[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
Carol Costello badgered Congressman Matt Salmon on the 31 July 2014 edition of CNN Newsroom over Congress choosing to go into recess instead of dealing with issues like illegal immigration: "Congress is again the butt of jokes on late-night TV. Rome burns and lawmakers go on vacation....Why don't you guys just stay in Washington and deal with problems like immigration?"
Costello also hounded the Arizona Republican for the House of Representatives' vote to sue President Obama, and wondered, "Why didn't Republicans vote to impeach the President then?" She rattled off a list of GOP politicians who had raised the specter of impeachment in the past:
CAROL COSTELLO: ...The Democrats are throwing the impeachment word out there...and they're raising money off it. All of that is true. But as The Washington Post points out, Republicans have consistently threatened to impeach the President – Sarah Palin, Darrell Issa in 2010 over a Cabinet position; in December of 2011, Congressman Sensenbrenner threatened impeachment over Fast and Furious; in May of 2013, Senator James Inhofe threatened impeachment over Benghazi. And the list goes on. In other words, Republicans gave Democrats ammunition for this.