The I-word has moved from the marginal to the mainstream - although columnists like Charles "torture-is-fine-by-me" Krauthammer would like us to believe that "only the most brazen and reckless and partisan" could support the idea. But until very recently, their views were virtually absent in the so-called "liberal" MSM, and could only be found on the Internet and in street protests.īut the times they are a' changin'. In the last months, several organizations, including AfterDowningStreet, Impeach Central and, have formed to urge Bush's impeachment. As Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter put it - hours after the New York Times reported that Bush had authorized NSA wiretapping of US citizens without judicial warrants - this President has committed a real transgression that "goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power." Not one official in the entire Bush Administration has been fired or indicted, not to mention impeached, for the shedding of American blood in Iraq or for the shredding of our Constitution at home. close our eyes to the potential lawbreaking.and tear an unfixable hole in our legal system." That arbiter of moral politics was incensed about the possibility of Bill Clinton escaping unpunished for his "crimes."įast forward to December 2005. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law.The other road is the path of least resistance" in which "we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us. In 1998, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, currently under indictment on corruption charges, proclaimed: "This nation sits at a crossroads. This column was written by Katrina Vanden Heuvel.
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