The Folly of Impeachment - by David Frum

[DonViejo]

by David Frum May 18, 2013 10:08 AM EDT

So now it's Brit Hume who is joining the editors of National Review in warning against impeachment - at least for now. National Review warns against "talking loosely" of impeachment and adds "the overwhelming likelihood at this point is that Barack Obama will leave office on January 20, 2017." (My italics.)

Hume's phrase was that talk of impeachment is "way premature." The warnings are prudent and right. Yet the more I hear these warnings, the less reassured I feel. What is being heard by Hume and the editors of National Review that makes their warnings necessary in the first place?

And is it possible that the warning themselves may incite the very emotions they are intended to avert? I'm reminded here of Louisa May Alcott's story about the children who put beans up their noses.

"Once there was a poor woman who had three or four little children, and she used to lock them up in her room when she went out to work, to keep them safe. One day when she was going away she said, 'Now, my dears, don't let baby fall out of window, don't play with the matches, and don't put beans up your noses.' Now the children had never dreamed of doing that last thing, but she put it into their heads, and the minute she was gone, they ran and stuffed their naughty little noses full of beans, just to see how it felt, and she found them all crying when she came home."

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/18/the-folly-of-impeachment.html

[Cal33]

1. The present-day GOP leadership cheapen and make dirty whatever they touch. They

have nothing to impeach Obama with, so they are inventing something.

The Democrats, on the other hand, had every reason -- in fact, it was their
duty -- to impeach the likes of Bush, Cheney & Co. Examples: (1) for lying
our nation into a war for profit against Iraq, and (2) for outing a secret
agent for the sake of personal revenge. These are only two examples, and
both of them are acts of treason. But the Democrats made it a point to
put impeachment "off the table."

There is so much evil on the part of the Right-Wingers, and stupidity on the
parts of both Democrats. and Republicans.

[davidpdx]

2. I've never heard that story

But I believe that the Republicans were foaming at the mouth to impeach Obama once they knew he was going to get reelected. Their plan of "denying him a second term" was a miserable failure. Gaining control of the Senate didn't happen, in fact they lost seats. I think the only thing that is holding them back is they know there is no f-ing way they will convince 22 Democrats to vote for impeachment. I mean we know Baucus and maybe Pryor would jump at the chance to, but that would leave them 20 short.