Impeachment?

John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon and author of "Worse Than Watergate", a pre 2004 presidential election book about the Bush/Cheney Administration, recently on stage with Senator Barbara Boxer (R, CA) stated that President Bush is the first US President to admit to committing an impeachable offense.

Impeachment of a President is not a judicial process.  It is a political process. As long as the US House of Representatives remains under Republican Party majority rule, there is no chance of impeaching this President. But what would happen if in 2006 the Democrats should gain control of the House of Representatives?

The "common wisdom" is that as a nation we are not ready to face the disruption of another impeachment procedure. I believe that this is either wishful thinking or those that have the most to lose by such a procedure are promoting this "wisdom" in order to forestall the possibility of it actually occurring. What I see is a building momentum on the part of Bush's opponents for just such an action fueled by the latest revelations of the use of the National Security Agency to do domestic spying on potential terrorists without any check or balance.

The following link is to an article that appeared on the blog by the editor of  The Nation magazine, Katrina vanden Heuvel.

The Nation-"The I Word is Gaining Ground"

--  Michael My Blog: http://myweb-blog.blogspot.com  "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" Abraham Lincoln  "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin