When it gets to the policy level, it becomes consuming, draining and distracting, and the result is it is hard to get serious policy initiatives moving forward. While true, that's nothing new, suggested Benjamin Ginsberg, director of the Center for the Study of American Government at Johns Hopkins University. The bureaucracy marches on doing its business, but in terms of the policy-making role of the president, that has been severely disrupted for the past year. And I think a lot of the business of Congress has been disrupted as well. A full-blown impeachment is just more of the same.
History offers guidance.
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