nixon cut it off by resigning. and clinton, the judgment was that his behavior was reprehensible but didn t rise to the level of removal. now, here we have a dispute about the facts and about whe s whether facts matter. you know, if i were the democrats, i would be looking at the impeachment that neither gene nor i is old enough to have covered and that was andrew skrons. and johnson. and i think that s the democrats paradigm that probably they would think would be their deepest desire, that is, that the impeachment fails in the senate but the presidency is destroyed. and that s the stakes that we re in right now. i thought the post story was fascinating. i read it just before we came on. but i frankly don t see that as something that the republicans