Letters to the Editor
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Two other views
One, this is not a contract with America (nudge, wink). This is a statement by a politician. Which means it's for a purpose. It could very well be nothing more than a smart ploy to deny the GOP a piece of November campaign ammunition, to be reversed once the Dems win back a house or two ("Did I say impeachment wasn't on the table? Silly me...").
Two, the Democrats realize that there is no stronger poison for the Republican Party or the conservative movement right now than Bush. As viscerally satisfying and Constitutionally justifiable as it would be to see him driven from office in disgrace, they know there's no better way to put a stake through the heart of the GOP than to leave the idiot in the White House through 2009. Unless he grows a brain by then, his approval rating will be about 6% (Minutemen, Dominionists and Fox News employees) and congressional Republicans will be screaming for him to resign.