Molly Ivins: "Impeach the Sombitch!"

Molly Ivins on the destruction of the Constitution, including a comparison of two "racial minority Texas lawyers": pipsqueak stonewaller Alberto Gonzales and Barbara Jordan, unlikely hero of the Nixon impeachment.

Barbara Jordan observed: "(Impeachment) is designed to 'bridle' the executive if he engages in excesses. ... The Framers confined in the Congress the power, if need be, to remove the president in order to strike a delicate balance between a president swollen with power and grown tyrannical, and preservation of the independence of the executive. ... 'A president is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution.'"