Several friends have recommended that I recommend the discussion from the latest Bill Moyers Journal. One of these friends is one of those guys I'd have bet serious money would be outraged at the segment, which is all about the feasibility and perhaps the necessity of impeaching George W. Bush or, preferably, Bush and Dick Cheney. I don't believe this is ever going to happen but I was impressed with some of the arguments, none of which strike me as real partisan manuevering. You can watch the video online or read a transcript from this page.
Speaking of real partisan manuevering, I'll just say I might disagree with one statement in the conversation. It's when one of the gents says that Tom DeLay wanted to use the impeachment process to remove Bill Clinton as president. Maybe. But it always struck me that those who were driving that movement, and DeLay in particular, knew that they'd never have the votes to convict Clinton. Perhaps they didn't know that early-on and they believed/hoped that a more genuine, significant Impeachable Offense would get uncovered. But at some point when they could still have just reprimanded the guy and gotten on with the nation's business, they decided to go all the way with it because (a) they thought they could embarrass folks like Al Gore who they'd be running against and force them into defending the indefensible and (b) they thought it would make a certain part of the Republican "base" very happy and eager to donate and get out the vote to oust Clinton supporters.
I have a special e-mail address that I use when I have to register on political sites…and it's probably signed up with more Liberal sites than Conservative but it's on both. It gets a ton of mail that says, in effect, "Give us money and we'll fix every problem in the world by destroying the Clintons." It also gets a ton that says, in effect, "Give us money and we'll cure every disease and physical ailment in your body." I think all these messages come from the same place.