The do-nothing Democrats in the U.S. House are so preoccupied with their attempted coup against President Trump that they are threatening the military.

That’s right. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Inhofe issued a somber warning about how the “impeachment inquiry” in the House and the possibility of a real impeachment could jeopardize military funding scheduled to expire later this year.

The House Democrats – including Rep. Kendra Horn, D-Oklahoma – are blocking every action by Trump because they don’t want to give him any legislative victory. And they don’t care how that might negatively impact the nation.

In a floor speech this month, Inhofe said time is running short for negotiators to reach a deal on the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. Inhofe blasted the House impeachment inquiry, arguing Democrats are placing partisan aims over national security.

“It concerns me to see them prioritizing their misguided attempts to undo the results of the 2016 election through impeachment instead of taking care of our troops with the NDAA,” Inhofe said. “If we can’t get our defense authorizations free [from] the partisan gridlock, what kind of a message does that send Americans who rely on our troops for protection.”

A threat to military fund by the Democrats sends the wrong message to our allies – and our enemies – abroad. It damages our national security.

“Our adversaries, for them, they enjoy this dysfunction. That’s what they want,” Inhofe said. “They want defense funding mired in partisan debate. They don’t want us to catch up.”

Should the House Democrat succeed with impeachment, Trump would go to trial in the Senate and be acquitted because it takes a two-thirds vote to oust a sitting president. Twenty Republican senators would have to vote against him and that won’t happen. But the Senate would have to stop work on the military to clean up the impeachment mess. Inhofe proposed a solution but the Democrats – who mostly despise the military – are blocking that, too.

The Democrats’ impeachment hoax is totally partisan and counterproductive. And it could damage our national security.