What Impeachment Is

"Great discussion between Bill Moyers, Bruce Fein, and John Nichols on impeaching Bush and Cheney. Here are some highlights:..."

Very informative post. The following snippet illustrates something that often gets lost in the debate about impeachment-- it's not a crisis.

The Vanity Press: "...JOHN NICHOLS: You are seeing impeachment as a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis. Don't mistake the medicine for the disease. When you have a constitutional crisis, the founders are very clear. They said there is a way to deal with this. We don't have to have a war. We don't have to raise an army and go to Washington. We have procedures in place where we can sanction a president appropriately, do what needs to be done up to the point of removing him from office and continue the republic. So we're not talking here about taking an ax to government. Quite the opposite..."