NYT Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker Bemoans How Cheap REPUBLICANS Have Made Impeachment

This is a few days old but it's worth considering because it's always nice to be reminded that Democrats don't seem to be capable of thinking through the long-range implications and possible outcomes of their actions. In some ways, this makes sense, because if a Democrat sat down and considered the possible downstream effects of their preferred methods of making things better for themselves or one of their favorite groups at the moment ... well, they probably wouldn't be Democrats anymore. This habit of theirs, assuming that they can do whatever they want and there will never be consequences, has a nasty habit of coming back to bite them in the butt later but they never seem to learn from their mistakes. Like, remember the time that then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid used the 'nuclear option' and ditched the filibuster for all presidential appointments other than the Supreme Court? He was warned that this would end up badly for his party in the long run, but he went ahead with his plan anyway and now look where we are.

In a similar vein, Democrats seem to only now be stumbling onto the idea that impeachment of officeholders seems, somehow, to have been cheapened and to be maybe being used as more of a political tactic... but they have no idea how this could have happened! It's those big bad Republicans acting up again!

As Republicans pursue Biden and his team, impeachment, once the most serious check on corruption and abuse of power developed by the founders, now looks in danger of becoming a constitutional dead letter, just another weapon in today’s bitter partisan wars https://t.co/iHg3k0r0zk
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 2, 2024

It's a real Captain Louis Renault moment for Peter Baker, who as chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times we'd think would know better than to be shocked, shocked, to find impeachments going on here ... but apparently not. Or at least he's not willing to admit the likely reason that impeachments have now been guaranteed to become incredibly frequent in our politics going forward; it's not like the open and vocal movement to find any reason at all whatsoever to impeach Donald Trump started literally the day he was sworn into office, if not before.

Weird how that happened just all of a sudden, huh?

Nice hacktivism though.
— Ultra Grateful Calvin 🇺🇸🐶🏒 🎶 (@shoveitjack) February 2, 2024

What’s good for the goose…
— BH (@bradyjholt) February 3, 2024

To some degree, we all likely yearn for a time before a lot of these systems had been warped and misused until they became what they are today, a time that we can look back on as having been more staid and serious. But by and large, it isn't Conservatives who got us to where we are today by trying to game the system for our own benefit in the moment... that's the game of the Liberals and the Democrats. The only reason that the Democrats and their willing abettors in the mainstream press corps are mad now is that they're finding out, once again, that more and more Republicans will play by the ground rules that have been set down even if they may not necessarily like those ground rules. But the Democrats have made their bed... and now they get to sleep in it.

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