The Impeachment Fiasco

Everybody’s running ‘round talking about Impeaching this one, impeaching that one…
Yet very little comes of it.

In fact, I haven’t heard of one Impeachment effort that seems to be going anywhere.
Why?, I might inquire.

And I think I know the answer.
The American government is not easy to fix.
We don’t have the powers that say a Parliamentary system has where they can show a lack of confidence in a government and demand a new vote.

The only resolution we have is Impeachment.

And for one reason or another, the very idea of Impeachment seems to shake this government to its very foundations—unless of course you are the subject of it and your name is Clinton.

For reasons both known and unknown, the veryidea of Impeachment seems to suck the oxygen out of the air.

It means first casting your lot with this seemingly unsavory idea and then hearings after hearings….the iron maiden and the rack. Remember Watergate?

Well, if we are to put up this awful gang of charlatans and incompetents, it might even be worse. We might even probe into what really happened on 9/11 which would undoubtedly throw the whole government into disorder and entropy. And who can afford entropy…unless that is you are a string theorist.

Although it seems that the adjectives surrounding Impeachment are so vile, so awesomely troubling that few have gotten behind them. Ask anyone in government what specifically does Impeachment entail, and most will go, “….sure, but argh, ah, well, (in hushed tones), it will wreck havoc and destruction on our poor system…hmmm!

It may be all those things, but it didn’t stop those who claimed the moral high ground (yuke, yuke) from Impeaching Bill Clinton, probably the best and most intelligent president since Roosevelt…

So, it can’t be all that bad or that dislocating or that dangerous to our democracy.

In fact, it might even constitute a breath of fresh air.

Let’s flip back for a sec, Ford exonerated Nixon because he said he wanted to spare the country the need to go through such a process which could according to those who know ‘tear us asunder.”

But there are provisions that constitute Impeachment referred to as “high crimes and misdemeanors.” If the instigation of a phony war does not constitute high crimes and misdemeanors what precisely does? It’s surely a heck of a lot worse than sexual relations with an intern if you need a standard for comparison.

And yet we still go on like the Mad Hatter shaking our heads and trying to look as if we know what’s really going on and nothing happens.

If nothing else, this certainly qualifies as spectacle.

Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon