Reply #25: Party Leaders have no intention of pursuing impeachment... [View All]

Regardless if we take back the house or not.

They'll offer a few rationalizations, but the most emphasised "reasoning" will underscored with the edict that "elections have consequences" and "now we must focus on winning back the white house" ..

"Elections have Consequences, if you don't like who is in power, then you have to vote him out" was already issued from Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago on this very question.

If we are victorious with mid-term elections, all of us who have been pushing for impeachment since 2002/2003 - and have been riding that roller coaster, will be in for a free fall when we discover that our party leaders have no real intention of moving forward on impeachment.

We won't discover that until after orientation and next congress is in session, which won't be until about mid February - 2007.

There may be "investigations"... but they will essentially be dog and pony shows, with a lot of smoke and mirrors to fog the truth.

Essentially, these investigations will be hearings like the Katrina hearings, and end up not meaning anything at all. By the time "we get it" what's going on, it will be fall or winter of 2007 - just in time for the 2008 presidential campaign.

Democratic party leaders will repeat the mantra quoted above and emphasize the fact that the presidential campaign is underway and that we all need to focus our energy on that effort and "get out the vote".

In the end, there will be no impeachment.

My gut instinct tells me that Russ Feingold knows this very well, and that is why he introduced the resolution to Censure last week. Because dubya is and has been thumbing his nose at our constitution and the laws of the land and continues to do so, will continue these programs until he is made to stop. Censure may not work, but it is all that the Senators have at their disposal, given that impeachment proceedings have not begun, which should have begun back in 2003/2004 or 2005 at the very latest.

Now it's too late.