by Nomad
After so much loose talk about impeaching President Obama, the GOP appears to be scoring own goals for Democratic campaign fundraising efforts.
In yet another example of a Republican self-inflicted wound, the Washington Post yesterday reported that, due to the threat of impeachment from top conservatives, the Democrats are cashing in big time.
Only Themselves to Blame
The Post article explained that the the Democrats' congressional campaign arm managed to rake in $2.1 million over the weekend, thanks, analysts say, largely because of the casual (and largely groundless) talk from House Republicans of impeaching President Obama.
Democrats have consistently used impeachment -- a prospect that has been floated by several prominent conservatives but has not been embraced by most of the Republican establishment -- to fill their campaign coffers and their polling has shown that fear of an impeachment attempt as well as the House GOP's current attempts to sue President Obama have the potential to drive midterm turnout on the left.
As the House Rules committee marched forward with a legal
action against the president and his use of executive action, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee has collected more than 114,000 donations
since last Thursday.
If, fundraisers warn, the Democratic party loses control of both chambers of Congress, the next step will be impeachment.
Fear-mongering or a likely scenario?
That depends on which side of the aisle you sit. Using the dread of a
long and tiresome (and expensive) impeachment process- which could drag out for
the remainder of Obama's presidency- appears to be a effective fundraising pitch for the
Democrats.
And the most humiliating part is that the successful pitch was laid in their laps by the Republican Tea Party rogues.
