A Rock of Stability in Our Troubled Era
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I speak, of course, of The New York Times, which remains unwavering in its commitment to bothsiderism.
But it is a truism of the contemporary Congress that once one party does something the other sees as a breach, the aggrieved party will return fire once it gets the chance — and perhaps even take things up a notch. Tit for tat is the coin of the congressional realm.
That was evident when House Democrats twice impeached Mr. Trump despite furious G.O.P. objections that Republicans would move to return the favor at their first opportunity after regaining control of the House. And they have.
Dispassionate experts agree!
Lawmakers across Capitol Hill saw this coming.
“I said two years ago, when we had not one but two impeachments, that once we go down this path it incentivizes the other side to do the same thing,” said Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader.
“Impeachment ought to be rare,” he said, adding, “This is not good for the country.”
When it comes to censure resolutions, you say “tomayto.”
As for censures, Speaker Kevin McCarthy embraced meting out that penalty to Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat and former Intelligence Committee chairman who led the first impeachment prosecution of Mr. Trump.
The censure, brought forward by Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, a strong supporter of Mr. Trump, accused Mr. Schiff of lying and spreading distortions in his investigation of the president. Some Republicans were clearly uncomfortable with the idea of censuring Mr. Schiff, and the move failed on its first attempt. But after Ms. Luna dropped a proposed $16 million fine from her resolution, Republicans pushed through the censure on a party-line vote in June.
I say “tomahto.”
Since that censure, multiple other resolutions have been introduced, including a Republican one to censure Representative Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who was the chairman of the special committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Another Republican-sponsored effort targets Representative Pramila Jayapal, Democrat of Washington, for referring to Israel as a “racist state” — a statement she has withdrawn.
A newly introduced Democratic censure resolution takes aim at Ms. Greene for “hateful rhetoric” and a series of other acts, including showing sexually explicit photos of Hunter Biden, the president’s son, at a recent hearing examining his business ventures…
Democrats are also pressing to censure Representative George Santos, Republican of New York, for blatantly lying to voters about his life story.
“Let’s call the whole thing off,” says noted bipartisan Senator with no stake in the issue.
“I just think we need to try to work out our political differences and not use tools like impeachment to try to redress our grievances,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas. “I don’t think it is a healthy sign for us to be resorting to the ultimate weapon.”
In conclusion: The Liberal Media!
NB: It would be churlish to note that almost all of the censure resolutions named in the story enjoy virtually no support — and that, perhaps, a more informative approach would not compare a list of currently proposed censure resolutions to the most recent ones that passed the House.
