It's Not True That Impeachment Paralyzes Government (Unfortunately)

It ’s a “solemn” and “sad” affair, impeachment: there are so many reasonsto wear black. That ’s what the pols and pundits tell us, anyway. Tonight’s House vote will unleash a host of plagues: stoking partisan furies, rattling the markets, and— worst of all from this town’s perspective—distracting Congress and the president from doing“the people’s business.” We ’re in for a period of “squandered months during which official Washington is pulled apart,”U.S. News ’s Kenneth Walsh warned in late September: brace yourself for“The Coming Impeachment Paralysis”!  Some of us don ’t find that prospect particularlyterrifying, but your mileage may vary. In any case, after last week ’s legislative onslaught, can we finally put thisparticular hobgoblin out to pasture —or wherever it is that worn-out hobgoblins go? For better or worse, it’s just not true that“nothing gets done” during an impeachment.“Hidden by impeachment: 'One of Trump’s best weeks yet,’” theWashington Examiner ’s Paul Bedardcrowed on Friday. In the midst of the impeachment drive, the president just keeps putting points on the board, including “a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal,” confirmation of his 50th appellate judge, “government family leave,” and—cue“Also Sprach Zarathustra”—Space Force! TheNew York Times hailed the $738 billion “defense” bill, which includes paid parental leave for over 2 million federal workers, as “part of a year-...
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