Best Pat Buchanan column in years, and perfectly-timed, to boot: Impeachment is in the last analysis a political act. The impeachment process against [Richard Nixon] was a coup d’etat by liberal enemies who, though repudiated and routed by the electorate in 1972, still retained the institutional power to break him and destroy his presidency. And, undeniably, he gave them the tools. In the case of Nixon, political enemies controlled both houses of the Congress. Washington was a hostile city. Though he had swept 49 states, Nixon lost D.C. 3-to-1. The bureaucracy built up in the New Deal and Great Society was deep-dyed Democratic. Most crucially, the Big Media whose liberal bias had been exposed by Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew were hell-bent on revenge. All three power centers – the bureaucracy, Congress, the Big Media – worked in harness to bring Nixon down. No such powerful and hostile coalition exists today with [Barack Obama]. In 2008, Obama carried D.C. 24-to-1 over John McCain. The While House Correspondents Association has at times behaved like an Obama super PAC. Liberal Democrats dominate the bureaucracy and control the Senate. Any Republican attempt at impeachment would go up against a stacked deck.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:36:16 +0000
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