Settle down, David.

Via The Hill:

President Obama’s former campaign adviser David Axelrod on Friday condemned Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) claim that Obama was getting “perilously close” to being impeached.

“That was his considered legal opinion, as an obstetrician,” Axelrod quipped on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It’s plainly absurd, but it’s worse than absurd … I think he was way out of bounds.”

Axelrod said Coburn’s remarks, made Wednesday at a town-hall meeting in his home state, are representative of a “kind of virus” that has seized the country.

“When you think about the history of the last 20 years and the escalation of this kind of rhetoric, there are consequences for this country,” Axelrod said.