Reply #30: Face the facts: impeachment is not a possibility.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

No matter how loudly you demand it, the Democrats are not going to be able to cast more that 51 votes in favour of impeachment in the Senate.

The decision they have to make is *not* "whether or not to impeach Bush", it's "whether or not to open impeachment procedings against Bush".

If they *do* open such procedings, it's completely inevitable that they will fail - there is no possibility whatsoever of 16 Republicans turning on their own party and being willing to fight the next election with the label of "traitor" tied around their neck - remember that the people Republicans care most about attracting support from are Republicans.

Calling for impeachment from the Democrats is like a child screaming at its parents "you MUST make it stop raining" - it won't do any good, and it will make people take you less seriously on other issues.