Reply #24: I think not only the Repubs but the Dems as well don't want impeachment [View All]

[Samantha]

With some reluctance, some Repubs in private have admitted impeachment of Clinton was payback for Nixon. Dems know if they go after Bush*, a political payback will await in the future.

The discussion comparing the Nixon model versus the Clinton model was interesting; however, the Clinton impeachment began as a result of the Arkansas Project. When Clinton refused to accept the George H.W. Bush* deal to back off in 1992 and allow him to have a second term, in exchange for a free ride in 1996, the decision was made to go after Clinton and get him for any reason whatsoever. Some who joined this effort later on, joined as a participant of the Nixon payback, not as a result of Clinton's failure to deal.

On the other hand, while the path to impeachment took very different roads in these two cases, there are some "lowest common denominators." When one thinks of John Dean's first best seller "Blind Ambition," those very words remind us of today's neoconservatives. Chaney, who served under Nixon, had as a main thrust of this Administration to restore to the Executive Branch all of the power formerly held by the White House prior to the Nixon resignation. Thus, the strong arm tactics we see and adversely react to, are holdovers from that era. Just as those tactics, along with Blind Ambition took down the Nixon cabal, so can those same factors adversely impact the Bush* regime. We can only hope.

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, perhaps the road to political hell is paved with Blind Ambition.