Frosted Mini-Wheats
The conservative kid in me fears an impeachment as a great way to hobble an already troubled government from accomplishing much of anything but being drowned in Impeachment proceedings and other legal nightmares. With a war (or two) going on, ongoing Katrina recovery and a number of important domestic issues at sensitive impasses we cannot afford to pull the rug out from under our leaders.

The liberal adult in me thinks we are already drowned in stupidty directly related to a number of idiotic and vaguely dictator-ish decisions which an impeachment might be necessary "worse" so that things may eventually "get better." The Iraq war is bullshit executed on a false and poorly thought out premise. This has cost the lives of too many Americans and an unknown (and likely staggering, "maybe 300,000!?") number of innocent, non-Americans that I cannot for the life of me think of Dubya as anything short of a war criminal.

I have been hinting at the scary "I" word here and there since 11/3/04 (the saddest day for America besides 9/11) as I just can't imagine this mess really going on for four more years. To my suprise, it all started to crumble THIS year as opposed to some point in late 2006 or 2007 as I predicted. Yet, still throughout Katrina, dwindling poll numbers, Downing Street Memos, ludicrous surpreme court nominees, anything Cheney says or does, the "plamegate" indicitment(s), the obvious lack of success in Iraq...And lord knows what I am leaving out...The word Impeachment never officialy came up. Sure, a speaker at the Downing Street Memo hearings (held in a basement room of the capitol) mentioned it but no one "important" has. Therefore, everytime I mentioned it I was met with wide-eyed, "yeah, rights." That would be impossible and with a republican controlled legislature...?

2006 could bring much change, especially if things in early 2006 continue on this current spiral. Assuming Dubya's new, "talk early and often to the people and press with a new found candor" campaign succeeds maybe the winds will subside.

Luckily, the same man who pursued the Downing Street Memo issue when no one else cared...Rep. John Conyers from Detroit...Has not given up:

Impeachment

To quote David Spade, "There I said it."

*update*
OH YEAH! It has begun...

"Ron Hutcheson, White House correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers (known as ?Hutch? to the president), observed that "some legal experts asserted that Bush broke the law on a scale that could warrant his impeachment.? Indeed such talk from legal experts was common in print or on cable news.

Newsweek online noted a ?chorus? of impeachment chat, and its Washington reporter, Howard Fineman, declared that Bush opponents are ?calling him Nixon 2.0 and have already hauled forth no less an authority than John Dean to testify to the president?s dictatorial perfidy. The ?I-word? is out there, and, I predict, you are going to hear more of it next year ? much more.?