Democrats are wasting America's time on impeachment (Opinion)

Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor, is a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and a former campaign adviser to US Sen. Mitch McConnell. He is a partner at RunSwitch Public Relations in Louisville, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.

Let me skip to the end: The Democratic-majority US House of Representatives, in partisan fashion, is all but certain to impeach President Donald Trump. The Republican-majority Senate, in partisan fashion, will almost certainly acquit him. And the net result will be that Democrats will have abused the US Constitution to satisfy political passions instead of approaching impeachment as the solemn act the framers intended.

nullifying the election results. Let's be honest. The Democrats were always going to do this. From the minute we realized on election night that Donald Trump had won, they began fantasizing about nullifying the election results. Indeed, in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, the Democrats' biggest concern was that Trump would not accept the outcome -- a Hillary Clinton win, of course! -- of which they were quite certain.

And as it turns out, it was the Democrats who had no intention of accepting it. How odd that they have again become what they claim to detest about Trump.

has only grown Over the last three years, the desire to impeach Trump among rank-and-file Democrats has only grown with each outrage, real or manufactured. Even as weak as political parties are these days, one thing remains true -- politicians nearly always do what their parties want them to do.

When Republicans took control of Congress, they cut taxes because the members of their party wanted them to. The fantasy for grassroots Democrats -- made possible when the party gained a House majority in the 2018 midterm -- was to impeach the President. Today you can listen to the Democrats on your average cable panel claiming their party cares most about health care and social justice. But that's baloney, as they care principally about one thing -- getting rid of Donald Trump as soon as possible.

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