We must exercise that duty responsibly. At a bare minimum, that means the president's accusers must go beyond hearsay and innuendo and beyond demands that the president prove his innocence of vague and changing charges. The must provide clear and convincing evidence of specific impeachable conduct. This they have failed to do. If you believe the president's admission to the grand jury and to the nation of an inappropriate sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky and his apologies to the nation were not abject enough, that is not a reason for impeachment.
Contrition is a remedy for sin and is certainly appropriate here.
But while insufficiency of contrition may leave the soul still scarred, unexpiated sin proves no crimes and justifies no impeachments. Some say that if we do not impeach the president, we treat him as if he is above the law. He is subject to the criminal law, to indictment and prosection when he leaves office like any other citizen, whether or not he is impeached. The gentleman's time has expired. And if the Republican leadership allows a vote, he would likely by the third president in U.S. history and the first since 1848 to be censured by the Congress.