re: #174 Targetpractice

Do you think Republicans really wanted to impeach Nixon? Of course not, he was their guy who’d just won in a “landslide” two years prior. They were fully prepared to go to bat for him…until the stench of his presidency became so great through the constant pounding of impeachment hearings that to follow him off that cliff would have meant consignment to the political wilderness for a generation or longer. The Dems had backed them into a corner and made it clear they would impeach, the only question for the Repubs was would they protect their president or their party.

Now here we are, in the same position, only now it’s the Dems who are scared of their own shadows. There’s a thoroughly unpopular president, a damning list of crimes, and yet they feel pressured to do nothing because that’s the “safer” course. And hey, painting Trump as a corrupt bastard very well may be that, it might sway enough people to win the election next year. But it could also turn into a major liability, turned into our own “Benghazi!” that makes him look less like a crook and more like the victim of a partisan campaign. I personally look forward to the squirming and murmuring from our frontrunner Joe when he’s asked aloud on live TV if he feels Donny deserves to be impeached.

You can’t really compare that Republican party to today’s. That party helped create the EPA.