On Thursday, a few, very few, members of the Maine House brought an order to begin an impeachment process against Governor Paul LePage.  The measure failed as the body voted to indefinitely postpone the action by an overwhelming margin.

While we all need to move on, I am going to make a couple of quick observations about this episode.

I hope the very few members of the Maine House who thought the order to begin the impeachment process will hear their own words and apply their “principled” stand to members of their own party and their conduct as an elected official, not just a member of the opposing party who they failed to defeat twice at the ballot box.  Many who spoke on Thursday during the debate of the issue invoked many storied names in Maine history as a standard by which the current body of members should be measured.  They extolled their virtues and principles.

Ray Richardson explains the issue in his blog “It Might Just Be Me.”