Impeachment: it's the cure, not the problem

I found this at Mike the Mad Biologist's blog, and you should read his comments on it, but here's the main thing:

John Nichols, in an interview with Bill Moyers, clarifies a very important--and misunderstood--point about impeachment (italics Mike's):

JOHN NICHOLS: Bill Moyers, you are making a mistake. You are making a mistake that too many people make.

BILL MOYERS: Yes.

JOHN NICHOLS: You are seeing impeachment as a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis. Don't mistake the medicine for the disease. When you have a constitutional crisis, the founders are very clear. They said there is a way to deal with this. We don't have to have a war. We don't have to raise an army and go to Washington. We have procedures in place where we can sanction a president appropriately, do what needs to be done up to the point of removing him from office and continue the republic. So we're not talking here about taking an ax to government. Quite the opposite.