GOP House Lays Groundwork For Clinton Impeachment

If you are willing to concede that Hillary Clinton will probably win the Presidency and you are interested in having a government that will actually try to address the problems confronting our country these days, you had better hope that Republicans lose control of the House of Representatives. In addition to their efforts to bring perjury charges against Hillary over her testimony about Benghazi, they are also preparing a similar charge with her testimony about her emails. GOP Representatives Bob Goodlatte and Jason Chaffetz, two perennial bomb throwers, have sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking to pursue perjury charges related to four statements that Clinton made during her Congressional testimony that contradicted the subsequent FBI report. Although Clinton denied that anything was marked classified at the time she sent or received it, the FBI found three emails that did have classified markings. The FBI noted that those markings were incomplete, possibly in error, and way down in a chain of emails that Clinton received. CLinton also claimed that her attorneys "went through" every email before deciding whether it was personal and eligible for deletion or needing to be archived as government business. In fact, her attorneys did not read every one of the 30,000 emails and their attached chains but used search terms and header information to make their determination. Unfortunately for Goodlatte and Chaffetz, perjury requires an actual intent to deceive which neither of these instances shows. As Democrat Elijah Cummings succinctly put it, "[T]his Republican perjury referral is making a mockery out of congressional authority and trivializing our procedures for political purposes". Of course, right now this is just a way for Republicans to keep the email issue in play until the election. But, as we have seen time and time again, this will not end if Hillary Clinton is elected President. Just as with the multiple votes to repeal Obamacare, the GOP will hold endless hearing about both of these "faux scandals" and the pressure from the tea-party and the Hillary-haters within the Republican party will make it very difficult to avoid impeachment hearings. It will be business as usual for the GOP as it has for the last eight years with Obama. They refuse to engage in governing and actually dealing with the problems confronting the country. Instead, they will spend endless hours and countless dollars on futile investigations of their political opponents in vain attempts to score political points. The country cannot afford four more years of that kind of governance.