Democrats’ Word Games Show They Can’t Find a True Impeachable Offense

• Democrats’ Word Games Show They Can’t Find a True Impeachable Offense
  by Rich Lowry, https://nypost.com/
  If the impeachment effort isn’t taking the nation by storm, the Democrats have an answer — blame it on Latin. The use of a Latin term, quid pro quo, is now thought to be a damper on the impeachment cause because it sounds complex and technical.
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  Latin is one of the great legacies of the Roman Empire, influencing languages across Europe and giving us scientific, medical and legal terms that heretofore had been thought perfectly fitting.
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  That was before Democrats felt they needed a more emotive phrase to characterize President Trump’s conduct in the Ukraine-call controversy, and especially one that denotes a more grave ­offense.
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  Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, from Connecticut, made the case on “Meet the Press” over the weekend: “When you’re trying to persuade the American people of something that is really pretty simple, which is that the president acted criminally and extorted, in the way a mob boss would extort somebody, a vulnerable foreign country, it’s probably best not to use Latin words to explain it.”
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  There’s a lot to unpack here. The first problem is that Ukraine is not nearly as simple, or as dramatic, as Democrats first hoped. It doesn’t have something memorable and inherently attention-grabbing at its heart, like the Watergate break-in or the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. It involved a pressure campaign on the Ukrainians that — once examined closely — was complicated, ambiguous and highly contested within the administration. No matter what word is applied to it — even the plainest, non-Latinate English word — this isn’t going to change.
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