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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The Impeachment Rhetoric?

The Absurd Impeachment Feedback Loop (John Avlon) from the Daily Beast 
"... just because you’re a few beers short of a six-pack doesn’t mean you’re not somebody’s constituent - and so a small but determined band of dim-witted congressmen and conservative racketeers keep ratcheting up the impeachment rhetoric as a way of agitating the base ahead of the typically low-turnout, high-intensity, mid-term elections."
I actually disagree with Avlon and others who poo-poo the impeachment talk.  The forces moving this issue forward will move decisively on it after the Fall elections.  Pundits keep underestimating how beholden the GOP is right now to their far-right fringe (exactly the people Avlon is dismissing here).  Look for the pressure to really come if the Republicans take the Senate.  If for no other reason, this will happen because GOP lawmakers are doing nothing ... and have no plans to do anything of substance either now or in the near future.  What Dems routinely miss is that the GOP base is in a white hot fury right now with their own
politicians and that those lawmakers feel tremendous pressure to please that base.  More moderate and more "in reality" Republicans are the ones with the least influence either on Capitol Hill and out in the country.

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