Bob Vander Plaats Continues To Drive Everybody Insane

I don't really care for Bob Vander Plaats, but as a lightning rod for the far right he's really adorable in the way that he makes liberals go absolutely crazy by merely opening his mouth.  Look at the tolerance of the Left when it comes to dealing with BVP.  They don't want to ignore this one trick pony.  Instead, they express over-the-top outrage at somebody who used the system to legally get something done, as opposed to the Iowa Supreme Court who, let's admit it, made up new law because Kevin McCarthy and Mike Gronstal were too chickenshit to admit that a lot of Democrats in the Iowa Legislature didn't want homosexuals to get married.  I'm fine with letting homosexuals get married, just as long as the local TV news stations quit showing all those morbidly obese butch dykes kissing.  That shit is frightening.

Today the Cedar Rapids Gazette whips up the left in the comments with a story perfectly headlined Vander Plaats Calls On Remaining Judges To Resign:

Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats last week called on the four remaining Iowa Supreme Court justices to use next month’s annual message to lawmakers to announce their plans to resign.

Vander Plaats urged the four justices to “do the right thing” by stepping down rather than face impeachment by state lawmakers.

“We’re giving this court an opportunity to lead,” Vander Plaats said during the taping of an Iowa Public Television “Iowa Press” show slated to air Dec. 31.

Vander Plaats is just pushing buttons here while mentioning the "I" word, impeachment.  Look at the comments in that Gazette story!  BVP succeeds in driving them crazy.  But the left is getting angry over nothing.

Even if the Republicans wasted their time drafting articles of impeachment, they would have to prove this from Article III, Section 20 of the Iowa Constitution:

Officers subject to impeachment--judgment. SEC. 20. The governor, judges of the supreme and district courts, and other state officers, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor or malfeasance in office; but judgment in such cases shall extend only to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust, or profit, under this state; but the party convicted or acquitted shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, and punishment, according to law. All other civil officers shall be tried for misdemeanors and malfeasance in office, in such manner as the general assembly may provide.

I can't say whether the rest of the justices were involved in any misdemeanor or malfeasance while in office. Maybe they made up law and came down with a ruling that didn't please BVP and his crew, but does that constitute a misdemeanor or malfeasance?

And anyway, good luck climbing the hurdles imposed by Article III, Section 19:

Impeachment. SEC. 19. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment, and all impeachments shall be tried by the senate. When sitting for that purpose, the senators shall be upon oath or affirmation; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.

The Iowa House will have 60 Republicans and 40 Democrats in January. Good luck getting all 60 Republicans on board, much less finding 50 who want to waste their time with this crap. Even if the House passes impeachment, you still need 34 votes in the Iowa Senate to convict. Republicans only have 24 in the Senate and there's no way any Democrats are going to break ranks. No way.

BVP can talk all he wants, but impeachment is not going to happen.  He would be better off mobilizing and educating his supporters about why every judge should be voted out when up for retention and fixing the Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission so that it's partisan-neutral and doesn't contain 86% Democrats like today.  Instead you'll get BVP yammering about pointless impeachment and Republican cavemen like Nathan Tucker going on about sodomy licenses.

Don't you want to fix the system, BVP?  Isn't the issue bigger than just gay marriage?  It is!  Gay marriage is not going away, but you can make more of these pro-criminal judges go away if you just grew a frontal lobe.