Bob Filner: “It is this Congress that is subverting the constitution by trivializing the impeachment process. Ken Starr has been 4…”

“It is this Congress that is subverting the constitution by trivializing the impeachment process. Ken Starr has been 4 years and $40 million investigating every part of the President's life, and we are going to embark on an open-ended investigation while the world economy is collapsing, the health care system needs reform, our own finance system is corrupt, and we will be talking for months about who touched who where. The continued investigation of the President is nothing more than a cover-up for the failure of a do-nothing Congress to address the real issues facing the American people. I am voting ``no'' on opening an impeachment inquiry. Impeachment is the gravest of offenses. In the view of the framers of our Constitution, impeachment is reserved for those who undermine the fundamental political and Constitutional structure of our nation. While President Clinton's behavior was both reckless and indefensible, it is not impeachable.”