Self-impeachable

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville has been saying for a long time now (perhaps two years) that for the nasty guy and his minions malice is the agenda. I add there is a reason for that. Malice – violence – is the most effective way to enforce a social hierarchy.

McEwan is now stepping it up a notch. She now rates the nasty guy as bloodthirsty. He wants violence at the southern border, through mass shootings, at abortion clinics, in minority religion houses of worship, and towards minority people. He also wants a war with his name on it.

Just yesterday in a rally in Panama City, FL the nasty guy indirectly called for violence against refugees on the border, against Hillary Clinton, and against Democrats for their immigration agenda and their desire to have babies killed by abortion. McEwan wrote:

If Democratic leadership cannot find any other reason to impeach this president, despite the preponderance of compelling rationales, perhaps they will consider the urgency of doing anything and everything to remove this man from office, before even more people end up dead.

Speaking of impeachment…

More than 600 former federal prosecutors signed a statement saying that even the redacted Mueller Report has enough evidence to charge the nasty guy with multiple felonies for obstruction of justice, who would be indicted if he wasn’t president (a rule created by Nixon).

Melissa McEwan concludes:

This statement make plain the crisis we face as a nation: If a president with contempt for the law is above the law, then there will never be any consequences for his lawbreaking, and our democracy is lost.

House Democrats must initiate impeachment proceedings immediately. The rule of law must matter.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has started issuing subpoenas for the full, unredacted Mueller Report (hey, Jerry, 600 prosecutors say the redacted version has enough info for impeachment).

In response the Justice Department and the nasty guy has declared that Nadler is doing an illegal overreach and now all Mueller Report info is under executive privilege.

So, yeah, your everyday normal constitutional crisis.



Back in January, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood up to the nasty guy I thought she was the right woman for the job. Now, with her unwillingness to hold impeachment hearings, I have my doubts.

Recently she said some strange things. First:

Trump is goading us to impeach him. That's what he's doing. Every single day, he's just like taunting, taunting, taunting because he knows that it would be very divisive in the country, but he doesn't really care. He just wants to solidify his base.

McEwan says that’s ridiculous.

Trump isn't going full fascist to goad the Democrats and solidify his base; he's going full fascist because that's the objective. He's the centerpiece around which the Republican Party is consolidating its power.

Animating his deplorable base and enraging anyone who still values our democracy and respects the rule of law are byproducts. They aren't the goals.

Besides, his base is already quite solid.

Second, in response to the nasty guy’s declaration of executive privilege, Pelosi said:

The point is that every single day, whether it's obstruction, obstruction, obstruction — obstruction of having people come to the table with facts, ignoring subpoenas ... every single day, the president is making a case — he's becoming self-impeachable, in terms of some of the things that he is doing.

Self-impeachable?

McEwan has a response to that. Self-impeachable isn’t a thing. Does Pelosi mean the nasty guy leaves no choice to impeach? Then say that.

McEwan suspects she means the nasty guy is making himself so vile people won’t vote for him and he’ll “self-impeach” himself out of office. Again, that’s ridiculous. His base loves his authoritarian behavior. And we are unlikely to have free and fair elections “especially if Congress refuses to even try to hold Trump accountable.”

So, Pelosi is looking more like an obstacle than an asset.

A better choice, though she’s in the Senate, would be Elizabeth Warren. She stood in the Senate chamber and called for impeachment. She did it there so that it would be part of the Congressional Record, even though it essentially makes her a target. She also contradicts Rep. Nadler in saying there is enough info in the redacted Mueller Report.