The I-Word

Re: below post, here’s something else. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman is predicting that 2006 will be “the angriest, most divisive season of political theater since the days of Richard Nixon” (ugh), and that we are going to be hearing much more of the “I-word.” He also notes:

For months now, I have been getting e-mails demanding that my various employers (Newsweek, NBC News and MSNBC.com) include in their poll questionnaires the issue of whether Bush should be impeached.

Not so long ago, activists were having to raise money to pay pollsters to ask questions about impeachment. Now, in the middle of Fineman’s story is a link to a live vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?

Here are the results when I just cast my vote:


No doubt the vote is skewed by people who are reading a story titled Spying, the Constitution — and the ‘I-word’, but it's notable, no matter on which side of the aisle one stands, that the question is now being asked.