To impeach or not to impeach

Published: August 22, 2007, 8:53 pm

Tags: kuttner, constitution, american prospect, impeach, darth, kerry, wapo, pelosi, democrat, meyerson, duhbya

The American Prospect (subscribe to the dead tree edition - I do) offers two liberal perspectives on impeachment:Harold Meyerson takes the point of view of the Democratic Congressional "leadership".Robert Kuttner argues for sterner stuff along lines I've walked before.Both agree the Bushists deserve impeachment and removal for real and serious high crimes and misdemeanors. Meyerson spends a fair amount of copy trying to distract from the merits of the case against these witless would-be tyrants using humor. For me, he just wasn't funny enough to accomplish that.Meyerson does admit:This kind of assault on the Constitution is precisely what the founding fathers were guarding against when they crafted its language on impeachment.Hard to argue with that...Once the topic of just desserts is finally done, Meyerson starts with:First, there's no way that there will be sufficient votes to remove Bush and Cheney from office.Given the primary loyalty of Republicans to their party instead of

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