If you tell the country that the president of the United States may be so deeply corrupt that we must consider impeaching him, and you go through the hoo-hah of formally opening an impeachment inquiry, is it really reasonable to then say, “Well, uh, we’ll get back to you in a few weeks”?

You want to tell me this is understandable delay because of the chaos resulting from Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker by a cabal of renegades who had no plan for what they would do if they succeeded in colluding with Democrats to defrock a speaker who had 96 percent Republican support?

Okay . . . but here’s an interesting question then: On what authority is the impeachment inquiry now proceeding?

[That’s a good question. Presumably the next Speaker will unilaterally authorize it to continue, but then we can expect the Democrats to strike again, and to foment the potential for another rebellion for the purpose of another derailment. — Ed]