On Saturday’s PBS News Weekend, anchor John Yang and his appointed expert Sarah Binder of George Washington University discussed how Republican “hardliners” are weaponizing impeachment. The online headline was “Expert analyzes the rise of impeachment as a weapon of partisan politics,” but there was no discussion of Democrats cheapening impeachment as Pelosi’s House impeached Trump twice.
Binder, who began her career as an aide to Democrat Congressman Lee Hamilton, wasn’t as blatantly partisan as Michael Gerhardt on the NewsHour last month. Yang noted that then-Congressman Gerald Ford said in the 1970s that impeachment is whatever a majority of the House says it is. Binder agreed with that in a political sense.
“We live in an inherently and intensely partisan time,” she said, “Of course, you know, we have very tight majorities, very slim majorities, and…
