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GOP Congressman Thomas Massie, a lame duck and evidently an unrepentant asshole, has been pushing for the impeachment of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth since September. This is from September 15:
The Congressman’s grandstanding is unethical in so many ways that it makes my teeth hurt. He knows that even if the impeachment effort is successful in the House, the chances of conviction are nil, so all he can accomplish at most is a colossal waste of time. In addition, it will only further degrade the Constitution’s safety valve on rogue officials, which the Democrats pretty much destroyed already by redefining impeachment as a partisan weapon rather than a bi-partisan, last resort means of removing an objectively corrupt or dangerously irresponsible government leader. Treating “following the policies of the elected President” as a high crime or misdemeanor is a dangerous precedent to pursue, and especially so now, when the Democratic Party has signaled that it finds the Constitution and democracy annoying impediments to its plans for permanent domination. But never mind: Massey really, really, really doesn’t like the Iran war, and as a mere representative, he doesn’t have the authority to stop it. His solution to this problem is throwing a tantrum and filing indefensible articles of impeachment.
As one pundit put it, “Donald Trump is Commander in Chief. Pete Hegseth didn’t sneak into the Pentagon one night, find the big red WAR button and start bombing Iran while Trump was asleep. He’s Trump’s Secretary of Defense, carrying out the military policy of the administration.” I have heard more than one progressive parrot use the Nuremberg excuse to justify punishing Hegseth for Trump’s policies. Since the very first war crimes trial (in the U.S., over the Andersonville prison), the dirty little not-so-secret has been that empowering subordinates to disobey the orders of their superiors based on judgments they are not empowered or qualified to make is a recipe for chaos and disaster.(cont.)
Massie, an MIT grad and Masters holder, has his waning moments in office arrogance while providing bipartisan cover for what’s coming America’s way with the next Congress. I hop the people of Kentucky find ways to legally make him as miserable as possible.
The Congressman has earned his honorary Masshole degree.