Jesse Jackson is more incoherent than usual in his Chicago Sun-Times column yesterday. He spent the first few hundred words screeching about how talk of impeachment is merely a desperate attempt to demonize Democrats by "the right-wing noise machine and their spear carriers in the mainstream media." According to Jackson, the charge is purely a political ploy to rouse Republicans for the election, and there's no truth to it - despite what John Conyers might say on his web site.

Toward the end of the piece, however, Jackson asserts that Bush has been shredding the Constitution with sweeping claims of executive power and that "a Democratic Congress would have a constitutional duty to investigate and challenge the president's claims." Jackson continues, "investigating potential high crimes and misdemeanors isn't partisan. It isn't about ''settling scores.'' It's about protecting the Constitution and preserving the republic and the rule of law."

So which is it? Is talk of impeachment just a Republican effort to demonize Democrats and scare voters for this fall's election, or do Democrats feel investigations are warranted into potential "high crimes and misdemeanors" by the President? And if it's the latter, how on earth can pointing out that fact be considered "demonization"?