The Impeachment Dilemma

Is doing the right thing the right thing to do if it accomplishes the wrong result? Should Congress impeach Donald Trump if doing so guarantees his election to another four years as President? If Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses, should he not be impeached? Richard Nixon left a smoking gun. Bill Clinton committed indiscretions…

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The Potemkin President

Back in the 18th Century Grigory Potemkin, a minister and lover of Russian Empress Catherine the Great, constructed phony villages populated by phony peasants to impress foreign ambassadors with how Crimea had prospered under Russian rule. As the entourage passed, the villages were disassembled and moved downstream to be viewed by the ambassadors as they passed…

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