Ruth Marcus Attacks GOP for ‘Shameful Misuse of the Impeachment Power’

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MARCUS: “This is — I am harsher about this impeachment inquiry. You sort of make it sound like no harm, no foul, let them go ahead with their inquiry. This is a shameful misuse of the impeachment power and the impeachment process. Michael Gerhardt was on this program just the other night, talking about how there had never been a formal impeachment inquiry in American history in the absence of credible evidence of wrongdoing. So, we are looking, as you said, for — it’s a hunt for high crimes and misdemeanors without evidence to do it. And I think it threatened, because once you get this official ball rolling, then how do you stop from giving in to the demands for a vote for articles of impeachment? And then you put the 18 or so Republicans who are in Biden — districts that Biden won against Trump in a terrible position. They’re either going to invite — depending on the timing, they’re going to invite their base to primary them if they don’t vote for it, or they’re going to have their general electorate mad at them when they’re trying to get re-elected. And so this does not — this — the only smart politics of this are to assuage Trump and to assuage the base. But it’s not to protect your majority."

(via NewsBusters)