconnell enough to show up to talk to him about it, I think that tells you right now that Mcconnell is in a very different situation than he’s ever been before. 2009 we had people like Olympia snow or Chris Dodd or John McCain, John Kerry, it was a different United States Senate, people who cared about the institution and cared about the democracy more than partisanship and those type of figures are gone now and they have been replaced by Hawley and Cruz and Marco Rubio. People that we know are spineless. We know don’t have any true conservative values. They don’t have any policy agenda or anything driving them other than the pursuit of power. For all of those people who think foolishly they can kowtow to Donald Trump and turn around and give his blessing and run for president they have not been paying attention because every relationship that President Trump has, go ask Jeff Sessions, go ask Michael Cohen or Bill Barr, they are trashed and they’re left with Tatters of their reputation."