Karl Rove says the Clinton impeachment was dignified.  I doubt that any impeachment anywhere was ever dignified.  They all sink to the lowest possible level of mudslinging.  All are screeched, lied about, exaggerated upon, pulled this way and jerked that, stretched far beyond anything so dignified as dignified. Impeachment is the failure of politics.  It's politics at its worst, undeclared secret war breaking into the open.  Traditions go by the boards; old understandings rend and fracture; people once friendly turn uncivil, then nasty, then vicious.  Old scores fan new flames.  Old wounds rip open and take on hot, vengeful new life.  Ultimately, all trust dissipates in an environment of ultra-suspicion and doubt, making it ever harder to push ahead with the people's business.  The longer it drags out, the deeper the damage, the more unforgotten the double-crosses and unforgiven the...(Read Full Post)