GOP senator says impeachment is about as popular among Americans as skim milk

John Kennedy.
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) sure has a way with words.

He's been using some colorful imagery to urge Democrats to make a decision on impeachment one way or the other for a while now, and he did not disappoint on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation, telling CBS's Margaret Brennan that Democrats need to go buy a spine from Amazon if they really want to go through with the process. "If you're not going to do it, then let us get back to work," he said.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.