Impeachment blues.
I was impressed by the depth in which John Nichols People named John Nichols include: - John Nichols (American writer), Author of The Milagro Beanfield War
- John Nichols (American journalist), Writer for The Nation
- John Nichols (British diplomat), British diplomat and Ambassador to Hungary
presented the impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. case ("Be Bipartisan: Impeach To accuse; to charge a liability upon; to sue. To dispute, disparage, deny, or contradict; as in to impeach a judgment or decree, or impeach a witness; or as used in the rule that a jury cannot impeach its verdict. Bush," December 2006). I was even more impressed by how much he missed the important points. Impeaching President Bush will not correct the problems he brought upon us. What's more, he did not do it alone--he had support from other Republicans who had abandoned their own party's principles, and from spineless Democrats who didn't stand up for what they believed. Impeaching him would bring us President Cheney--and how many Americans think that would solve the Iraq problem, or any of the other problems of the Bush administration? It would consume enormous amounts of energy better spent on solving extremely complex and urgent problems. It would increase partisanship rather than eliminate it. Impeachment would be an act of revenge. We have better things to do.
JEREMY GORMAN
Wilmington, Vt.
John Nichols's argument for impeachment claims to be based in political realism Realism, also known as political realism, in the context of international relations, encompasses a variety of theories and approaches, all of which share a belief that states are primarily motivated by the desire for military and economic power or security, rather than , but misses the most obvious political reality: there is no chance of convicting Bush in a Senate composed of forty-nine Republicans. With this reality, and the public's knowledge that impeachment is futile, should the Democrats invest all or most of their time in an effort that cannot succeed, while fighting a clock that is running against them? I don't think so.
GUY T. SAPERSTEIN
Piedmont Piedmont, region, Italy
Piedmont (pēd`mŏnt), Ital. Piemonte, region (1991 pop. 4,302,565), 9,807 sq mi (25,400 sq km), NW Italy, bordering on France in the west and on Switzerland in the north. , Calif.
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