Do They Dare to Say "Impeach"?

One person's airtight legal case is another's "Stay out the Bushes."

Tim Cavanaugh | June 1, 2006

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/p> p class="COlargetext c2"> span class="c1">Former Harper ’s Editor Lewis Lapham, whose most recent cancer on the national attention span was a 5,000-word “Case for Impeachment” in the magazine’s March issue, told a Harper ’s roundtable: “The media tends to believe that the branches of government are the Democratic and Republican parties.…I think we also have to make it clear—if this turns into a partisan thing, Democrat/Republican, I would think it would do more harm than good.” (To his credit, Lapham adds, “I also think we should get over the idea that impeachment is a big deal. I mean, we should use it more often.” That’s a sentiment any good American would endorse.) o:p> /o:p> /span> /p> p class="COlargetext c2"> span class="c1">Thus, Lapham notes, we must distinguish between the Bush administration’s “criminal DNA ” and the far more famous