He’s Impeachable, You Know (NY Times re Alberto)

[pinkpops]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/opinion/03bowman.html
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by Frank Bowman is a law professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Impeachment is in bad odor in these post-Clinton days. It needn’t be. Though provoked by individual misconduct, the power to impeach is at bottom a tool granted Congress to defend the constitutional order. Mr. Gonzales’s behavior in the United States attorney affair is of a piece with his role as facilitator of this administration’s claims of unreviewable executive power.

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That the president has the constitutional power to do these things does not mean he has the right to do them without explanation. Congress has the right to demand explanations for the president’s managerial choices, both to exercise its own oversight function and to inform the voters its members represent
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[Fridays Child]

1. Damn impeachment fatigue. Full speed ahead!

[YankeeFan]

2. The Editorial is right

As much as it pains me, just look how long it took the Repunks to impeach President Clinton. Before he was even sworn in there were cries to impeach him through the Whitewater Scandal. And then much later came Monica and her blue dress. It's almost too late to impeach. If stupidity was a criminal offense, sure. But it isn't