The lines are crossed, the messages mangled

As I mentioned last week, the current Repub talking point on impeachment is that they’re not talking about it, don’t want it, Obama’s bringing it up so that he can get out the vote this fall. Total scam by the guy in the White House!
Republican Representative and rape apologist Steve King apparently didn’t get the memo as he’s announced Obama should be impeached if he doesn’t send back all those kids crossing the border.
I’m confident Repubs will continue playing the We Haven’t Said it game, though. After all, Andrew McCarthy, who wrote a book on the case for impeaching Obama (called in fact Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment) has now declared that of course his book wasn’t about impeachment: “To be clear, neither Bill, I, nor most Obama critics, nor any elected Republicans that I know of, are calling for the president’s impeachment at this point…”
As noted at the link, this kind of plausible deniability is only plausible if you start work before people point it out.