But it’s among ’em.
I’m sure there must have been things that were sillier. But the push by some members of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s caucus to expunge Donald Trump’s impeachments is moves the needle on our Outlandish Scale.
They want to say officially that the impeachments never happened.
The House and Senate never debated his impeachments—two of them—no matter what hundreds of pages of the Congressional Record show. Or newspaper stories. Or archived video and audio of hours of proceedings. Or personal memories.
Major issues foreign and domestic loom over the Congress but there are people who think one of the most important things to do is say the House did not impeach Donald Trump.
If the House didn’t impeach him, what were those trials in the Senate all about then?
Here we fall back on some trite observations familiar to all of us:
You can’t un-ring a bell.
You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube.
Other perceptions come to mind:
You can close the barn door, but the horse is already gone.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
What are they going to do if they pass their expungement resolution? Come around to my door and tell me “Fuggedaboudit?” What will they do if I don’t?
Donald Trump is the only president to be impeached twice. Period.
Whether he likes it or not, he’s past history. And the number of people who care what he likes is diminishing.
Don’t waste time on Trump when there’s Joe and Hunter Biden to maul. Trump is outdated liverwurst. The Bidens are fresh meat.
And in your spare time, address the debt limit and the budget. And clean up the daily accumulating mess represented by New York’s third district congresman.
But as far as erasing impeachment? Move on. Get over it.