Once again, the mob turned out to be wrong. The administration released a transcript of the president’s phone call with the Ukrainian head of state, and it says none of the things the news anchors claimed it would. Read it for yourself. It’s online. Try to find the extortion in there. There isn’t any. Trump never even mentions military aid. There’s certainly something unseemly about a president asking a foreign government to investigate an American citizen, but it’s not illegal, and it’s not all that different from three Democratic senators’ writing a letter to Ukraine just last year demanding investigations into Trump.

Now that the call turns out to be nothing like what the media told us it would be, some on the left have started a conspiracy theory that the transcript can’t be real; it must be doctored. These conspiracies aren’t confined to weird corners of the internet. Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff have already questioned the trustworthiness of the transcript, despite the fact that there’s no evidence of wrongdoing. Numerous career national security officials — many not fans of our president — have access to the original call and would have to be in on any conspiracy.

Lots of Democrats, including many of today’s party leaders, stood up when Bill Clinton was impeached to give impassioned speeches about the perils of taking away the American people’s choice. Here’s today’s impeachment ringleader, Rep. Jerry Nadler, in 1998:

“The impeachment of a president is an undoing of a national election. And one of the reasons we all feel so angry about what they are doing is that they are ripping asunder our votes. They are telling us that our votes don’t count.”

And here’s Nancy Pelosi in 1998 on the hatred behind the Clinton impeachment push:

“Today, the Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness but impeaching him with a vengeance … We are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred of President Clinton. And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.”

Sadly, Nadler and Pelosi were right in 1998. Republicans should not have impeached Clinton, and they paid the price. Democrats today hate Trump. It’s not about justice or truth. What they care about is winning the 2020 presidential election. Democratic leaders have decided that impeaching Trump is essential if they’re going to win next year. So they’re staking everything on this bizarre, flimsy scandal that the rest of us can barely understand.

Personal attacks on Trump have proven ineffective. If calling him a racist or a traitor actually worked, Hillary Clinton would be running for reelection right about now. That’s not going to work. If you want to beat Trump, make a case on the issues. He won on the issues. So make a countercase. But the geniuses can’t figure that out.

In the end, the loser in this impeachment nonsense is likely to be Biden, who, you will recall, is the apparent front-runner. He’s supposed to be the safe choice, the guy who’s going to reenergize the Obama coalition and win back the White House. Yet Democrats have now in effect demanded that we spend the next six months talking about Biden and his son’s alleged corruption. That’s what’s at the core of this Ukraine story.

The issues aren’t really complicated. Why in the world would a Ukrainian company pay Hunter Biden $50,000 a month? We still haven’t heard an answer. If we’re talking about Ukraine and impeachment, we’re talking about Biden’s alleged corruption. That can’t help his campaign for president. In fact, it’s likely to tank it. It looks like sabotage, really. They must have gamed this up. Or maybe Democrats have just become so obsessed with destroying Trump that they’re accidentally destroying themselves.

 Broadway Avenue Water Main Replacement Project Open House
October 15 at Howell General Baptist Church

The Evansville Water and Sewer Utility will host a Public Open House on the Broadway Avenue Water Main Replacement Project Tuesday, October 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Howell General Baptist Church, 1520 Delmar Ave. The purpose of the meeting it to explain the project scope and answer questions from the public.

Mailers announcing the project were sent this summer to nearly 700 homes and businesses along the Broadway corridor and surrounding neighborhoods. Door hangers are being distributed starting this week to approximately 300 addresses that will be directly impacted by the work, and invitations will soon be mailed to nearly 700 addresses encouraging residents to attend the Public Open House.

The Broadway Avenue Water Main Replacement project will include the installation of over 11,000 feet of new 6-inch to 12-inch water main pipe along Broadway Avenue from Schutte Road to Red Bank Road, as well as along Frey Road from Broadway Avenue to the end of the public roadway. Related improvements include new valves and 26 fire hydrants throughout the corridor.

BMB, Inc. of Newburgh, Ind., was awarded the construction contract in the amount of $2.7 million. Works is anticipated to begin the week of October 14, 2019. The project is expected to be substantially complete in July 2020.

To learn more about this water main replacement projects as part of the Refresh Evansville Program, visit www.refreshevansville.com/broadway-avenue.