By Sophie O’Hara | January 23, 2020

You know the old saying that history tends to repeat itself?

Well, when it comes to the Democrat party, their history of playing dirty with GOP leaders had repeated itself many times over.

The U.S. has had a total of six Republican presidents since President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961:

• Richard Nixon
• Gerald Ford
• Ronald Reagan
• George H. W. Bush
• George W. Bush
• Donald Trump

And Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment against every one of them, with the exception of Gerald Ford.

The cases of impeachment against Nixon and Trump are the largest and most well-known, but Democrats tried and failed to take down Reagan, H.W. Bush and W. Bush with this process.

In Reagan’s case, Democrats tried to impeach him twice, citing “abuse of power” in his invasion of Grenada and his actions in the Iran-contra scandal.

President Ronald Reagan was threatened with impeachment twice. Eight House members introduced a resolution to impeach him in 1983 over his invasion of Grenada, which was referred to committee and never acted on. Four years later, Representative Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas introduced six articles of impeachment stemming from the Iran-contra scandal. The White House feared impeachment was a real danger, but Democratic congressional leaders decided not to proceed to avoid a divisive fight. [NY Times]

Gee, doesn’t that sound familiar…

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Also in the cases of both George Bush Sr and Jr, Democrats filed articles of impeachment against both for their actions in the Persian Gulf and Iraqi wars.

The same Mr. Gonzalez introduced the impeachment resolution against Mr. Bush on Jan. 16, 1991, as the Persian Gulf war opened, then proposed a second one a month later. Neither was acted on.

Mr. Clinton, like Johnson and Nixon before him, was targeted for impeachment more than once. Eighteen House members offered a resolution calling for an inquiry in 1997, a year before the independent counsel Ken Starr filed his report leading to Mr. Clinton’s impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up an affair with a former White House intern.

President George W. Bush faced impeachment efforts by backbench Democrats over the invasion of Iraq on what turned out to be false reports that Baghdad had unconventional weapons. By Mr. Bush’s last year in office, one Democratic opponent had collected so many complaints that he submitted 35 articles of impeachment, including for failing to adequately respond to Hurricane Katrina; they were sent to committee and not acted on. [NY Times]

Democrats can try and spin this any way they want, but the facts don’t lie: they’ve tried to take down 5 out of 6 of our last GOP presidents, mostly citing “abuse of power.”

The Democrat party has used the powerful process of impeachment as a way to eliminate their Republican opponents, filing so many articles against “this action and that action” that they’ve practically made the entire thing a joke.

The process of impeaching a sitting president is an incredibly serious and grave matter, but the Democrats have used it as a means to undermine American voters and gain power for the past six decades.

What’s going to happen when impeachment is a necessary action and not a political tool?

This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.

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