Reply #121: Maybe because Feingold knows that Impeachment Will Never Happen?

[radio4progressives]

Impeachment is not going to happen. period, end of story.

Let's say for arugment sake that suddendly the folks who own Diebold and Choicepoint and Seqoia and such are suddenly wanting for the Democrats to be in power - and promises to hand us a victory in the mid terms in November - and so we win all 15 seats in Congress that we're desperately eyeing to achieve.

Let's say, that none of the election results are challenged because the vote tabulations matched the polling - etc. So let's say Dems have a major victory in Congress, in November 2006.

Winter recess occurs, Congress begins their new session 2 1/2 months or so later in late January or early Feburary.

But wait! President Bush is still in office! He and Karl Rove and everyone else knows that we've been chomping on the bit to begin impeachment hearings immediately ...

hmm.

Think about this for a minute. Do you honestly believe that the puppet masters are going to allow our attention to be devoted to impeachment?

Given what these people have been doing, are doing, and are capable of doing, do you honestly believe that they're not going to do everything in their power to prevent impeachment proceedings to occur by invoking fear of terrorists strikes or other events to prevent this from occuring?

And even if the Bush Co does absolutely nothing to obstruct impeachment proceedings, (yeah right) given that these proceedings take so damn long, and obstruction by the White House is their M.O., before you know it, the next (2008) election cycle will be upon us, so focus and campaigning for that will be the order and priority of the day - the new mantra will be vote a Democrat into office, and "elections have consequences" will be preached .

I think Feingold knows very well that impeachment is never going to occur, even under a Democratic party controlled Congress, given all that he knows behind the scenes, and so the very least that should be done (and can be done) to hold this administration accountable, (and even possibly to mandate a Cease and Desist order) is to introduce a resolution to Censure.

The bottom line is a Democratically controlled House of Represenatives will not yield impeachment results and that's the long and short of it.

That sad reality will have other political implications that may eventually destroy the party, and they haven't even figured that out yet.