In Brazil, president Dilma Rousseff was just impeached and will now stand trial in the Brazilian senate on charges of using phony accounting to avoid having to follow the Brazilian Constitution fiscal rules. In Argentina, the former president Kirchner has been indicted for using the Argentine central bank to shore up the Argentine currency without the necessary approval of the legislature. That's the two largest countries of South America that are in the process of punishing their president or ex-president for violating the law and constitution. If they can do it, why can't we? We have a president who won't enforce the law as written, who tries to rewrite the law without congressional approval and who refuses to comply with both court orders and congressional mandates. Can it be that the rule of law is stronger in Brazil and Argentina than here? Is the USA now a banana republic but without the bananas?
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