>>As Lindsay Graham, in an isolated fit of lucidity, observed: They might just as well go on to impeach George Washington for the “crime” of owning a slave. To be more practical, the Democrats could certainly, on the same principle they are using for their impeachment of a former President, go after George W. Bush—which they would never do, because he was never their opponent—or Richard Nixon, whose resignation cheated them of the opportunity to impeach and remove him.
As absurd as this whole affair has already become, there are a few things to be learned from it. The most obvious lesson is something everyone should have already known, namely, that Mitch McConnell is a willing tool of whatever forces are in control. He might, in order to hold onto an office, pretend to be a loyal member of his party, but that is just one of the games he has played his entire life.....
.....Pope Formosus, who in his five year pontificate had had himself unpopular, died in 896. His successor, who only lasted 25 days, was replaced by Stephen VI, a tool of the Pope’s enemy Count Guido of Spoleto. Stephen had Formosus disinterred, put on trial, and condemned. His acts were annulled, ordinations declared invalid, vestments stripped off, and the three fingers used in the papal blessing cut off, and the body was thrown into the Tiber.
We should give Count Guido and his flunkeys the credit of a gaudy exultation in their victory. The Democrats and Republicans will have to content themselves with a drabber form of damnatio memoriae.
The Ninth Century was also an age of revenge, and Formosus’ mistreatment was avenged by his partisans who strangled Stephen a few months after the “Cadaver Synod.” All Mitch McConnell has to face are a few unkind words from Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson.
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