Reply #11: I have long thought Bush deserved impeachment, but I wanted to wait until there was a chance...

[Bjorn Against]

But I just read an article in Mother Jones which referenced a John Nichols book which made a great argument that even if Bush was not ultimately impeached the hearings could do lasting damage to his career. It is a fairly obvious argument really, but I had never heard it expressed in that way before. Many supporters of impeachment were making the argument that if we moved forward the votes would come naturally once the evidence was put forward, I did not buy this argument however because members of Congress do not always vote based on what is right but rather by what will protect their own power. I was hesitant to move forward because I thought we would be defeated. Nichols' argument that we can have a victory even if we don't get every thing we want made a lot of sense however, and I think we need to move forward on this.