Ok, I'll sign off on the death warrant.

I have been on cloud nine since the elections, as many of you may have guessed. Yay, America. Finally some justice. Finally, some hope for our future.

It will be interesting to see just what the Democrats will do with their new power. Don't forget that Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives after they won big in the elections of 1998. He was impeached in the House in December of that year, 3 months after the elections. The actual impeachment fell short, as you probably remember, of its 2/3 majority in the Senate.

Clinton's impeachment never really turned out to be what its namesake promised: he was only censured for having lied about a question under oath (a question that never should have been asked, but I will not digress to that point...) Republicans felt, in spite of not being able to actually oust Clinton from office, that they had been vindicated and that the symbolic meaning of censure had worked. Analysts say, though, that there was a backlash from the Republicans for abusing their new-found power in that they ended up losing seats in the next election. I am not sure about that, but history does have a way of giving perspective.

At any rate, the point of this rambling is to point out that the impeachment proceedings could backfire, in spite of my ardent desire to see Bush punished for the bad track that he has led us on--bringing us into a war with no end in site simply because he had a personal bone to pick with Saddam (Saddam planned an assassination attempt of Bush Sr.)

Ok, what am I saying? It would totally be worth it to see the self-proclaimed 'decider' on the stand stuttering before the court of the people.