WP Congressional Reporter Remarks on Censure and Impeachment

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From an online chat today with the Washington Post's Congressional Reporter, Shailagh Murray-

Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer provided a sensible discussion into the question of impeaching President Bush in yesterday's newspaper. It seems to me that outside the beltway the issue of censoring and impeaching the President is being treated without national panic, but within the beltway it is a radioactive subject that no one outside Conyers or Feingold will approach. My question: is this something on which the public may be ahead of Congress?

Shailagh Murray:.....Remember a while back, when the public was starting to go negative the war, but no one in Washington believed it, and it was considered radical to even suggest we'd ever leave the place?

I am reminded of that moment as I see all these folks squirm over the censure idea. Contrary to what you might expect of people who are willing to run for office, politicians are generally risk adverse, and don't like being first on anything controversial.

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1. This disconnect reminds me of the Clinton impeachment, when the public

gave him very high approval numbers in the polls, but Congress was rabid.

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2. Kick