OPINION:
A boss can fire an employee with impunity for any legal reason, including simply not liking the employee. However, a boss’ subordinates/employees can only fire another employee per the boss’ instruction, lest they find themselves slated for termination.
The collective boss in the current impeachment scenario is the American people. Congress and the president are their subordinates/employees. The U.S. Constitution — which, among other things, serves as the boss’ employment manual — was prepared by the original bosses, the Founding Fathers.
The Constitution states that Congress can only fire a president for having committed high crimes and misdemeanors, not because they dislike him (which many members clearly do). Knowing this, those charging him cobbled together a litany of confounded, convoluted and contorted conclusions based upon opinion, inference, innuendo and inbred hearsay.
Realizing that the charges do not meet the requirement of high crimes and misdemeanors, the House Democrats changed the standard (without authorization from the boss) to “the abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.” In addition to not meeting the constitutional standard, their examples of this new standard are weak, wobbly, vague and nebulous. Needless to say, they will not pass muster.
Accordingly, if President Trump is to be removed from office it must be done by the American people, the collective boss who will decide his fate in November 2020.
HESSIE L. HARRIS
Silver Spring, Md.
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