This in a blog entitled Magic 8-ball says, “Stop smoking crack”:
(T)he Democrats might want to widen their majority by one in a way even Tom DeLay never tried, that infamous Article I, Section 2 backdoor: the House gets to “chuse their Speaker,” who doesn’t have to be a member of the House.
And if Democrats want to shore up their standing among their base, and among moderates, and especially among black voters, to whom could they turn? Well, William Jefferson Clinton, obviously. People still love that guy. And talk about street cred on those separation of powers issues. Got a president you don’t like using the Constitution in ways you disapprove? Wheel out your own president, and make him Speaker. And there’s precedent. Former president John Quincy Adams served in the House (albeit as an elected member) from 1831 to 1848.
Now, obviously, there’s not a snowball’s chance in Hell that this is going to happen, not least because neither Pelosi nor Hoyer are going to gracefully step aside (and that’s if the Democrats even win a majority of House seats in November). But, with all that impeachment talk, one does have to concede the historical singularity of an impeached former-president, Speaker Clinton presiding over the House in its deliberation of Articles of Impeachment against President George Walker Bush and/or Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney.
Gotta hand it to the Jaded JD, that’s pretty darned interesting reading, though given former President Clinton’s hawkish stance on Iraq one questions whether the progressive extremists will ever allow that to enter the realm of consideration…