Reply #66: The Repubs could beat us to the punch. . .

[pat_k]

. . .and force Bush and Cheney to resign before the Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leadership even gets started. (Don't underestimate the anger of reactionaries -- they revel in accusation and punishment and are getting angrier at Bush by the day.)

Of course, you are right. Hearings of all sorts would be part and parcel of "recruiting colleagues" but my point is that we DO NOT know how things will unfold -- the standard predictions and "conventional wisdom" are wrong far more often than they are right.

The process could be long, or it could happen with lightening speed.

But it will not happen if our leaders keep refusing to publiclly accuse Bush and Cheney of their crimes.

And. as I said in http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2458812&mesg_id=2462961">this post

. . .Perhaps a case can be made that the benefits of taking up the fight for impeachment are outweighed by the risks of doing so, but I have yet to hear one that holds up. I have found that a lot of people on "our side" -- and you may or may not be one of them -- have given little or no thought to the benefits of action. They've just sort of "soaked up" the conventional wisdom that "something very bad' will happen if Dems stand up for X. (Where has been Alito filibuster, January 6th, Impeachment, War Criminals Protection Act. . . the list is tragically long and getting longer all the time). . . http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2458812&mesg_id=2462961">More