Krauthammer: ‘Impeachable’ if Obama Actually Prosecutes Climate Skeptics

‘This is really appalling and Orwellian’

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "This is really appalling and Orwellian. We already know this administration has used the instruments of power -- namely the IRS and its capacity to tax and give tax relief -- when it came to organizations that are nonprofit, discriminating against those that were either anti-Obama or conservative or tea party. So, we know that in principle it will do it and has done it. But to do it over climate denial -- and, in fact, you know, the left already has won this argument just on the basis of syntax. Denial is used with the Holocaust. Holocaust is a historical fact; if you deny it, yes, you are doing something extraordinary. Climate change is a projection into the future. The idea that it is the equivalent of, say, consideration of the Holocaust is absurd, but the left has captured the language. So, you, first of all, call them denialers, the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers and then you look to see if the Justice Department could find a way to go after them? As if the objective is to find them guilty of something, i.e., shut them up and to find a statute of some kind like RICO, under which you could do it. I would think if this were ever to happen, it would be an impeachable action."

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