Texas Republicans in Congress understand that impeachment of Trump is a sham

If you were expecting any of the Republicans who represent the Lone Star State in either the House or Senate to support the impeachment of President Donald Trump, you are going to be disappointed.

The president will have the support of all 23 Republican members of the U.S. House from Texas when the vote is taken there, and then both our senators will join their colleagues in exonerating him in his trial in the upper chamber.

With the next election less than 11 months away, the higher calling of deciding on Trump’s fitness to continue in office is in the hands of the people. Not congressional Democrats who, to repeat the obvious, simply hate the man.

Evidence of that conclusion is abundant. Why else would any rational person want to see the president prosecuted on the basis of nothing more than the opinions of those who will never accept Trump’s election?

Without substantial evidence of any sort of crimes or misdemeanors that would justify removing the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, along with congressional committee chairmen such as new York’s Jerry Nadler and California’s Adam Schiff, have used their collective power to proceed anyway to try to overturn the will of voters.

And then there is Pelosi’s visceral reaction when asked by a reporter if she hated the president. You don’t see that kind of outrage in response unless you have touched a nerve. She self-righteously declared that her Catholicism meant she didn’t hate anyone.

Protecting human life developing inside a woman is also something the Catholic faith stands for, but Pelosi somehow finds that to be unimportant as a measure of her own conviction because it isn’t to her supporters.

There has been considerable speculation that the speaker really didn’t want to risk the 2020 elections with an impeachment agenda that has dominated the past three years.

That risk has now been fully engaged. Virtually nothing that would improve the lives of the American people has developed in this Congress.

Together with the best economy in the lifetime of anyone living today, the president now has the additional momentum provided by this waste of valuable time caused by the Democrats.

It all started with Trump’s inauguration with hope for the Russia hoax to somehow prevail as the way to get rid of him. When it didn’t, Democrats had to find something else.

So, now we have just two stated reasons for his impeachment. The first is that he interfered with the 2020 election by extorting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Never mind that Zelensky said that blackmail never happened, the spurious charge has been put forward anyway.

The second crime alleged is that Trump has interfered with congressional committees working on impeachment. The fact that Trump’s cooperation or lack of it would make no difference in Democrats’ mission to remove him is not lost on congressional Republicans nor most of the public.

My conclusions of where this is headed are based on findings of polls, such as the one last month conducted by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune. It revealed that 78 percent of Texas Republicans believe the impeachment investigations are not justified.

When asked if Trump’s actions merit early removal from office, just under 80 percent replied with a resounding “no.”

There is another Texan in the congressional delegation that we should mention. Democrat Al Green summed it all up best: “I’m concerned if we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.”

That’s remarkable insight into how this has proceeded and where it is likely to end.