Kerry's impeachment joke

heres Murdoch's The Australian:

"WHEN failed presidential candidate John Kerry quipped in a Washington bar last week that impeaching George W. Bush might be an option if the Democrats regained control of Congress at next year's mid-term elections, he was speaking in jest.

But that was before The New York Times revealed how the President had secretly authorised the National Security Agency to spy electronically on possibly thousands of US citizens without the court-sanctioned warrants needed to make such surveillance legal.

Now, with a furious debate raging over the extent of executive authority in the US and White House efforts to defuse the scandal becoming more and more desperate, the I-word is beginning to gain wider currency. Suddenly Senator Kerry's little joke is a joke no more."