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This site was honored to have over 15,000 visits in May. Please feel free to contribute comments. I’d like to hear what you think, and I’m sure others would be interested as well. 
We all criticize Nixon. So how is that we’re all doing exactly what he taught us to do?
It was Nixon who taught us to impeach a President over nothing, a triviality. Everyone always said that if he’d just admitted to Watergate, that would have been the end of it. Yet as I detailed here , big media and the leadership of both political parties have followed Nixon’s lead ever since. We’ve seen Reagan, Clinton, and now Bush, all tied up by endless debate over matters that aren’t nearly important enough to justify it. Without the threat of impeachment, those debates would be toothless, leaving our Presidents free to take care of things that deserve their attention.
Who knows if Clinton might have done a better job against Al Qaeda if he hadn’t been bogged down with a successful attempt to impeach him over a relatively minor matter?
Two things in particular contribute to this state of affairs:
Party Leadership on Both Sides. The left did it with Reagan, the right did it with Clinton, and now the left is doing it with Bush. We the people can let our leaders know that we care about our country, and we want our Presidents, whatever their political party, to be free to concentrate on the important business of our nation.
The Press. At the LA Press Club Panel on Hollywood and the media, Buzz Magazine founding editor Alan Mayer said, ”...the worst thing that ever happened to Journalism is Watergate because it turned journalists into moral heroes.” As if intoxicated by the ability of Woodward and Bernstein to help bring down Nixon, big media, ever since, has made destroying presidencies job #1. Needless to say, destroying whoever the current president is, is not a healthy top priority for our nation. Again, we the people can let the media know that we care about our country, and we want our Presidents, whatever their political party, to be free to concentrate on the important business of our nation.
