so_crates wrote:If the president breaks the law it's just as illegal as if a private citizen broke the law.
I doubt nobody cares, as congress has a few lawsuits filed against Obama.
None of which will go anywhere, that's what I mean by "nobody cares". American politics is above all a team sport; supporters will support their team, and demonize the other team, at any opportunity, and none of them care what the truth is.
Case in point: when Bush was President, and Obama just a senator, the latter waxed eloquently about how things like raising the debt ceiling and ubiquitous Executive Orders were due to poor leadership and unwarranted expansion of executive power, while Republicans didn't say a word. Today those roles are 180 degrees reversed, and neither "side" remembers when it was any other way. Because team sport.
I think the reasoning is more: Why bother he only has a year to go. By time impeachment proceeding start, he'll be out of office.
That's the practical reason, and it's a good one; why waste the time and money on it when it will be too late to do any good?
The other consideration, I think, is do we really want Biden to be president?
I find it hard to imagine that would be any worse. To quote Penn Jillette, "the president should have so little power that it doesn't matter who it is, instead of having so much power it doesn't matter who it is."
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." - Thomas Sowell