QOTD: A GOP Thug
by digby
Right wing talker and Fox News personality Mark Levin:
MARK LEVIN: What the Democrats have done here will only be stopped and the precedent that is so damning to this country will only be stopped if it is unleashed on them. The next president who's a Democrat must be impeached. They must be investigated over and over again, follow exactly the Schiff-Nadler procedures, the Nancy Pelosi process. It must be done. I know it sounds painful. I had a caller say to me the other day when I said that it was disingenuous, that it shows that we're no better than them. No, that's wrong. It shows we must defeat this internal Fifth Column enemy. And they must understand that we have the willingness to do it so they don't pull this again because otherwise, this is the precedent set in place now. Republicans will be rollovers for the rest of their time and Democrats will be bulldogs. We can't allow that.
They did that already. They impeached Bill Clinton in retribution for Richard Nixon. Some of them even said so at the time.
It's true that they were unable to enact their revenge on Carter, the first president to come after their martyred wingnut, but if he had won a second term, especially by beating their Dear Leader Ronald Reagan, they would have gone for it. And, in the end it worked out fine for them. They acted like a bunch of fools, the American people rejected them but they managed to steal the next presidential election anyway, despite losing the popular vote, and had 8 years of uninterrupted power to start war and destroy the economy as is their wont. They left Obama more or less alone because they needed the Democrats to take the burden of trying to restore the economy. But that was
So yeah, it is a good game plan for them when they lose an election but they tend to save for a time when the clean up on aisle one is finished.