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Impeachy

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While he was Vice President, Joe Biden committed an impeachable offense, then confessed to it on video in front of an audience.  So why aren’t impeachment hearings being held yet?  What are we waiting for, Christmas?

How do we know it was impeachable?  Because he actually did the thing that President Trump was accused of doing, and subsequently impeached over.

Sure, but that was then, and this is now.  How can you remove someone from office now for something he did before he was elected?

Well, note that Congress is currently in the middle of removing someone from office who is no longer in office.  So it’s not like there’s any requirement for consistency.

Or symmetry.  Ideally, they should have started impeaching President-Elect* Biden before he took office.  Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

But there’s a huge opportunity here that Democrats shouldn’t pass up.  They keep talking about the need to ‘unify’ America.  Clearly both sides can’t have what they want.  The next best thing is to make sure that neither side gets what it wants.  That’s how compromise works.

What better way to seek common ground than with a combined impeachment trial, in which the Senate convicts Trump, Biden, and Harris — sending Trump back to his Florida mansion, Biden back to his Connecticut basement, and Harris back to… wherever.

(And since Biden claims that his quid pro quo maneuver had Obama’s backing, we could include Obama as a defendant at no extra cost.)

Does it matter that Harris hasn’t even been accused of anything yet?  That no longer seems to be a requirement for impeachment, in much the same way that actually having done something to promote peace no longer seems to be a requirement for the Nobel Peace Prize.  Anyway, as Democrats keep reminding us, it’s the outcome that matters, and not the process.

Of course, letting Nancy Pelosi into the Oval Office would just exacerbate the problem, since she’s one of the most polarizing figures in all of politics.  So as replacements for Biden and Harris, we could install a couple of people who have consistently demonstrated nearly universal likability, like Matt Damon and Natalie Portman.  Or Morgan Freeman and Sandra Bullock.

I think it’s exactly what King Solomon would recommend.

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