I'm reading through the transcript of the Moyers interview, and I just came across a really important point, that I think is worthy of its own diary. Here's the point --
Impeachment is not a Constitutional crisis.
Jump below the fold for why ...
Down toward the bottom of the transcript (which you can find here), Moyers refers to impeachment as "taking an ax to the head of government," and both Fein and Nichols become agitated at what they perceive as a gross misunderstanding.
Here's the money quote (emphasis added):
JOHN NICHOLS: Bill Moyers, you are making a mistake. You are making a mistake that too many people make. ... You are seeing impeachment as a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis. Don't mistake the medicine for the disease.
In other words, putting impeachment back on the table, and back into Congressional conversation, is not provoking a Constitutional crisis. It is answering the Constitutional crisis that has ALREADY BEEN PROVOKED by the actions of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzales.
Impeachment is the medicine -- strong medicine, to be sure, but the medicine prescribed by Dr. Franklin and his friends for when the President decides he wants to be King. And by calling for impeachment to begin, we are asking that Congress apply the cure that's prescribed, instead of hoping that the disease will go away on its own.