I can’t help myself:
Ken Starr, a member of Trump’s legal team who served as the independent counsel investigating former President Bill Clinton, lamented that the U.S. is now in the “age of impeachment.”
“In this particular juncture in America’s history, the Senate is being called to sit as the high court of impeachment all too frequently,” Starr said. “Indeed, we are living in what I think can aptly be described as the ‘age of impeachment.'”
“How did we get here, with presidential impeachment invoked frequently in its inherently destabilizing as well as acrimonious way?” he asked.
Starr said that “like war, impeachment is hell, or at least presidential impeachment is hell.” [NBC News]
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha …
There, I feel much better. What are we seeing here? The GOP is a party that’s frantically attempting to preserve its claim on plausibility. The Democratic Party, in the person of President Obama, represents the rung for which the GOP is desperately stretching; Starr, by lamenting how impeachment has become an everyday occurrence, seeks to deflect attention from the behaviors of President Trump, and by implication the large and enthusiastically loyal base which supports him, and to the fact that now we’re impeaching Presidents every 20 years, give or take.
As if it’s nothing more than a political stunt.
Sadly for Mr. Starr’s intellectual reputation, this doesn’t work. Nixon lost nearly all of his backing once the tapes came out and his activities were well known. Clinton never did lose his backing, because Starr turned up a fib about … a blowjob. Neither the fib nor the blowjob should have happened, but they also didn’t impress the public as a high crime.
And now we have Trump, who has indulged in so many transgressions against both tradition and law that it’s hard to know where to begin. From obstruction of Mueller’s investigations to criminally sloppy management of classified information to emoluments to the shockingly immoral debacle on the southern border right to today’s Ukraine scandal, President Trump has been an embarrassment to the United States in the eyes of anyone paying attention, inside or out. Starr won’t have an eye blackened – his entire reputation will be burned to a crisp.
That said, will Starr’s desperate diversion work? I suspect so, unless explicitly countered by the Democrats – and even then, the Fox News audience will never see the counter, the debate, and Starr’s embarrassment. Fox News will never show it.
So this is just another bit of meat, fed to the base, in hopes that it’ll keep them fired up and not thinking, and perhaps ensnare an independent or two, because most of them are not political and not paying attention. Starr should be ashamed.
This impeachment is happening for a legitimate reason, not because of some political vendetta. I will now look pointedly at Mr. Starr.
