Reply #85: The committees are proceeding with investigations

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If or when they come up with impeachable, actionable evidence of a crime they may well recommend impeachment proceedings, vote to send the question to committee.

It's just a dumb strategy that some are promoting to wave the prospect around like a banner before then as if our Democratic legislators' every action was about taking Bush out. She made a strategic decision to play down the prospect, but I don't know too many Democrats who think she'd stand in the way when CONGRESS has gathered the evidence. It's all well and good to say that the evidence is already in the public domain, but impeachment is a political action, not necessarily a legal one. That's to our benefit if there's a move to insulate the upper leadership of the WH from actual 'crimes'. The evidence gathered in the Congress will be a mix of political and legal, all leading to the conclusion that the president or the other target(s) can't be restrained or corrected by conventional means. That has to be demonstrated in CONGRESS for any impeachment to be successful.

That process is a mere seven or so weeks old.