Impeachment Coup?

No. The president is the subject of an impeachment inquiry that may lead to impeachment. Such is the process, and such is the nature of impeachment – an indictment of wrongdoing that, if proved in trial, can lead to the orderly removal of the president from office.


This is not a coup. Coups are normally violent, grisly, involve death of targeted persons and innocent bystanders. Coups are not lawful. They are the forceful taking of government power away from one party and give it to another. The other party is not the one currently elected to power. It is a taking.


The White House occupant has been in office nearly 3 years. During that time, he has bullied his way through many issues, concluding in changes to operations, procedures, and policies. He has erased standing policies with which he did not agree. He has asked staff to perform acts not in their job descriptions, then castigated them, and finally fired them, or made them resign. Enemies have popped up within the White House and external to it. Republicans have exited their own party and resigned from both the House and Senate in frustration with the ‘chief executive.’ Democrats have reluctantly played to their role as loyal opposition. Theirs is a voice of reason dictated by the US Constitution.


Denial of fact and truth is the script of the incumbent supporters of the president. They have stood in the way of logic, reason and policy for nearly 3 years. They have abetted the dilution and partial destruction of the US Constitution. They have done all of this in full view of the American people.


And those people are fed up with the nonsense, chicanery and dishonesty. Our nation no longer reflects our beliefs and values. Nothing much of value is accomplished. Problems are allowed to fester and grow without proper maintenance or repair. What once was a smooth operating government machine, is not a stuttering behemoth unable to articulate policy and procedure within any of the three branches of government – judiciary, legislative, executive. We have a mockery of America.


We are left to guess the motive. I think it is wealth and power for greedy people. I also think the ideology of rampant conservatism is not protection of America, but the minimalization of government and its role. Little policy, procedure or regulation is envisioned in such an idealized concept of government. Those with power are left to exercise it; those without power are forced to live with the consequences. People with wealth make more wealth without regulations protecting people of lesser wealth. Two classes result – the haves and have-nots.


We’ve been through this drama before throughout our history. It didn’t end well for either the wealthy or the poor. So why are we fiddling with a replay of this bad script? Because uneducated, ignorant selfish people are not aware of the repercussions of their deeds? Maybe, maybe not. Won wonders if darker purpose is afoot.


We need grownups to stand up and take charge. That’s what real adults do. And the tool they have at their disposal is the Articles of Impeachment. May they go forward and successfully stand the test of time in history. Let time judge the purity of their motives. Meanwhile, let’s clean up the White House and the Senate so the real business of America can resume.


Republicans take note: your perfidious actions and worn out ideology are on full display. Our prayers and thoughts are with you in your days of peril. Wake to the good news that awaits you.


October 3, 2019