Much has been made of Democrats cheapening the Constitution's impeachment powers, how their crusade against President Donald Trump will ultimately render impeachment the American equivalent of a no-confidence vote in a parliamentary democracy.
The Trump Senate trial is apparently being viewed more like the Bill Clinton impeachment and trial in 1998-99, which boomeranged in Republicans' faces.
Leading the pack in ratings was Fox News, suggesting that many of the 11 million who are interested in Trump's impeachment oppose it.
The stats strongly indicate that the vast majority of Americans consider impeachment to be an ugly spectacle prone to misuse by Congress, not the solemn proceeding Democrats imagine they can use to rivet the public's imagination with their supposed high-flying rhetoric.
Last month, a Quinnipiac poll of registered voters suggested that the more people hear the Democrats make their case for impeachment, the less they support it, with 51% opposing removing Trump from office, the first time since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the impeachment inquiry in late September that a majority opposed the Democrats' primary objective.
For a troupe of congressmen to parade over to the other side of the Capitol into the senators' hallowed surroundings is bad enough under the best circumstances; but for them then to accuse senators of being accomplices to impeachable offenses because they're not fulfilling their responsibilities as impeachment jurors can't help but infuriate members of the upper house.
Deterring a future Tricky Dicky or Slick Willie will be much more difficult as occupants of the highest office in the land realize that the public knows impeachment has become another partisan armament in the political arsenal, not an extraordinary remedy for behavior recognized as destructive to the nation by politicians across ideological and party lines - not the last resort safeguard the Framers designed it to be.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/01/28/democrats-have-ruined-impeachment-but-not-how-you-think/
The Trump Senate trial is apparently being viewed more like the Bill Clinton impeachment and trial in 1998-99, which boomeranged in Republicans' faces.
Leading the pack in ratings was Fox News, suggesting that many of the 11 million who are interested in Trump's impeachment oppose it.
The stats strongly indicate that the vast majority of Americans consider impeachment to be an ugly spectacle prone to misuse by Congress, not the solemn proceeding Democrats imagine they can use to rivet the public's imagination with their supposed high-flying rhetoric.
Last month, a Quinnipiac poll of registered voters suggested that the more people hear the Democrats make their case for impeachment, the less they support it, with 51% opposing removing Trump from office, the first time since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the impeachment inquiry in late September that a majority opposed the Democrats' primary objective.
For a troupe of congressmen to parade over to the other side of the Capitol into the senators' hallowed surroundings is bad enough under the best circumstances; but for them then to accuse senators of being accomplices to impeachable offenses because they're not fulfilling their responsibilities as impeachment jurors can't help but infuriate members of the upper house.
Deterring a future Tricky Dicky or Slick Willie will be much more difficult as occupants of the highest office in the land realize that the public knows impeachment has become another partisan armament in the political arsenal, not an extraordinary remedy for behavior recognized as destructive to the nation by politicians across ideological and party lines - not the last resort safeguard the Framers designed it to be.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/01/28/democrats-have-ruined-impeachment-but-not-how-you-think/
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