Raising the Bar on Impeachment

I've long maintained that the Clinton impeachment was pure politics, undertaken with only one goal in mind: Raising the bar so high that subsequent Democratic congresses would wither under the wingnut attacks that they were impeaching a Rethug president only to "get even" for them impeaching Clinton.

When you think about it, it's the only scenario that makes sense. They knew, after laying the groundwork by, for example, the excision of upwards of 90,000 black voters from the rolls in Florida and speeding up the privatization of the voting process by awarding voting machine contracts to Rethug enablers like Diebold, among other nefarious means, that their boy Georgie Porgie would be the next president. They knew that he would ride roughshod over the Constitution, that he would put industry executives in charge of regulating their own industries, that he would do everything he could -- both legally and illegally -- to enrich the already bulging coffers of the capitalist oligarchy.

They also knew that eventually Congress would say "enough" and try to impeach him.

By impeaching Clinton first, they could take the high ground and be able to point fingers at the Dems if they tried impeaching Chimpy. It's just retaliation, they would say. It's politics at its worst. Impeaching Clinton was an insurance policy against the eventuality that the Chimperor would come under the scrutiny of congress.

Sadly, it seems to have worked. Dennis Kucinich is pretty much alone in his crusade. No co-sponsors, no one with his back, no one even mouthing platitudes of vapid support.

I hope it will get "The I Word" out there anyway, and maybe start people thinking about the corruption and graft and greed and incompetence and pure evil that has signified this maladministration.

Impeachment now!