The Legacy of Not Having Impeached Richard Nixon
This president, in the face of united and complete disagreement with his policies, in an atmosphere where he enjoys absolutely no support either nationally of internationally, refuses to change any aspect of his failed policy. What the hell can be done with a man like that?
There is a rather broad coalition of the angry across the nation, fairly salivating over the possibility of impeaching George Walker Bush. I am not among them. The assassination or impeachment of presidents is outrageous to the minds of Americans who cherish our willingness to accept differences, to mediate between disparate opinions and to slog on through the difficulties of governance.
Having said that, there are limits.
Slogging through doesn’t admit a temperament of indefinitely sitting on our hands while the national body politic is ravaged. The time has come to bring the principal executives of the nation before the law; certainly George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld; probably David Addington, Paul Wolfowitz, …