Reply #38: There are more important things than impeachment. [View All]

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Even if the Dems did have the votes they'd need to guarantee a conviction, the impeachment process would tie up the government for months, or even years. Do you think the Republicans will all of a sudden start playing nice in the courtroom just because it's in a great big venue? Hell, no! They'll pull every sleazy trick in the book, and drag the whole thing out until everyone's completely sick of it.

And meanwhile, all the problems plaguing the American people, many of whom voted Democrat for the first time in their lives yesterday because they were desperate for any kind of a change, will be ignored because the majority party in Congress is wasting all their time, energy, and resources on a court battle whose ultimate outcome won't change a bloody thing. And things will only get worse for everybody. Oh sure, you'll prove to the nation that George W. Bush was beyond a doubt complicit in war crimes, treason, contempt of congress, and Gawd knows what else. But that won't make a scrap of difference to the single mom who can't pay her kid's medical bills, or the engineer who hasn't been employed in three years, or the soldiers who are being forced to kill and be killed thousands of miles away from home for no good reason.

The Democratic Party's one and only objective is to help the American people, and undo the harm done by this maladministation. Justice must be seen to be done, absolutely, but in this case it's not worth the expense, not yet. Meanwhile, keep up the investigations. Seek out all of the GOP/PNAC/FNORD secrets, and drag them into the light for everyone to see. That should be the real goal of impeachment anyway; whether or not W himself actually ends up in jail isn't really important.