Dec. 19, 2019, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to stock market indices shrugging off impeachment:

“The stock market continued its climb to new record highs in the aftermath of the House impeachment of President Trump. It is clear that investors are dismissing the House-manufactured crisis as a big, fat nothingburger. Normally, we would not even pay any attention to day-to-day stock markets as they have little economic predictive value. However, when Wall Street yawns at an impeachment vote between submitting buy orders, it is instructive about the general disregard for the House’s frantic attempt to politically wound the President. Speaker Pelosi’s best hope is that Congress breaks for Christmas and the American people forget her party’s collective political pout. Maybe this explains why Pelosi is not sending the Articles of Impeachment to the adults in the Senate where she will summarily embarrassed.”

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Dec. 19, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s floor speech stating “The Senate must put this right. We must rise to the occasion. There is only one outcome that is suited to the paucity of evidence, the failed inquiry, the slapdash case. Only one outcome suited to the fact that the accusations themselves are constitutionally incoherent. Only one outcome that will preserve core precedents rather than smash them into bits in a fit of partisan rage because one party still cannot accept the American people’s choice in 2016. It could not be clearer which outcome would serve the stabilizing, institution-preserving, fever-breaking role for which the United States Senate was created… and which outcome would betray it. The Senate’s duty is clear. The Senate’s duty is clear. When the time comes, we must fulfill it”:

“The partisan, predetermined House impeachment of President Donald Trump puts an indelible stain on this hyper-politicized House of Representatives. The inherent unfairness of a process that continually denied the President of the United States the opportunity to counter manufactured concerns that resulted in chargeless and baseless Articles of Impeachment should be dealt with in an expeditious manner in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must make certain that the President has every opportunity to make the case that he was denied by Democrats in the House, and restore fairness to this process. It is sad that the House abused their power so grotesquely in these proceedings but more importantly, it is destructive to our nation as a whole. The trivialization of impeachment by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House will be mocked throughout history and I share Senator McConnell’s outrage over the diminution of the somber constitutional power of impeachment.”

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Dec. 18, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement recalling that in 1999 then-Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist ruled that in an impeachment trial, “the Senate is not simply a jury, it is a court in this case”:

“The latest big lie being told by the Democrats is that Senators are jurors, they are not.  In the Clinton impeachment in 1999, Chief Justice Rehnquist ruled that Senators are not jurors, stating, ‘the Senate is not simply a jury, it is a court in this case.’  Senators are Constitutional officers sworn to uphold the Constitution and that is their duty. Senators ask questions and are actively engaged in the process on the Senate floor. Their duty is to be active rather than passive listeners and Republican Senators should not be cowed into silence by the false narrative that they are jurors, it is a lie.”

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Dec. 17, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stating “It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People”:

“House Democrats have pursued a false narrative that President Trump abused his office for personal political advantage when in fact he was both pursuing the law and the interests of the United States in seeking to ensure that Ukraine dealt with its long history of corruption when considering military funding for Ukraine. As Trump noted in his letter to Speaker Pelosi, ‘It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People.’

“It is clear that Pelosi and Schiff’s partisan impeachment push is nothing more than a politically motivated effort by Democrats to abuse their own positions of authority for perceived personal political benefit. While this irony might be lost on Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler, it is not lost on the American people, who expect in the least for a crime to be cited in any impeachment, which Democrats have failed to do her. It is time for Speaker Pelosi to end this partisan impeachment travesty before she does any more damage to our nation’s standing in the world and the Constitution. The damage that this historical precedent created by a partisan impeachment without any crimes does to future presidents is incalculable, and Speaker Pelosi should heed President Trump’s call for her to cease and desist from pursuing this tragic blunder before it tarnishes her legacy forever.”

Attachments:

“‘Abuse of power’ and ‘obstruction of Congress’ are not high crimes or misdemeanors, bribery or treason,” By Robert Romano, Dec. 16, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/12/abuse-of-power-and-obstruction-of-congress-are-not-high-crimes-or-misdemeanors-bribery-or-treason/

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Dec. 13, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Georgia legislature to consider proposals to eliminate tax credits for Hollywood in the upcoming session:

“Ending corporate cronyism is something that the left and right can generally agree upon, and corporate tax credits designed to help out of state or country industries are particularly noxious.  The entertainment industry in Hollywood has been particularly aggressive in seeking tax credit incentives from states like Georgia in order to enjoy the lower cost of film making that the Peach state provides.  As part of a broader campaign by Americans for Limited Government to spotlight corporate cronyism, we will be focusing upon the ever-expanding corporate welfare which Hollywood enjoys from the taxpayers of Georgia. It is time for the state legislature to end Hollywood welfare.”

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Dec. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the overwhelming results of the British elections, where the Tories have won a crushing landslide:

“British polling showed that Boris Johnson’s conservative party was barely clinging to hopes for a majority as late as two days ago. Instead the voters gave the Tories an overwhelming mandate to leave the European Union on Britain’s terms. As Democrats in America continue their blind partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump, the British results should scare the heck out of them as the original Brexit vote foreshadowed Trump’s victory. The Tory landslide may be a similar bellwether of 2020 results in the United States. Clearly, pollsters still don’t get the concerns of voters here in America or across the pond.”

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Dec. 12, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the passage of the H.R. 3 drug pricing bill:

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing legislation is so onerous that if it became law it would virtually guarantee that next generation cures for Alzheimer’s, various cancers and other senior-related illnesses would be strangled in their research cradles. Somehow Pelosi believes that by making it cost more money to develop a cure than you can make selling that cure is a good thing. Let me be clear, it is not moral to strip the hope away from people suffering from Alzheimer’s or other prevalent diseases under the guise of cutting drug costs. It is cruel.

“This is not just hyperbole, but a simple fact. Research dollars will not flow toward unprofitable enterprises. Congress itself recognizes this through their orphan drug tax treatments designed to make it profitable to develop medicines for rare diseases, yet Pelosi’s H.R. 3 would make the drugs designed to address illnesses that are most prevalent be subjected to rate caps ensuring that they would be unprofitable. H.R. 3 is almost akin to a vendetta bill against an industry that the Democrats appear to pathologically hate, and should be rejected.”

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