Impeachment threat is real

The impeachment threat is real, argues The Nation's John Nichols.


"Former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough had me on his MSNBC show Monday night to talk about impeachment,", "It was smart, civil discussion that treated the prospect of impeaching the president as a serious matter."


According to Nichols : " Scarborough is not jumping on the impeachment bandwagon", "He is simply treating the prospect seriously, as did CNN's Wolf Blitzer earlier in the day" , "We are nearing an impeachment moment."

"The Alberto Gonzales scandal, the under-covered but very real controversy involving abuses of the Patriot Act and the President's increasingly belligerent refusals to treat Congress as a co-equal branch of government are putting the discussion of presidential accountability onto the table from which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tried to remove it."

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