Nobody really likes Dick Cheney, but GQ doesn't really like him the most. In the March issue, correspondent Wil S. Hylton lays out the case for making Cheney the 18th federal official to face impeachment proceedings under the Constitution. "Over the past six years, as the country has spiraled into military misadventure, fiscal madness, and environmental meltdown, the vice president has not merely been wrong about the issues; he has been duplicitous, deceitful, and deliberately destructive to the American democracy," claims Hylton.

If these charges sound a bit vague and ad hominem, that's no problem. In fact, Hylton notes, impeachment has always been an essentially political tool. There are virtually no limits on what may be considered an impeachable offense, as long as a majority of the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate can agree on it.

To help speed them toward agreement, Hylton outlines six suggested articles of impeachment. These contain little new information, but taken together provide a pretty good overview of the case against Cheney: his role in corralling and touting the bad intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq; his support of "a known criminal," Ahmed Chalabi; his false assertion that he had no financial ties to Halliburton; and his defiance of a federal court's order to provide information about who consulted on energy policy.

Hylton has scored some big coups on the political front for GQ, most notably a 2004 profile of Colin Powell in which the former secretary of state and his aides aired their grievances with remarkable candor. It may seem that, by calling for Cheney's head, he and the magazine have crossed over into the world of histrionic DailyKos bloggers—but at least there's no mention of Scooter Libby or Harry Whittington.