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[kpete]

[Kagemusha]

1. I'm sorry, the 3rd paragraph there is complete junk.

I've read enough about impeachment to understand that impeachment's ONLY use is as a political process, and for that reason alone, its only use is for a political purpose. If the Founders wanted the Chief Justice to preside over trials for a sitting President without the process of impeachment preceding it, they could have easily designed such a system. They did not.

I've said it before and I now say it again: Congress has the power to impeach and the power NOT to impeach, and by NOT impeaching, it implicitly approves of this President's abuses of power as within the best interests of the nation to openly tolerate and quietly condone. Therefore not impeaching is also for a political purpose. It cannot be otherwise.

Impeachment was never meant to be a judicial process in and of itself. As the Presidency goes, the real issue is not individual wrongdoing, but the direction of the country, a country which democratically elects its leaders.

[HereSince1628]

2. There is no doubt we have passed the point where questions must be asked

Carl Bernstein and all the others are right.