Hiaasen on impeachment: "get off your ass and vote him out"
It was difficult to choose only 4 paragraphs to quote. Worth the read for gems such as "because Trump’s campaign was so comically plagued with amateurs, it’s conceivable that those who cozied up to the Russians were too stupid to know they were breaking the law" and "he’ll survive a Senate trial, and the extravaganza will only feed his crybaby narrative about 'presidential harassment.'”
Forget impeachment — there’s a better way to get Donald Trump out of office
"Trump’s tremulous tweet storms are destined for future psychiatric textbooks, and you could compile a three-hour speech reel of him spouting one lie after another. The folks who support him don’t much care.
Some Democrats who concede that impeachment will probably end in acquittal by the Senate insist it’s still worth the effort. They say the hearings will keep the issue of Trump’s diarrheal dishonesty at the top of the debate, energizing their voter base and fundraising for the 2020 race.
That’s the same strategy tried by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich two decades ago, when he knew the GOP in the Senate didn’t have the votes to remove Bill Clinton. Clinton’s presidency was damaged and distracted by the circus, but he left office with higher popularity ratings than the Republicans that went after him.
Is impeaching Trump is justified under the Constitution? Of course. Duh. He’s the most venal, lawless, infantile boob who ever sat in the Oval Office."
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/carl-hiaasen/article229754509.html?fbclid=IwAR1jfE1B9lLQ29vp1ANGqEUMmPCqAC10nHB2MESsJlCurSA-z5HG-d_IWW8
