Impeachment blues.

• Author: Gorman, Jeremy
• Position: Letter to the editor

I was impressed by the depth in which John Nichols presented the impeachment case ("Be Bipartisan: Impeach 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...