I have one thought about Bob Barr -- at a time when it was obvious that Clinton would never be convicted, Bob Barr thought that the Senate had nothing better to do than to try to force him out of office. I have always wondered if the Senate maybe could have spent more time defending the US so that 9/11 would never have happened. And of course the Senate had many other things to do as well.

My attitude on this extends to the Bush administration, by the way. Quite a few leftists would have liked to try to impeach Bush because of the many, many bad things he has done in office. My position is that wasting time in such ways is wrong and irresponsible, whether done by Democrats or Republicans. It is dumb to try to do something that will obviously fail just to make a big show. That is what Bob Barr and his friends did, and that is what Democrats did not do, and I'm glad they didn't.