This is longtime Cato Daily podcast host, Caleb Brown. I've moved on to head the Kentucky's

Bluegrass Institute, but I wanted to leave listeners with some favorite episodes over the last

nearly 18 years of my hosting tenure. I tried to pick episodes that are relevant to our current

moment. Thank you for listening.

This is the Cato Daily podcast for Tuesday, July 25, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Impeachment has occurred only twice, three times if you count Richard Nixon, but should Congress use it more?

After all, as Cato's Gene Healy points out, abuses of office that rise to

that level happen on a fairly regular basis. We spoke last week. Why don't we impeach

presidents very often? Well, we seem to be scared of the process. You actually hear people

refer to it as the I word as if it's somehow fundamentally

profane or blasphemous.

You know, we don't call it the V word when the president's about to veto a bill, but this

is for some reason we go to the constitutional equivalent of H.E.

double L hockey sticks when we're talking about impeachment.

And it really is whatever you think of Donald Trump and the calls for his impeachment, that

shouldn't determine what you think about impeachment in general.

And it seems to me that the fact that we've only managed two impeachments in 230 years

of constitutional history, Nixon technically got out before the hammer fell, so he

technically wasn't impeached, but let's call it three.

Given the number of crooks and clowns

and abusers of power we've been saddled with through the course of over two centuries of

...