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Impeachment or an obsolete Constitution?

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The World's Laziest Journalist has speculated during the George W. Bush "lame duck" period about how long it would take the Republicans to find a basis for moving to impeach the (then) President-elect.   Expecting Republicans to let a chance to make their dreams come true pass as a show of good sportsmanship may be a tad overly optimistic.

 

If the Republicans moved at a slow deliberate pace, they could spend all summer besmirching the President, and then make their move in the Fall.   

 

If they were successful, my former classmate (in first and second grade), Joe Biden, would be sworn in and immediately have to contend with rebuilding the Democratic Party brand while (presumably) running his own reelection campaign and competing in the various primary elections in early 2012, while simultaneously conducting the business of day to day politics as usual.

 

If they failed to get Obama impeached, he would then have to fight to improve his image of being a Bush family clone, while raising funds for his own reelection, and contending with the various primary elections, which usually are not a high priority activity for a sitting President.

 

His critics on the Fox Network would be relentless in their unfair and biased condemnation of him for doing what George W. Bush had previously done.   Obviously such heavy-handed punditry would generate some "sympathy backlash," which would benefit Obama, but since most folks are reluctant (especially if they are not of Irish heritage) to assert an unpopular opinion, the majority of the country would be in a mood to treat the President very harshly.  

 

The word temerity (which has the ironical meaning of being "ballsy") would be bandied about recklessly if the Republicans did try to impeach Obama for doing that which George W. Bush had previously done, but that would be countered by the folk axiom that "Nature favors the brave."   Foreigner Rupert Murdock would make damn sure that Americans were continually assaulted by "pro-impeachment" partisan punditry.

 

Democrats who feared being tainted by an association with a President facing both reelection and immanent impeachment, would get very tired of hearing Fox talking heads tell the joke in which the Lone Ranger says to Tonto:   "Look at all those Indians, Tonto, we're in a very untenable strategic position!"   (or words to that effect.)

 

Will Uncle Rushbo (will both he and Mike Malloy read this column?) be reluctant to gush about the vulnerability of Obama for impeachment proceedings or will he perceive it as an opportunity to be a leader of the de facto lynch mob?

 

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