Reply #44: a majority of the house will not want to aggressively pursue impeachment

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First and foremost, members of Congress are political animals. Almost immediately upon winning election, they begin working towards re-election. There will be (hopefully) a lot of new Democratic members of the House, a number of whom will come from districts that are only marginally "Democratic" and in some cases, from districts that are as, if not more, red as they are blue. These new members are going to want to show something constructive for their constituents: minimum wage, prescription drug reform, lobbying reform, stem cell research. They aren't going to demand that the Democratic leadership pursue impeachment; indeed, to the contrary, they will push for impeachment talk to be kept to a minimum, even as the House ramps up its oversight of the administration by conducting hearings and subpoenaing records and documents.