Every week members of the Watcher’s Council weigh on a single question. This week’s forum is here.
The question considered this week is whether there’s a case for impeaching the president.
IMO a new Republican Congress would be foolhardy to impeach President Obama. It would be a futile gesture but, then, the Republicans of the 113th Congress specialized in futile gestures.
If a hypothetical 114th Republican Congress is so vexed with President Obama that they must do something, they have plenty of other alternatives for doing so that could be done with a simple majority—a path for which the reckless Pelosi-Reid Congress set the pattern.
If they need to get it out of their systems, they could reduce the president’s travel and/or staff budget to zero. They could also get some administration officials thrown in the clink for perjury. I’d start with the director of the CIA.
