The Bar’s Just Been Raised For Impeachment

Twenty years ago President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about sex. Last week Donald Trump got away with a whole lot more.

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t just conduct an evidence-and-witness-less sham trial which will go down as the biggest cover-up in political history, he essentially re-wrote the Constitution to make it that much harder to ever impeach and ultimately remove a president again.

So for all intents and purposes, here’s a shortlist of High Crimes and Misdemeanors that, according to Republicans, no longer qualify as impeachable offenses:

• Pathological lying
• Sexual assault
• Sexism
• Racism
• Xenophobia
• Incitement of violence
• Bullying
• Attacking children
• Caging children
• Separating families
• Attacking disabled people
• Attacking the Pope
• Attacking Gold Star families
• Attacking war heroes (alive AND dead)
• Campaign finance violations
• Emoluments clause violations
• Self-enrichment