I know that I am not as smart as the talking heads on TV or
the mealy mouth elected representatives who whine and opine whenever a camera
is within ten miles.
But I am growing curious. Curious as to why we are any
better than any Central or South American country that has government overthrows
as regularly as the flow of the tides and the phases of the Moon.
I mean we are continually told that Impeachment of the
President is not a legal thing. That Impeachment is a “political” thing. That
the Founders did not mean legal things when they wrote:
“SECTION. 4.
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United
States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of,
Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
If it be true that Impeachment does not require a violation
of law, then it follows that anytime the majority party in the House of Representative
so desires it can vote to remove the President for no violation other than they
dislike him or her.
That the Senate, with august members who love to talk but
not act, may or may not convict is of no importance. The damage is done just as
damage is done when a revolution fails in those countries we scorn because they
are not democracies or republics.
Then what are we? We are hypocrites. Pure flat and simple.
Own it.
