An Impeachable Offense?

This afternoon, while driving my daughter to her orthodontist appointment, the radio told me that Vice President Cheney's former chief aide says President Bush authorized the deliberate leaking of classified national intelligence (erroneous as it turned out) to a New York Times reporter to build a public justification for the war in Iraq.

I have been busy preparing for a week trip to another part of the country. I have not read a single commentary anywhere else on the web, in a newspaper or, this evening, watched a single show on television or listened to follow-up on the radio. So this is my unvarnished reaction as a simple citizen of this country.

Isn't this a high crime, not to mention a misdemeanor? How does leaking classified information to justify an unjustifiable war compare to a blow job? If Congress doesn't deal with this issue, or the American people this fall don't elect a Congress that will deal with this issue, then we are no longer living in a democracy.