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Finding the Peachy in Impeachment
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
I’ve been listening to the Impeachment trial on the radio and marveling at the way words and phrases can be manipulated to mean whatever a lawyer or politician wants them to mean. Pondering and pontificating on what the Framers of the Constitution meant sounds exhausting.
Let’s get one thing straight. The Fathers (not Mothers) of the Constitution accidentally or intentionally missed a lot of basic stuff when it came to rights and laws. And if they got it wrong when it came to a simple word like “we,” maybe they didn’t know what they meant when it came to a phrase like “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
There have been a lot of oaths in the past week, so here goes mine. I swear to God, on day 281 leading up to the election, I’d pay good money if Supreme Court Justice John Roberts would be willing to play the role of Fletcher Reede from the movie, “Liar, Liar,” for just a couple minutes in the trial.
Adam Schiff could ceremonially bring a phone up to the Justice with the President on the line. When the President asks Roberts what he should do about a certain illegal action he has been accused of again, Roberts would hold the phone out in front of his face and scream, “STOP BREAKING THE LAW, !*#!+#*.”
