982: Impeachment in haste. @AndrewCMcCarthy, @ThadMcCotter
Image: Impeachment in a horn. Caricatures of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Andrew C McCarthy, @AndrewCMcCarthy, Ball of Collusion; and Thaddeus McCotter, @ThadMcCotter, American Greatness, in re: this isn't a real impeachment because “incitement to an insurrection” is highly problematic. Also a causation issue: what the president said may be reprehensible, but not clearly an incitement. A politicized rush to judgment, and it took them a week even to act on it. When Pelosi thinks the timing is propitious—in months? – she may act on this. Censure? Nah, it's all about preventing him from running again. It’s a naked political exercise. Can impeach Trump [much later]. If it’s an impeachment, treat it that way. Goal to put the Republicans in a pickle? Yes. She wants no hearing or debate on the substance of the allegations; write a single article, and give the GOP a take-it-or-leave-it vote. Bring the country together not by doing a gratuitous impeachment hours before a president will be gone, anyway. Cabinet Secretaries left and leaving.