
Sen. Chuck Hagel, (R. Neb.) in the current issue of Esquire:
The president says, 'I don't care.' He's not accountable anymore, he's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends how this goes.
Surprising words from a Reagan Republican in a safe seat. So why is impeachment a bad strategy? Again, Sen. Hagel:
[Unlike Vietnam] You don't have the draft, so you don't have that many people touched. This is a more sophisticated political divisiveness. It divides people from their government....You can't do anything about the president. He's gone. But you can do something about your congressman. That's why all these Republicans are so nervous.
Exactly. Impeaching this Chief Executive - let alone enduring the Senate trial to convict him - would be folly. It will hand the GOP exactly the ammunition they need to reload the Rovian Spin Cycle and shore up their coming vulnerability at the polls in 2008. Flushing away this excrement will be difficult enough if the democrats nominate Sen. Clinton as their standard bearer next year.
Leave well enough alone.
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I agree 100%. Besides, the Republicans tried to impeach Clinton to hold the moral high ground while giving Bush the room and authority to skirt around the laws of the United States and go to war with Iraq in the first place. Watching the Democrats use the same strategy simply for maintaining the moral high ground this time is ridiculous when so much needs to be done. It's a waste of time and money. So much else is at stake.
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