Reply #31: You may be right (or not), but in any case it is beside my point.

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I was only responding to the poster's apparent assumption that the entire constituency is behind censure - and I strongly believe that's not true. So if a rep has to think of their constituency, they will not necessarily take the position a typical DU poster takes.

Anyway, to your point -

But what does censure do?

Isn't it just an admonishment with no consequences?

In Clinton's case, censuring him still could have damaged others in the party. In Bush's case, the members of his party are scurrying away from him as fast as they can already. So what damage can we inflict?

Meanwhile, will we put ourselves in a situation where impeachment is moved out of reach? THAT would be a bad thing.

I would much rather have the option of impeaching Bush in 2007 - for his very real crimes - than censuring him in 2006 - especially since censure is doomed to failure if we don't own the Senate.