Reply #30: For a Senate convction, more than a dozen REPUBLICAN votes are needed [View All]

For that to happen, the public and the media would have to be calling overwhelmingly to put an end to a prolonged constitutional crisis with impeachment.

The constitutional crisis may have just begun a week ago with hush-clmency for Libby. All the Sunday talk-show media panel guests but Van Den Heuvel (The Nation) parroted Republican talking points.

Yes to an impeachment vote in the House, but only when the time is right. Many Congressional hearings on Treasongate, US-Attorneygate, and the other WH scandals, plus the appointment of special investigators, has to come first. A premature impeachment vote that falls short could backfire and sweep Fred Thompson into the WH as Dubya's successor, on charges that the Democrats simply have criminalized politics.