Joe Conason details one of the Bush administration moves that would have Republicans drawing up impeachment resolutions if a Democrat tried it. In fact, even some Republicans aren't going along with this one. It's a new policy, slipped into the renewal of the Patriot Act, that allows the White House to fire any career prosecutor who's investigating, say, a Bush ally and replace him with a political stooge.
Senator Arlen Specter is apparently the guy who slipped it into the bill, and his excuse is that one of his staffers did it without his knowledge. Isn't this just about the lamest thing a representative could say? "I didn't know what was in the legislation I sponsored." If your career gets to the point where you have to hide behind alibis like that, shouldn't you do the honorable thing and leave Congress for a job at a carnival, letting people throw balls at you in a Dunk-the-Ex-Senator tank?
The Conason article in on Salon, which will probably make you watch a commercial if you're not a subscriber. But if you feel like getting angry about the way your government's run today, it's worth it.