Impeachment's Back in the News

April 6, 2007
Impeachment's Back in the News

In an April 5 article, the Washington Times interviewed several members of Congress, noting along the way that Congressional Democrats report that "constituents are clamoring" for impeachment of the president.

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) is quoted as saying he gets "one call after another" calling on him to impeach the president, but he goes on to say impeachment would be "a very divisive thing...and at this point I don't see that happening."

Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of the House's most liberal members, reportedly calls impeachment pointless and a distraction from the presidential election. Diane Watson (D-CA), another of the most liberal members of Congress, says she gets calls for impeachment from every crowd she speaks to, and says that while she would support impeachment herself, it's "not a strategy our new leadership would want to start with."