The abuse of fact is a fine art in Washington

Impeaching the truth

By Robert Knight

All this talk of Republicans being on the verge of impeaching President Obama is nonsense, stoked by Democrats whipping up their base, and a few wistful conservatives who dream aloud about what, in a sane nation, should actually happen to a lawless president.

With Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, running the U.S. Senate, however, it’s not going to happen. House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, has said this over and over to no good effect other than to provide more ammo for the left. His denials have had roughly the same impact as when Richard Nixon assured us: “I’m not a crook.” It’s never good to repeat something that your opponents want to pin on you.

But now we have to listen to revisionist history on top of all this.

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, impugned the motives of Mr. Boehner for bringing to a floor vote Wednesday a resolution to sue Mr. Obama for usurping powers delegated by the Constitution to Congress. The measure passed on a party-line vote of 225 to 201.

“I ask my colleagues to oppose this resolution for it is, in fact, a veiled attempt for impeachment and it undermines the law that allows a president to do his job,” Mrs. Jackson Lee said, reading from the North Korean Constitution. (Just kidding about that last part).

She claimed, as reported by the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross, that Democrats who were upset over the war in Iraq “did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.”

To do what? Anything he wants, apparently.

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