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Trump Failure on Health Care Increases Chances of Impeachment

Published 2017-07-20 by Cory Allen Heidelberger

University of Missouri law professor Frank O. Bowman continues to believe that the impeachment of Donald Trump is extremely unlikely. However, he acknowledges that the “humiliation” Republicans are suffering on health care increase the chance that Republican members of Congress could abandon a President who is, as Bowman says, neither a conservative, an evangelical Christian, or even a Republican, but only an opportunist who isn’t providing Republicans with the opportunity he promised:

Instead, for institutional Republicans, he is an accidental messiah, unlooked-for, fundamentally unwelcome, but offering in his tawdry, tweeting persona the prospect of transformational policy victories. “We’re gonna win so much you’re gonna get sick and tired of winning.”

What the healthcare debacle makes clear is that, in addition to his manifold personal deficiencies, Mr. Trump has no talent for crafting policy, jawboning legislative coalitions, or selling hard policy choices to the public.  Instead, his performance throughout this year’s healthcare debate has been vintage bad Trump — uninformed and essentially uninterested in the actual substance of legislation, alternatively blustering, threatening, or fawning, always preening and self-absorbed, wildly inconsistent, and ultimately petulant. In the hard business of governance, he is anything but a “winner” [Frank O. Bowman, “The Republican Health Care Bill & Impeachment,” Impeachable Offenses? 2017.07.18].

Lacking the skills necessary to craft and pass health care policy isn’t an impeachable offense, but it does make it easier to Republicans to boot a Republican President who does something impeachable:

But Trump’s catastrophically inept performance in the healthcare debate may — and I emphasize may — be the first step toward a moment when, if presented with incontrovertible evidence that Mr. Trump has committed acts traditionally viewed as impeachable, Republicans will vote to rid themselves and the country of their accidental messiah [Bowman, 2017.07.18].

If Donald Trump can’t deliver politically for the Republicans who compromised their principles to elect him President, Republicans may rediscover their principles (and the Emoluments Clause) and make Mike Pence President.

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11 Comments

  1. Porter Lansing

    Professor Bowman used the term “institutional Republicans”. What the heck are they? Are they definition two, described below?
    2. a public or private place for the care or confinement of inmates, especially mental patients or other persons with physical or mental disabilities
    Humorous but not a valid description. Let’s turn to a source I don’t often quote. #RedState.
    http://www.redstate.com/diary/anacreon/2015/07/15/institutional-republicans-blame-trumps/

    2017-07-20
  3. leslie

    Stupid f*cking trump:

    “For what appears to be the first time on record, the president said he did not clear the room before allegedly suggesting that then–FBI Director Comey might want to drop the bureau’s probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn:

    TRUMP: No. That was the other thing. I told people to get out of the room. Why would I do that?
    SCHMIDT: Did you actually have a one-on-one with Comey then?
    TRUMP: Not much. Not even that I remember. He was sitting, and I don’t remember even talking to him about any of this stuff. He said I asked people to go. Look, you look at his testimony. His testimony is loaded up with lies, O.K.?
    At this point, Trump’s granddaughter Arabella Kushner came in and told the reporters “Ni hao” upon being instructed by her grandfather to speak in Mandarin. When she left the room, the conversation veered into other subjects and the Times reporters didn’t ask any further on the record questions about the Comey meeting.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/07/robert_mueller_will_love_this_passage_in_trump_s_nyt_interview.html

    this guy is dead meat. his only salvation would be a conclusion that a president can’t be indicted, as his lawyers say (“f*ck you” Kasowitz )

    2017-07-20
  4. grudznick

    Mr. Pence will be so much saner.

    2017-07-20
  5. leslie

    yeah, ole’ radio talk show host pence has got a good grip on reality. His billionaire bosses will like his moldability. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2017/03/20/forbes-2017-billionaires-list-meet-the-richest-people-on-the-planet/#7e660f6e62ff

    The richest people on earth: as the number of billionaires jumped 13% to 2,043 from 1,810 last year, the first time ever that Forbes has pinned down more than 2,000 ten-figure-fortunes. Their total net worth rose by 18% to $7.67 trillion, also a record. The change in the number of billionaires — up 233 since the 2016 list — was the biggest in the 31 years that Forbes has been tracking billionaires globally.

    interesting how rise of billionaires tracks the rise of the melting Arctic sea ice extent over a similar time, huh grudz? http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/

    Now Al Gore and HRC are definitely saner than most. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdJlzuaJ6k HRC live stream hour long interview: Russians had to have been guided in their hack by Americans. http://dailyreadlist.com/article/should-russian-hacks-be-kept-from-american-public-99

    nice try though grdz, cute

    2017-07-20
  7. jerry

    trump needs some jail time and that is why he wants to parden himself.

    2017-07-20
  9. Roger Elgersma

    But the main reason trump failed is because the people want health care, so that is a good reason for his republican plan to fail.

    2017-07-21
  10. mike from iowa

    Breaking noise- Senate intel chairman Burr, from NC sez the unmasking of WH officials that was charged to Susan Rice was made up by wingnut Devin Nunes. Isn’t that a criminal act to falsely accuse another of za crime?

    2017-07-21

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