Enter
of the IRS’s management schemes,
so it became hard to finger anyone
for outright villainy. The “Douglas
Shulman visited the White House
157 times” story ended up getting
debunked in rather embarrassing fashion. The evidence that the
White House stood at the helm
of IRS scrutiny never emerged.
Eventually, Obama critics were
left to argue that the president
was secretly a master “bureaucrat
whisperer,” and then that largely
whimpered out as well.
For August’s august impeachment fanatics, however, the lack
of a compelling reason to impeach
isn’t really an obstacle. Take Representative Kerry Bentivolio (RMich.), the dyed-in-the-wool head
case who ended up in the House
of Representatives because he was
willing to be the first and loudest
guy to crawl into the crater left by
former Michigan Rep. Thaddeus
McCotter’s career implosion.
Per Andrew Kaczynski:
“I went back to my office and
I’ve had lawyers come in,” the
congressman continued. “These
are lawyers, PhDs in history,
and I said, ‘Tell me how I can
impeach the president of the
United States.’”
LOOKING FORWARD
IN ANGST
The Michigan congressman
then explained to the audience
that someone couldn’t impeach
the president without evidence.
“Until we have evidence, you’re
going to become a laughingstock if you’ve submitted the
Bored reporters,
gambling that
“impeachment” will
be a fertile search
term, let the stories
leg out, and eventually
we get a nice “trend
piece” triad, which
officially makes
impeachment a Thing.
bill to impeach the president
because number one, you’ve got
to convince the press,” he said.
“There are some people out
there no matter what Obama
does he’s still the greatest president they’ve ever had. That’s
what you’re fighting.”
I was not a fly on the wall of
these important state discussions,
but I am imagining a situation
HUFFINGTON
09.01-08.13