Make no mistake - he knew exactly what he was doing. For me, that is the overriding lesson of Impeachment Part 2.

My wife says the blog is increasingly "ragy" and dark and angry. Some commenters countered that I should be angry, that the unfairness and injustice of everyday life in America warrant it.

And now we must clean up the mess.

It's like what Tom Cruise and friends did to the house in Risky Business. You expected the kitchen to be messy. But you didn't know that they destroyed the house.

It was - to steal the words of the great Vermont/NY Times writer Dwight Garner - "like a sleeping limb was tingling back into action."