Am I alone in thinking that it is outrageous for a public employee to be able to plead the Fifth Amendment? They are blessed to work for the public. Government jobs are as cushy as they come. They are generally overpaid and underworked and they have excessive benefits. More importantly, they have access to power that belongs not to them but to the people. Abuse of this power should be considered nothing less than treason. They should know on the day they accept their position that either (a) they have no right to plead the Fifth Amendment and/or (b) if they do so it means loss of their job, loss of all their benefits and that they are banished from ever again serving in the public sector—whether bureaucracy or legislature. If they choose to commit crimes then not be criminally punished for their crimes, they should lose all pension benefits, too. This is the price of the honor of working FOR and not ON the public. If you do not like this, do not sign up for government work. By the way, this should apply to elected officials at all levels, which of course ensures this could never be put into law.

There is historical precident for a Clinton-Weiner campaign, too.

This from "Intentional Irresponsibilty" by Jay Haug (over on American Thinker). "Richard Nixon resigned. Ronald Reagan said he was "'wrong" about Iran-Contra. Bill Clinton was impeached. But does anyone believe that the Obama administration has any intention of admitting wrong-doing?" We should impeach this man, the worst President in history, if only because he is psychologically incapable of shame. Besides, it would be an embarrassment to those fools in the Nobel organization.

The Obama administration is destructive, lawless and will not be reigned in. they dishonor the Constitution or the safeguards built into the system. This is Fascism, is it not?

John, you are absolutely correct. Some Republicans think impeachment is a waste of time, but this is the product of political machination rather than moral integrity. It is high time for the latter. We have a plethora of the former, and politics tends to favor the immoral.

Nuanced Republicans cower from the heat of an impeachment brouhaha. Do they really think that Dems would hesitate to impeach any Republican President? Grow some. You can't do your job and not put that job at risk.

These lawyer-louts in Washington never do anything right. What if for every pine-straw engineer who comes in we send Mexico a barrister?

Let's add "impeached" to Obama's CV, alongside "Nobel prize winner," then leave it to posterity to decide which was deserved. We need to encourage more impeachment, not less. What is the worst that can happen? Distraction-Inaction in Washington? GK Chesterton once said: "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." The same can be said for "impeached."

Medved seems concerned our elected officials are not bright enough to "dual process" an impeachment and legislation. That may well be true, for it is not clear these lawyer-louts can "single process".

It will forever be recorded that Nixon and Clinton were confronted with impeachment. There is ample room on Obama's CV for this unmeritorious distinction.