was released, particularly because it touched on the president s age and memory, two issues that they anticipate congressional republicans are going to attack the president on over the course of this morning s hearing. and again, the white house, when they pushed back on this, they took issue with the way that the president was characterized, and the president himself was clearly irritated in a press conference that occurred in february, just after its release . that s that s my memory has gotten worse, mr. president. my memory is not. my memory is fine. my memory. take a look at what i ve done since i ve become president. none of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. how did that happen? you know, i guess i just forgot what was going on. do you fear that this report is only going to fuel further concerns about your age? only by some of you now, notably casey. since then, the campaign has released a new ad tackling bi
called wafer thin evidence. this is where impeachment becomes the norm rather than the exception. that s not how our founding fathers intended. they wanted impeachment to be rare. they set a high bar for impeachment. alleged abuse of power, the first article is not a high crime or misdemeanor. in fact it s not even a crime. since there is no concise legal definition of abuse of power the majority party in the house can designate nearly any disagreement with the president are now in an impeachable offense. the second article produced a similarly dangerous precedent. it s a practice that began with george washington and it s not obstruction of congress. rather it s a function of the essential checks and balances contemplated under the constitution. it is what every grade school student in america knows but apparently house democrats do
not. let the third branch of government decide to come up they are the referees. the house has never, i repeat never, approved an abuse of power roi ob
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