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Here comes impeachment
Excerpt:
I've been asking for guesses about when the first
impeachment resolution will be filed in the House (leave your prediction
here).
To be fair, I’ve already been wrong about one
thing—I predicted that Michele Bachmann would have introduced a resolution
by now (actually, I predicted April 15). So perhaps
I’m just as much of an alarmist as those Republicans who believed that
a
Pelosi-led House would impeach George W. Bush
in 2007. Perhaps! But I don’t think so. In fact, impeachment talk moved
yesterday from Tea Party rallies to at least
one Republican Member of the House, Darrell Issa. And Issa’s not an obscure
backbencher; he’s the ranking Republican on Oversight
and Government Reform, and he also sits on the Judiciary Committee.
The incentives all run to impeachment, as far
as I can tell. The leaders of such an effort would find it easy to cash
in (literally, I mean)
with books and appearances on the conservative
lecture circuit. It’s hard to believe that Rush, Beck and the rest of the
gang wouldn’t
be tripping over each other to wear the crown
of the Host Who Brought Down the socialist gangster president.
And we’ve seen the ability, or I should say the
lack thereof, of rank-and-file GOP pols to stand up to the talk show yakkers.
Besides, it’s not as if a new Republican majority
would have a full agenda of legislative items to pass, and what they did
have
would face an Obama veto (and most likely death
in the Senate at any rate). Against all that is the collective preference
of the
Republican Party not to have a reputation as
a pack of loons, but that doesn’t seem to be much of a constraint in practice.
Of course, also against impeachment is the lack
of a serious offense by the president, but I don’t see that as a major
impediment
—if offering a job to a potential Senate candidate
is an impeachable offense (and see Jonathan Chait if you think it really
is),
then they’ll have no trouble at all coming up
with something.
If Republicans gain control of the House in January, (not at all likely) Obama will be impeached.
I believe every Democratic presiodent will be
impeached until Democrats start to act like men instead of mice.