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When all you have is a Clinton everything looks like impeachment

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Pink Floyd The Wall: Judge in the Arena – Gerald Scarfe

Andrew McCarthy is beating the rush (and a herd of dead horses) on calls to Impeach Bill Hillary Clinton!!

For our recent “Tricky Hillary” issue (National Review, Aug. 1, 2016, on NR Digital), I wrote a feature arguing that Mrs. Clinton should be impeached. Given that, through the last quarter-century of our politics, we have learned that pending Clinton scandals are interrupted only by new Clinton scandals, it comes as no surprise that my point has just been proven by a scandal that erupted last week.

I’m not sure which scandal A.M. has in mind, and frankly I’m not sure he is, either. At any rate, after a great many assertions about the mean nasty crookedness of Crooked Hillary the reader gets to something that looks more like a point than anything else that has gone before, but perhaps that’s just the desperation talking.

Mrs. Clinton’s audacity has caught the attention of two congressional committees, whose chairmen have noticed that the new revelations show she quite intentionally misled lawmakers in House testimony. (The testimony pertained to the Benghazi massacre, another “old” Clinton scandal, if you’re keeping score.) Last week, those chairmen — Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah) and Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.) of, respectively, the Oversight and Judiciary Committees — penned a letter to the Justice Department asking that Clinton be investigated and prosecuted for perjury.

Except as a political salvo to remind the public of Clinton’s mendacity as she campaigns for the presidency, the letter is pointless. The Obama Justice Department, having already declined to prosecute a solid felony case against Clinton for mishandling classified information and withholding government records is not going to give perjury allegations the time of day. More to the point, though, the congressional plea for a criminal investigation is wrongheaded. Mrs. Clinton should be impeached, not indicted.

He eventually settles down to explain why. A few centuries later he concludes with They’d do it to us so let’s do it to them because we’re the real victims, forever, amen.

Oh, one last thing. Let’s say the roles were reversed: The Democrats hold congressional majorities, and their presidential nominee is the dodgy real-estate mogul, while the Republicans are running a demonstrably corrupt former secretary of state. Would the Democrats have the slightest hesitation about impeaching the GOP candidate? I’m betting not only that the House would already have voted articles of impeachment; Senate Democrats would already have found the Republican votes they needed for conviction.

Anyone doubt me on that?

I certainly find it as convincing as anything else that comes out of the NRO.

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