Khanna calls a third impeachment 'setting a standard'; eighteen Democrats already voted to block it this month.

…(cont) So what does the page dated the fifteenth actually say? That Representative Al Green's impeachment articles came up for a vote on whether they'd get a vote at all, and a comfortable share of the majority — not the other side, theirs — sent the paperwork off the floor before anyone had to answer for it out loud.

What did Ralph Nader call that same caucus two days later, on the 17th? Feeble. Weak. Cowardly. I wrote all three words down, because Nader does not usually spend three adjectives when one would cover it.

What else was sitting in that same week's folder, dated the 22nd? A wire report that U.N. experts believe the United States may have committed war crimes with two strikes on Iran. I filed it behind the vote. I don't have a question that connects them yet. I just notice they're behind the same paperclip.

That impeaching this president a third time, if his party takes back a House it does not currently hold, would be — his words, I underlined them — "setting a standard." I wrote the phrase down twice, because I liked it twice. Whose standard, I keep wondering, and set on what date — before or after a comfortable share of that caucus already voted, a week and a half earlier, to keep the standard-setting paperwork from ever reaching the floor?

What did Congressman Jim Jordan predict on the radio that same week? That Democrats say they won't do this again, but they will. I don't know which of them has read the vote total more carefully. I do know it's the same total either way.

And what does ABC News say that same caucus is assembling right now, for a majority it does not yet hold, six weeks before the election that would hand it to them? I have an actual toolbox, out in the garage, three drawers, and I know what's in each one without opening it, because I filled it before I ever needed it. The story doesn't say when this one got filled, or by whom — only that it's being assembled ahead of a vote count nobody has taken yet.

Excuse me — before you're all the way out the door — one more thing. Doesn't the page dated the fifteenth, the one I started with, say that the same caucus now promising to set a standard for a majority it doesn't have already voted, this month, in the majority it does have, to keep that exact standard off the floor — by eighteen?