Talk of impeachment is fun and all, but, as we all know, just that -- talk -- unless the scales fall from Republican eyes. I remember watching the Senate Watergate Committee hearings on TV. When time came for a vote, the single most dramatic moment was when ranking minority member Sen. Howard Baker, Republican from Tennessee, with obvious heavy heart but strength of conviction, voted to recommend impeachment. Baker, remember, though Republican, was the one who asked "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
So, is there a Republican leader in the Senate -- hell, any Senate Republican, leader or not -- from whose eyes the scales may fall? Is the machine now actually so strong that opposing it really is political suicide? Or will it take just one to say, "No, this is wrong," survive and be proved correct, and thereby enable others to do the same? Don't paint them all with same brush for a second, and maybe we can find one to work on...