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Daily Archives: July 6th, 2007

How are we doing?

Today I consulted my Library of America volume of James Madison’s writings, looking for one thing, and chanced upon something else, that I thought I’d pass on. As any student of American history knows, the revolutionary generation, an intensely partisan bunch, nonetheless had a fear of parties, which they sometimes called factions. They were concerned […]

Impeach Dick, then George

A new poll finds that 54% of Americans favor impeaching Dick Cheney, against a mere 46% that favor impeaching Bush. There’s something to be said for going after Dick first. He’s so massively unpopular. That 54% number could easily increase if it was tied to the argument that impeaching Cheney was a way to put […]