Re: Impeachment Fever

Catch it!

"trudogg" <trudogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[...the list seems to grow longer on a daily basis of things the
Republicans in Washington have screwed up. The lies, the incompetence,
the base sadism and wholesale refutation of many things American. I'm
glad that my dad didn't live to see this...]


M.J. Rosenberg argues that impeachment should not be off the table:

http://tinyurl.com/2khlmk

The Constitutional remedy of impeachment is no longer what it once
was. For better or worse, the Republicans changed it, for all time,
when they impeached Clinton over, essentially, nothing.

And Clinton changed it as well. Impeachment not only did not end
his Presidency; it did not hurt his standing with the public. His
numbers stayed high, even improved some, and he left office on
schedule, a very popular President.

In other words, impeachment is no longer the political nuclear
bomb it once was, especially if one knows in advance that conviction
and removal from office is unlikely to occur.

Accordingly, impeachment proceedings are essentially the best
means of getting information to the public which is otherwise
unavailable.

Impeachment should become a routine tool for getting public attention
whenever we disagree with a president of the opposite party? This
might be the worst argument in favor of impeachment of all time.

Can we all please get a grip here? Remember: revenge is a dish best
served cold.

-Kevin Drum


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