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Interesting piece. If someone other than Pence was the vice president, I might not be as confident as I am in my impeachment prediction. The prediction is that the Republicans who have the power to do so will reach the point where replacing Trump with Pence is their best option. Pence served 12...

Trump's credibility continues to erode as explained in this piece. People who work under him or might otherwise be expected to respond to him are increasingly ignoring him. Trump supporters can explain the report away by dismissing it as unfair and biased MSM reporting. The continuing lies...

GOP establishment Priebus is out and a retired Marine Corps general will take his place. What remains the same is the chief's own leadership style and personality traits. It will be interesting to see how the White House team behavior changes, if it changes at all, with a considerably different...

Their problem is they took an absolutist, all-or-nothing partisan position in the beginning. The problem was compounded as public support for Obamacare grew over the years. The Republicans maintained their absolutist position, putting themselves in the untenable position of pushing a bill that...

Is that what happened last night when McCain cast the deciding vote against Trump? Is McCain remembering Trump's comment ("I like people who weren't captured") and other criticism previously delivered? Should we add this to Turtle's Politics 101 instruction? "Claw my back and be clawed in...

The Senate defeated Repeal and Replace last night, denying Trump a key win. This piece offered up an interesting response. Should Trump start a third party? Should he be like Abraham Lincoln and do to the Republican party what the Republican party did to the Whigs? Time to replace the...

If that happened, what difference would it make and for whom?

Noted. However that phone call is characterized or not characterized, I believe it will figure into Murkowski's calculation if senators are asked to vote in an impeachment proceeding.

I don't want to get too deeply into this. Discussing the dynamics of a dysfunctional entity can itself become dysfunctional. Suffice it to say the Trump team in the White House is dysfunctional in several ways and that dysfunction is rooted in the context set by the leader.

Only if the leader was too incompetent or too fearful to exercise the power he already has. Or, only if the leader is a super-narcissist who thrives on chaos and creates it for its own sake. Or only if the leader is a truly cruel man who enjoys seeing people who offend him twist in the wind...

Understood

That's my key point.

I said above that impeachment is fundamentally a political act. It will only happen if the political will for it develops in congress. How might that happen? Consider this: A report surfaced today in the Alaska Dispatch News (see this) that "... each of Alaska's two Republican senators had...

So a new guy (communications director Scaramucci) comes in and, without apparent consequence to himself, quickly starts a public feud with the chief of staff (Priebus). Can you think of a parallel situation in any organization of any kind (government, business, non-profit service, social group...

OK. I get your point. Congress passes laws. The executive branch enforces them. That said, Congress also has the power to investigate, as is demonstrated right now by the various congressional investigations that are underway.

Correct. For impeachment proceedings to begin, a high crime(s) or misdemeanor(s) must be cited (or treason or bribery). For those wishing to impeach, it will be wise to make a credible case. But ultimately, impeachment is a political act. If the will to impeach develops in congress, it will...

While one congressman has already introduced an article of impeachment that cites obstruction of justice, most House Democrats consider this to be premature. The article does answer your question. In this case, the cited grounds are obstruction of justice. Numerous commentators and scholars...

Distraction from what? Distraction for what reason?

Burn the constitution completely to ashes? I don't get your meaning. Numerous special counsels and special prosecutors have been deployed over the years under various acts of law, have they not?

That might be Trump's hope but I do not think it would play out that way. Trump has done terrible damage to himself in recent days by treating Sessions as he did. Remarkably, he continues it today with yet another tweet. If Trump fires Sessions and then gets Mueller booted, lawmakers would...