Law

For some (many?) Democratic voters and activists, one of their reasons to support Barack Obama (or John Edwards or Bill Richardson or ...) in the Democratic Party primaries in 2007/2008 was a visceral fear of the RWSM (Right-Wing Sound Machine) and how it how it had built up (irrational) hatred of Hillary Clinton in a substantial (minority) segment of Americans (overlapping heavily, one might suspect, with Tea Party ranks) while fostering doubts and uncertainties and questioning among many others.  Considering that Senator Hillary Clinton showed herself, writ large, to be anything but some radical politician and demonstrated, on many issues, an ability to sit down and work with some who had been her (and her husband's) harshest critics, the absurdity of most of these attacks and ill-informed anger against Hillary Clinton are clear for anyone able to step back to look dispassionately at these attacks.

With such a dispassionate step back, one would also come to the conclusion that -- with the eased shift to hatred-filled attacks on President Obama -- any hint of ethical scandal associated with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that suggested the potential of supporting foreign interests over American interests in assistance to a former political aide would serve as rich fodder for the RWSM.  One would expect Rich Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and the Republican National Committee and Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell and others would be screaming for Speaker of the House John Boehner to start impeachment hearings at the first inkling of the potential that Secretary Hillary Clinton's State Department had possibly favored a former Clinton political adviser who was lobbying the State Department (and entire U.S. government) in support of foreign business interests without, it seems, ever registering as a lobbyist -- let alone a lobbyist for foreign interests.  And, imagine the screams for her head when the Clinton State Department allowed a foreign business interest to run public hearings in a way that favored the foreign interests and shunted aside American citizens' perspectives.

You would expect those impeachment calls, wouldn't you ...