Posted: 12/8/2013 3:30:39 AM EDT
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Impeachment Lessons
The Nineties taught us it’s not guilt that matters; it’s political will. By Andrew C. McCarthy Well whaddya know: The topic of impeachment reared its head at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Jonathan Strong’s report here at NRO noted the wincing consternation of GOP-leadership aides at utterances of the “i-word” during the testimony of prominent legal experts. For the Republican establishment, it seems, history begins and ends in the 1990s: No matter how times have perilously changed, any talk of shutdowns or impeachment is bad, bad, bad. Yes, the Obama “uber-presidency,” as left-of-center law professor Jonathan Turley called it, has enveloped the nation in what he conceded is “the most serious constitutional crisis . . . of my lifetime,” but GOP strategists would just as soon have us chattering about immigration “reform” and bravely balancing the federal budget by, oh, around 2040. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365742/impeachment-lessons-andrew-c-mccarthy |
| Yeah. Obungo is the symptom, not the disease. The disease is a stupid electorate. The cure is mass starvation brought about by a collapse of the system that keeps thwarting darwin at every turn, or a violent revolution. No comment as to weather or not the nation would survive any such cure. |