“A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.” – John Innes Clark Hare, 1888, paraphrasing Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 There’s been much talk of “swamprats” lately. Just what is a swamprat? It’s a person, in or out of government, who likes bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake. They refuse to take responsibility for the decisions they make in their little fiefdom, and each organization supports the other, as long as it’s against Trump. Having just sat through week two of the ...