The New York Times’ Peter Baker takes a remarkably balanced view of the President under siege, considering his employer. Here echoed at MSN, Baker admits there is a good chance Trump ends up benefiting from the impeachment attempt, as in fact Bill Clinton did. Hat tip to RealClearWorld for the link.
Baker quotes Newt Gingrich, who was Speaker when Clinton was impeached. As Pelosi appears to intend, Gingrich pushed through an impeachment only to see it defeated in the Senate.
The following election, Republicans lost their House majority and Clinton was reelected. Wouldn’t it be ironic if that pattern was repeated here, with Democrats losing their House majority and Trump reelected?
The schadenfreude would reach near-orgasmic proportions. Picture the giddy glee when your evil enemy, with great ceremony, shoots himself in both feet simultaneously, and must be carried off the field of conflict, a bloody wreck. That’s what the Dems hope for, and the GOP is likely to see.
Speaking of “orgasmic,” the Democrats’ obsession with impeachment under conditions where it will go exactly nowhere, is a sort of political masturbation - self-pleasuring behavior of the sort done in public only by the deranged.
