Washington Mentality – 101

So the latest episode of “Days of our (Washington) Lives” finds Republican congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, stating that she intends to file Articles of Impeachment against President-elect Joe Biden on January 21st, the day after his inauguration.

Someone needs to contact Guinness World Records, because I’m pretty sure this will be an unbreakable world record for the ages.  This of course, follows the recent impeachment of President Trump by the House of Representatives.

If I may make a poker analogy, Ms. Taylor Greene has basically said, “I’ll see your impeachment and raise you one impeachment.”  My apologies to poker players everywhere, however, and I will go for a more fitting analogy. 

Biden’s threatened impeachment is the playground equivalent of “Oh yeah!?  Well… your mom is uglier than my mom!”  In the genre of tragicomedies, this one reigns supreme.  Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did.

Whether or not one agrees with the House impeachment of Trump, the undeniable fact is that… from any viewpoint one chooses to look at the end of Trump’s presidency… the only fitting description is a fiery train wreck.

We have gone from hoping for a good transition of power, to accepting there would be no transition, to now hoping the outgoing President doesn’t put whoopee cushions and tacks on the chairs in the White House. 

Normally, events between Election Day and Inauguration Day are as exciting and as newsworthy as watching grass grow.  The voting of Electors, the counting of electoral votes by Congress… usually transparent events to the general public.

This year brought the unthinkable breaching of the Capitol Building by an angry, violent mob.  Once again, regardless of your political viewpoints, January 6th was a horrifying, depressing day.  Those who applaud or defend the actions of the mob on that day are frankly indefensible themselves.

Trump’s second impeachment, whether people agree or not, was brought about by his role in the Capitol attack.  Whether he incited or did not incite, the fact of the matter is that he did not forcefully or energetically condemn the insurrection in a timely fashion.

Which brings us to Ms. Taylor Greene’s “tit-for-tat” game of one-upmanship, using impeachment as her weapon of choice.  The latest episode of the Washington D.C. soap opera, and a quick lesson in Washington Mentality 101.

Personally, I would be ashamed to have Ms. Taylor Greene as my Representative.