Briefly, on Impeachment

I don't support impeachment. I support investigations. But really, if those investigations reveal what is suspected, I support indictment and imprisonment.

As indictment is impossible with a sitting President in office, well... there you go. However, I want no possibility for pardon. And a VP made President would likely do so.

It almost appears, with the latest signing statement allowing him to open anybody's mail, the President is daring the Democrats to impeach so that he can use all the Clinton-era arguments against them and rally public support. It's as if the lesson learned from the Clinton wars was "make them impeach you."

It's not such a ridiculous argument.

We should all be happy that the newly-named House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is headed by someone who will stop at nothing to investigate and follow the evidence wherever it goes. He also happens to be my Congressman.

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has created a new subcommittee that will tackle decisions made by the Bush administration regarding which government records should be made available to the public.

Waxman has not released his committee’s agenda for this year, and his panel has yet to organize formally, but his plan to create a subcommittee devoted to government transparency foreshadows what is expected to be a contentious debate with the administration over executive branch documents.

“We have legislative jurisdiction over [the Freedom of Information Act] and some of the other issues that relate to openness in government,” Waxman said yesterday.

Waxman is the kind of guy that attaches himself to an issue and refuses to let go. He will let the investigations play out in the interest of the country, in the interest of posterity, so that we never again put ourselves in a situation where we're fighting unnecessary wars based on shoddy evidence, where the chief executive can claim massive and expansive powers and ignore the other branches as if he were an emperor.

So, that's what I support.