In a meeting with constituents, still another GOP office holder fails to stand up and just say “We have no real basis for impeaching President Obama.” or at least a wimpy equivalent when confronted with a raging partisan. This time it’s Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who occasionally seems pretty rational.

“What you have to do is you have to establish the criteria that would qualify for proceedings against the president, and that’s called impeachment,” Coburn said, responding to a question about holding President Obama accountable. “That’s not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means. I think there’s some intended violation of the law in this administration, but I also think there’s a ton of incompetence, of people who are making decisions.”
“Even if there is incompetence, the IRS forces me to abide by the law,” a constituent responded to Coburn.
“No, I agree,” Coburn said. “My little wiggle out of that when I get that written to me is I believe that needs to be evaluated and determined, but thank goodness it doesn’t have to happen in the Senate until they’ve brought charges in the House. Those are serious things, but we’re in a serious time. I don’t have the legal background to know if that rises to high crimes and misdemeanor, but I think they’re getting perilously close.”

Emphasis mine.

Sorry, but there is absolutely no proof of anything that comes close to impeachable offenses when it comes to the Obama administration except in the minds of those who insist on emphasizing Obama’s middle name whenever they talk or write about him. But Republicans standing in front of the base of their party apparently can’t admit that for fear of enraging enough of them to encourage a primary challenge.

Given the treatment accorded to the Clintons during Bill Clinton’s presidency and what’s happening now I feel safe in predicting that the same things will be happening to the next Democratic president.