Bring Back the Good Old Impeachments

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on this blog.  Basically, I’ve been up to my fetlocks in other projects, but a persistent voice in my skull nags me:  Write something, even if it’s wrong.

So—I’m longing for the presidential trials of years gone by, the good old impeachments.  Clinton-Lewinsky was simple, just two people in starring roles.  Nixon and the Watergate break-in was a little more complicated than Bill and Monica, but still “Paranoia and the Plumbers” was easy to follow. 

But Trump et al.  Every day there’s a new name, a new angle, a new lie:  Oh, what a tangled web we weave!

The whole thing could make a good board game.  Maybe with a working title such as “Chaos,” and the object of the game being to avoid meltdown.  Something like that.

But just suppose Trump isn’t removed from office and we’ve got to endure more of this turmoil?  Then we could have a different board game.

It could be called SAPS, for “Shaft the American PeopleS”:  The theme:  Players match wits against the Trumpster as he grows wealthier at the expense of the American taxpayer.

So I'm finished writing something, and now I’m going to leave the room and go down the hall to where the relaxing beverages are kept.

I deserve one.  We all do.

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Patience, Forsooth, Yea Verily

"Impeach Trump" results on Google--about 19,500,000 (May 10, 2017)

In a summer years ago, I and several family members vacationed in the Pacific Northwest.  Early in August, we pulled our trailer into a campground in the wooded mountains east of Tacoma.

The area was remote, and this was a time before the internet.  I don't know if television reception was available there, but faint radio signals could be heard. In the park office that night, an employee and I listened to a scratchy broadcast of President Richard M. Nixon resigning from the highest office in the land.

The date was August 8, 1974.  My trip diary for that date recorded, "Nixon resigned today."

Behind that terse entry were my feelings of frustration and wonderment: Why did it take so long?

More than two years earlier, in June 1972, burglars had broken into the offices of the Democratic National Party at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.  They got caught, and during 1973 and into 1974 it became clear in the media that the Republican Nixon was behind the burglary and other acts of political spying and sabotage.  On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee passed the first of three articles of impeachment, charging obstruction of justice.  Two years had gone by before the nation could get rid of a president who claimed he was not a crook.

That's the way it is.  Many people, and I'm one of them, would like to be done with the current occupant of the White House.  But it'll take time.  The wheels of justice slog along slowly and, we hope, fairly.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to relive those painful moments of yesteryear, the internet is loaded with information about Watergate and Nixon.  I used this site:
http://watergate.info/

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