Impeach: Not a Low Hanging Fruit

The “friends” down at Fox Cable News have had a point. It does happen.

They have implied or inferred directly that the rest of US news media has been in the midst of a feeding frenzy. Pieces of Donald Trump are being carved off (mostly by Trump himself) and being tossed in the water. The desire for more and bigger chunks of the Donald have become so compelling that judgment is becoming warped.

 This is even true of journalists with laudable reputations for objectivity. Those who see Trump’s clumsy attempts at governing as de facto proof of his scurrilous nature became apoplectic as a result of recent events, beginning with the Comey firing.

Take the constant use of the crime Obstruction of Justice. It has been used to describe Trump’s firing of Comey, an action he took which itself violates no law. It is the intent to stop the Russian investigation, they say, that satisfies the scrutiny of Trump, and his intent was just so blatant…maybe too blatant.  

Trump literally admitted it in a TV interview, had his Deputy Press Secretary proclaim it, requested it of the Director of the FBI (on multiple occasions), and bragged about it to the minister of a hostile foreign nation. Can the red meat get any juicier for the frenzied sharks below?

It is fools flesh for the predators. They might as well be chomping into old tires.

It will not be hard for Trump (and his more grounded advisors) to argue that he fired Comey precisely because he wanted a more thorough investigation of the Russians and the exoneration of the Trump presidential campaign. The truth need not apply. Conjecture is just that.

Without physical proof of intent the Republicans will never move a finger toward impeachment for fear of alienating themselves from the Trump faithful.  It has always been reasonably argued that Nixon would never have had to resign or face impeachment if the tapes had not existed.

It won’t matter if Trump continues to trash good people, let slip National secrets, or any other bone-headed actions. As long as he can move a pen across a piece of paper he will remain GOP strong, or so Republican leaders think. But that’s the real danger.

Donald Trump is the Chevy Vega of politicians.  It didn’t matter that the Vega, introduced in 1970, had a host of bad technical reviews, blew rings like popcorn from its ill-conceived aluminum engine, and virtually rusted on the showroom floor.  It was successfully marketed as the answer to a gas starved nation.  Like Trump, what the Vega buyers got should have been a surprise to none of them. The Vega lasted eight years (1970-1977) before the Nation finally figured it out.

We can’t wait eight years, or even four to address the problem.

It is possible that the complexities of Trump’s business world, with all the illicit transactions common among people of Trump’s breed, will surface and have him undone. However, the transactions by themselves would take years to confirm his participation in illegal activity.  You would need people to turn on him and testify. Possible, but again it is no low hanging fruit.

The best approach is to begin to speak to the obvious. Trump’s mental capacity to govern needs to part of the public debate (see this blog at http://pennyfound.blogspot.com/2017/05/underneath-cracks.html ).  If he continues to decline, evidenced by paranoid behavior, increasingly erratic communications, and further isolation then pressing Mike Pence, his chief of staff, and Congress to take action under Article 25 Section 4 of the Constitution is in order.

The next best result is to install a Democrat majority in both the House and the Senate in 2018 to neutralize the Executive Branch, which is about to snap in the unsuppressed wind that is Donald Trump.

Even the owners of Chevy Vegas got rid of them when they became obviously unsafe to drive. The Constitutionally empowered leaders of this Nation should do no less.