putting the peach in impeachment.

* highlight from the server logs: someone at bloomberg googled "abramoff bush recount." for some reason, my post is the number one hit at google. go read my post - there's a lot of interesting stuff there - not least that Abramoff's firm hired scalia's son in january 2001. i hope that bloomberg finds something in the story.

* froomkin: "The "I-word" is back. The revelation that President Bush secretly authorized a domestic spying program has incited a handful of Congressional Democrats to discuss his possible impeachment. And while continued Republican control of Congress makes such a move extremely unlikely, the word is reemerging into mainstream political discourse"

* froomkin: "Why Not Ask? Is it time for mainstream news organizations to start asking the public how they feel about impeachment?"
yay

* "On the other hand, Bush and his cronies may not have any choice. Say Abramoff rolls over on DeLay, and DeLay is suddenly looking at some serious prison time of his own. He'd be trying to think of someone that he could roll over on in his turn. If Abramoff had already provided the information on the rest of the Congressional scum, DeLay could only get a break from the prosecutors by giving them someone even more important than he is." (link)
yay

* Joe Conason: "Recklessly and audaciously, George W. Bush is driving the nation whose laws he swore to uphold into a constitutional crisis. He has claimed the powers of a medieval monarch and defied the other two branches of government to deny him. Eventually, despite his party’s monopoly of power, he may force the nation to choose between his continuing degradation of basic national values and the terrible remedy of impeachment." (link)

* jonathon schell: "If Congress accepts his usurpation of its legislative power, they will be no Congress and might as well stop meeting. Either the President must uphold the laws of the United States, which are Congress's laws, or he must leave office." (link)