{"id":12225,"date":"2020-03-03T11:18:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12225"},"modified":"2020-03-03T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T19:18:31","slug":"new-impeachment-rules-would-snare-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/new-impeachment-rules-would-snare-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"New Impeachment Rules Would Snare Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barack Obama\u2019s eight-year tenure was detrimental to the United States, but like most of his nonbelievers, I harbor no animosity for his person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few critics that I know advocated that Obama be impeached, much less removed from office, before his reelection bid\u2014even amid his worst scandals and dangerous policies. But we are now in a new age, whose protocols might have made it impossible for the Obama Administration to have finished two terms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, his administration ran some 2,000 guns to Mexican cartels in some hare-brained scheme to monitor violence spilling into the United States. Under the new customs, he should have been impeached for instructing Attorney General Eric Holder to refuse to testify to Congress about Fast and Furious, or at least for not handing over subpoenaed documents. Imagine a Trump gun-walking scheme in Mexico.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was bad enough that Holder was the first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress, well aside from the embarrassment of his unhinged outbursts about \u201cmy people\u201d (hint<em>:&nbsp;<\/em>his \u201cmy\u201d did<em>&nbsp;not&nbsp;<\/em>mean Americans of&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;<\/em>races and creeds). We all remember Holder\u2019s lunatic dismissals of his own country as \u201ca nation of cowards.\u201d (Imagine Bill Barr referring to \u201cmy people\u201d or calling Americans cowards)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/03\/01\/new-impeachment-rules-would-snare-obama\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Barack Obama\u2019s eight-year tenure was detrimental to the United States, but like most of his nonbelievers, I harbor no animosity for his person. Few critics that I know advocated that Obama be impeached, much less removed from office, before his reelection bid\u2014even amid his worst scandals and dangerous policies. 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