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| Ronald Coleman as seen through the eyes of a tipsy Norma Talmadge in Kiki (1926), via Matinee Moustache. |
Shorter Monsignor Ross Douthat, Apostolic Nuncio to 42nd Street, "A Case Against Impeachment: Three (provisional) reasons not to put the president on trial":
Hi, I've called for siccing the 25th Amendment on our president, but that was before I became world-weary and cynical a few months ago. Now I'd like to adduce three (provisional) reasons for rejecting Yoni Appelbaum's call for Congress to begin a formal impeachment inquiry: because (1) Trump hasn't succeeded in doing a large number of the harmful things he has promised to do; (2) we knew he was a snake before we took him in; and (3)That was probably really the subeditor's fault for writing the stupid cross-hed. There were three reasons (paragraphs 1-4) for thinking the president might not last through the end of 2020, one of which was that Appelbaum and others are interested in impeachment, and "several" reasons for not impeaching (the rest of the column, but only two are numbered, so that it's unclear whether the other stuff is additional reasons or instantiations of the first two), and the subeditor got confused.
It's funny to bring up Trump's incompetence as a reason for not getting rid of him:
