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Former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova said Democrats are doing an "impeachment lite" and not a formal impeachment inquiry in order to avoid giving Republicans subpoena power. From his interview with Lou Dobbs on Thursday: JOE DIGENOVA: It's quite obvious what the Democrats are doing. They have not had a vote on the floor of the House to start a formal impeachment inquiry because if they were to have such a vote, under the House rules for impeachment, the Republicans would get subpoena power. In order to avoid giving the Republicans subpoena power, they are doing impeachment lite with these six...

Since they lost the 2004 elections, Democrats have been giving each other a tremendous amount of free advice. There will be a slew more as the 2006 midterm elections approach - plenty of expensive advice, too. Nobody has asked for mine. That is about all the motivation I need to offer some, on the house. I think the Democrats should shelve all the fancy thinking about how they need to develop a new "values vocabulary," reframe old issues in news terms, learn how to use God-talk, be more daddy and less mommy, capitalize on the Abramoff scandals or become the...