On impeachment

Mike Barnicle, MSNBC contributing analyst, speaking about the president's attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the possibility that he might fire him:

"The reality of it is that we are part of an age right now where most Republicans seem to be more afraid of an assault on them by Twitter than they are about the dangers of a presidency that is unraveling before our very eyes.  That's the fact of our political lives.

"And eventually it's going to come down to three C's.  It's going to come down to their character, their conscience, and their common sense [as to] what they [Republicans] do with this presidency."

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John Dean, White House Counsel during the Nixon administration, eventually became a cooperating witness in the Watergate trials, and served a prison term for his involvement in the coverup before that.  He commented on CNN on the current Trump actions:

"What I think we're witnessing is a very public obstruction of justice.  He's already, as I see it, exceeded everything that Nixon did.  He's much more involved than Nixon ever was in the cover-up.  Nixon did it behind closed doors, so people were surprised when it came out on tape.   But Trump is just right out front on it, dealing with it very publicly.

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We're not likely to see impeachment this year with just over seven months before the election.  Even if the Republicans wanted to, there's hardly time to prepare for it.  But it feels to me that it's moving inexorably toward impeachment.    If the women don't get him first, which could happen.

Ralph