Impeachment
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This enabled her to win reelection in 2014 – and it is propelling her toward
impeachment
today.
By itself, Rousseff’s likely
impeachment
will solve nothing.
Public opinion polls showed, for the first time, a plurality of Americans favoring Nixon’s
impeachment.
Congressmen introduced
impeachment
resolutions.
A few days after that, Nixon resigned rather than face certain
impeachment
and removal from office.
When this was finally revealed by the Watergate tape recordings, Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974 to avoid
impeachment.
In Brazil, and pending final consideration by the Senate, President Dilma Rousseff has been sidelined by a “temporary impeachment,” with her replacement signaling a shift away from the policies of the leftist Workers’ Party.
Such obstruction was one of the charges pending against Richard Nixon when he resigned, rather than face certain
impeachment
in the House and conviction by the Senate.
(The criteria for
impeachment
on grounds of obstruction are not exactly the same as they are under criminal law.)
Talk of
impeachment
has become ubiquitous, but
impeachment
shouldn’t be attempted – and cannot be politically viable – unless it has a bipartisan basis rooted in the center of the two parties, as was the case with Nixon.
Any appropriate measure to remove the danger – the ballot box, impeachment, or invocation of the US Constitution’s 25th Amendment – would help restore our safety.
Bush and Putin both came to power in 2000, a year when their countries were scrambling to regain international respect, Russia from the chaos of the Yeltsin years and the US from the failed
impeachment
of President Clinton.
Here is an illustrative example: it is only after the president started and lost the war in Chechnya that the opposition managed to attract society's attention to his
impeachment.
Regardless of whether Rousseff is removed from power, the key issue raised by the
impeachment
threat – her management of fiscal policy – underscores the need to overhaul Brazil’s economic institutions.
At the heart of the
impeachment
charges against Rousseff is an accusation that she violated Brazil’s Fiscal Responsibility Law.
So far, the
impeachment
debate has focused on politics, rather than on this precise economic and institutional concern.
Now Indonesia’s President Wahid faces possible impeachment; so, too, may Taiwan’s president.
The next time millions of people march peacefully in Cairo to demand that their voices be heard, the trigger may not be a self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid, but a riot in Istanbul, the
impeachment
of a US president, or electoral victories for progressive parties in Europe.
To be sure, massive corruption scandals have also severely eroded Rousseff’s standing, and are the key reason why she is now facing
impeachment
proceedings.
And the prospect of the House Judiciary Committee taking up the question of
impeachment
has grown stronger with the latest accusations.
But true reform can be achieved only in a spirit of reconciliation, and the military regime's crude
impeachment
of deposed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (Thaksin's sister) in January – on trumped-up charges that seemed flimsy even to many of her diehard opponents – has made that impossible.
The ghosts of the past – authoritarianism, political persecution, and censorship – have been left behind, as Brazilian democracy passed important tests suchas the
impeachment
of a president and the rise to the presidency of a former trade union leader.
For example, Pakistan’s thriving jihadist factions arose under two military dictators: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who used them to confront the Soviets in Afghanistan, and Pervez Musharraf, who fled to London in 2008 under threat of
impeachment
and was subsequently charged with involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007 – a milestone in Pakistan’s slide into chaos.
In yet another example of the politicization of corruption investigations, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned on the eve of an
impeachment
vote precipitated by his ties to Odebrecht, after the release of video recordings that showed key allies trying to buy the support of opposition lawmakers.
The same cannot be said of Rousseff’s replacement, Michel Temer, who has managed to evade two
impeachment
attempts by buying political support in Congress.
Indeed, plummeting oil prices helped to push the region’s largest economy, Brazil, into its worst recession in decades, while a major corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state oil company, has thrown the country’s politics into disarray, with President Dilma Rousseff now facing
impeachment.
Without the revelation of secret White House tapes, Nixon almost surely would have escaped
impeachment
and served out his term.
By polarizing the American public to such an extent, he and the Republicans could suffer defeat in the 2018 midterm elections or in the 2020 presidential election; and he could even expose himself to the risk of
impeachment.
There are two other escape valves: the 25th Amendment, which charts a course for removing a president who is unable to discharge the responsibilities of office, and
impeachment
for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
And, assuming that Trump stays healthy, avoids impeachment, and runs again, the last thing he would want in 2019 and 2020 is sharply higher interest rates, an untimely rise in unemployment, and a likely price collapse in his beautiful stock market.
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