Impeaching Donald

I have been watching cable and nightly news channels religiously and reading right- and left-wing online news sources and have to tell you that even wistfully thinking about impeaching Trump is nothing but a fleeting daydream. As the famous, or infamous if you will, Louisiana governor Edwin Washington Edwards once declared, “. . . the only way I could lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.” And that's about the only way, metaphorically speaking, The Donald would be impeached since Republicans who occupy Washington have closed their eyes and ears to his increasingly outrageous actions and refused to take any of them seriously.

So, unless Trump commits an Edwin Edwards-style peccadillo that hits the news media like a Category 5 hurricane, impeachment is not a serious possibility, no matter how awful you might think Trump and his actions are or how loudly the left-leaning pundits howl. We'll just have to wait and see how long the GOP pretends Trump's topsy-turvy world is normal, business as usual, Republican politics. Until then, impeachment is only a very, very faint hope for Democrats.

BTW, here's another incredible quote from that much-indicted and unrepentant rascal, Edwin Edwards, who at that time was running for Louisiana governor against former neo-Nazi and Klan leader David Duke, “Mr. Duke and I do not agree on many issues. But we do have one thing in common: We’re both wizards under the sheets.” And, yes, Edwards won that election.

PS: For those who do not know him, Edwin Washington Edwards, a four-time governor of Louisiana (1972–80, 1984–88, and 1992–96), was sent to federal prison in 2002 after being convicted of a variety of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and fraud charges, including accepting $400,000 from the then-owner of the San Francisco 49ers to secure a riverboat gambling license.