[Excerpt] For the past year, as the impeachable crimes of President Bush and Vice President Cheney have mounted, Democratic members of Congress have scrambled to present a whole array of explanations for why they can’t support impeachment.
Chief among these has been the argument that “we don’t have the votes to convict” in the Senate. This has been closely followed by the argument that impeachment would “take too much time” and that it would “divert attention from the important legislative work” of the Democrats in Congress. Right behind this, and linked to it, has been the argument that “the important thing is ending the Iraq War,” and that “impeachment would interfere with that goal.” Then there has been the argument that impeachment would be “divisive” and that the voters want the Congress to “work constructively” on the nation’s problems. Finally, there has been the argument that impeachment is not necessary because Congress under the Democrats would be conducting “investigations” that would serve the same purpose of impeachment in rooting out the administration’s wrongdoings. [Read more. ]
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