Divorce And Impeachment

Have you ever thought about divorce and impeachment?  I mean, they're quite similar if you stop and think about it.  Marriage is when two people promise this and this and this, to each other.  You know, "'til death do us part".  And when one of the participants decides they don't want to live together 'till death anymore, divorce papers are filed.  Getting elected President is when two people promise each other something. The candidate promises to do this and this and this, and the voter promises to vote for the candidate (well sorta).  And when the voter decides for whatever reason that he cannot live anymore with the person he elected as President, he demands impeachment.

A divorce proceeding usually boils down to "He said" and "She said" and the judge has to decide who to believe.  There are a lot of divorce proceedings compared to very few impeachment hearings, but it basically amounts to the same thing.  In the case of a presidential impeachment, the witness says, "He did that" and the President says, "I didn't do that" and the Senate Judiciary Committee has to decide who to believe.  But, no Congress of the United States is going to try and convict a President of the United States on the basis of someone saying, "The President did that" and the President saying, "No I didn't".  The pundits and bloggers and ditto heads can bloviate all they want about the similarities between Barack Obama and Richard Nixon, but impeachment proceedings ain't gonna happen.  It all might make titillating news, but that's about all.

However, someone come up with a recording of the President incriminating himself, and that's a whole different ballgame.