Gene Healy Says Removing Bad Presidents From Office Should Be Easier

Last
week, in an article for Vanity
Fair, “that woman,” Monica
Lewinsky, forced Bill, Hill and the rest of us to take a look
back. The real scandal, says Gene Healy, is that our system makes
it far too hard to remove a president. Our presidential system of
government lacks important “safety valves” present in parliamentary
regimes. The president’s fixed term makes it nearly impossible to
remove him. We manage fewer than one presidential impeachment per
century, and in 225 years, the Senate has never successfully
removed one.

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