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Deserving Democracy?
What Do We Deserve in the New Normal?
It was supposed to be Mueller Time, but a self-appointed medical examiner named Sean Hannity has pronounced impeachment dead.
In the administrations of both Bush 43 and Obama, I wondered if we had entered a new normal where impeachment would be just another political tactic. One POTUS from each party stirred up calls for impeachment based on nothing more than policy disagreements.
First Bill Clinton got impeached for lying about a blow job. He was absolutely guilty of the most trivial perjury in the history of the crime. Even if that were not so at the time, the current POTUS tells more lies and more serious lies in any given day than President Blow Job did in eight years.
The Clinton impeachment set the bar for impeachment so low that the demise of news media staying out of sexual hijinks in the White House opened up vast possibilities for undoing election results by impeachment. But while extracurricular sex has been more rule than exception since FDR, Clinton was followed by two presidents who appeared relatively spotless in terms of sexual transgressions.
Although apparently remaining faithful to Laura, Bush 43 had stretched the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) of 2001 until it was thin to the point of transparency. Obama did not fool around on…
