Lazy Day thoughts

My reading pile doesn't ever seem to get smaller, though I did move the Tom Bianchi picture books to the shelf, so they aren't here making things look worse.  Because this blog is proof that I haven't totally forsaken social media, I can say that I am happy about having, at least for the time being, given up Twitter, and Facebook has been gone for a long time. It isn't that I have found marvelous new ways to occupy myself, though I did make double chocolate chip cookies last week, but I think with only checking the news a few times daily, like morning and afternoon papers, then the evening news in the past, it keeps me current enough for all intents and purposes and I also don't overreact about anything, or even issue tweets that I may regret down the line. This is where I insert my opinion about too many cable news channels running 24/7 so they need to overanalyze Donald Trump's farts just to fill air time. The impeachment inquiry moves forward, and it doesn't look any better now that everything is "public" than it did when things were behind closed doors. Republicans really do need to put party aside and view these actions from a Constitutional perspective, and once they do that, then they need to pass legislation that allows the President to be investigated and charged with criminal acts while in office, as I doubt Jefferson, Hamilton, or any of their peers would think the current AG office is doing right by the American people.

Too bad about the impeachment inquiry

While it certainly can be said that I welcome the end of the Trump administration, it is unfortunate that it may end in impeachment.  Unlike Clinton with an intern or Johnson with his racism, Trump's impeachment inquiry is about determining whether Trump abused his power for political benefit, though the fact that even after Mueller if he chose to involve a foreign power, then he truly does deserve having the whole mess out in the open for the American public to see.  If it is ugly enough, perhaps the Senate will actually impeach and remove him from office, and if it isn't ugly enough, then at least Americans will see what is determined acceptable by Congress.  What really saddens me is that Trump has brought it to this point, because he certainly knew that requesting a foreign investigation into a specific person, who just happened to be the Democratic frontrunner, would echo a bit too close to his request that Russia break into his opponent's email and leak it for the world to see.  Trump knew better and if Congress didn't act, then they might as well have given him a golden ticket to do whatever he wanted.  Impeachment is the ultimate punishment for a public official, and while there are good arguments that it shouldn't have been used on Johnson and Clinton, there isn't a good argument that it was inappropriate to use it with Nixon, and I think history will show the same thing here, that it was a justified response to a President who refused to be constrained by law and the US Constitution.