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Beware the Revenge Impeachment
Beware the Revenge Impeachment
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Former Solicitor General and federal judge Kenneth Starr made a simple argument this week on behalf of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense. We are living in the “age of impeachment,” he said on Monday, urging the Senate to acquit Trump and “return to norms” that counsel against using impeachment as a political weapon.
If Trump is removed from office, Starr was suggesting, every future president will be vulnerable, at least if the House of Representatives is controlled by the opposing political party, and if the Senate can be persuaded to go along. A president named Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren might well be exposed to a horrific impeachment battle, simply because of the Trump precedent.
True, it’s bizarre to see this argument coming from Starr, whose 1998 report on President Bill Clinton’s liaisons with his White House aide Monica Lewinsky made its own contribution to altering impeachment “norms.” Nonetheless, his argument is a reasonable. It deserves an answer.
ME: We should rip the next Dem president 500 new assholes, one a day, just as a lesson. Assuming there ever is another one.
Beware the Revenge Impeachment
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Former Solicitor General and federal judge Kenneth Starr made a simple argument this week on behalf of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense. We are living in the “age of impeachment,” he said on Monday, urging the Senate to acquit Trump and “return to norms” that counsel against using impeachment as a political weapon.
If Trump is removed from office, Starr was suggesting, every future president will be vulnerable, at least if the House of Representatives is controlled by the opposing political party, and if the Senate can be persuaded to go along. A president named Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren might well be exposed to a horrific impeachment battle, simply because of the Trump precedent.
True, it’s bizarre to see this argument coming from Starr, whose 1998 report on President Bill Clinton’s liaisons with his White House aide Monica Lewinsky made its own contribution to altering impeachment “norms.” Nonetheless, his argument is a reasonable. It deserves an answer.
ME: We should rip the next Dem president 500 new assholes, one a day, just as a lesson. Assuming there ever is another one.