I recently attended a raucous town hall meeting in Brooklyn, billed as an end-the-war event. As it turned out, 90% of the questions were about impeachment, not the war(s). Three U.S. Congress members attended: Jerrold Nadler, Anthony Weiner and Yvette Clarke. Nadler and Weiner expressed a view on the politics of 2008 that showed me 2004 still rules in the halls of Congress. They have not fully digested 2006, let alone 2008. So I took another stab at explaining impeachment to them in a long letter to Nancy Pelosi (odd format, I know, but I like the personal approach). I tried to review the impeachment arguments in a 2008 context, hoping to crack their 2004 lens. My support for impeachment is based on policy and principle more than electoral politics, but the total concentration on politics at the town meeting made me think more deeply about what the focus of electoral politics in 2008 should be. Part 1, posted yesterday, was a review of the policy aspects for and against impeachment. Part 2 is my take on impeachment politics 2008, below.
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