Huffington Magazine Issue 64-65 | Page 10

Enter LOOKING FORWARD IN ANGST JASON LINKINS HUFFINGTON 09.01-08.13 WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES IMPEACHMENT FANTASIES FILL OUT THE DULL LAST DAYS OF AUGUST DLE HANDS are the devil’s playground, especially during these dog days of summer where the “news” is supposedly “slow.” And so it really shouldn’t be all that surprising that the hot I new thing among the people who have twiddled their thumbs nearly to death is a fresh load of pipinghot blather over maybe, you know, impeaching President Barack Obama. And I have to admit, what the idea lacks in merit, it more than makes up for in being sort of exciting, in the way that daft people launching homemade flying ma- President Obama answers national security queries in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 9.