Plebicide
Never mind the Republican attack on Clinton. What about the Republican attack on us?
"I’m a Burkean, as some of my votes [e.g., for NAFTA] indicate," says Howard Berman, the San Fernando Valley Democrat who serves on the Judiciary Committee. "But a vote for a presidential impeachment is the only vote in the American system where the argument ‘I’m voting my conscience’ has no meaning. It nullifies an election."
And now, the nullification of an election is upon us. It is payback time, for Nixon, for Bork, for all the indignities of the ’60s. Never mind the public’s recoiling at the GOP’s government shutdown, its rejection of Republican neo-Puritanism and hyperpartisanism in the last two elections, its likely displeasure at having its electoral will overturned. What was said of the Bourbon monarchs when they returned, vengefully and briefly, to govern France after the revolution and Napoleon most surely applies to the Republicans today: "They have learned nothing — and forgotten nothing."
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