Reply #55: Plenty of smoking guns! But not enough votes in the Senate, and perhaps .. [View All]

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.. too little time for the long, even-handed, thorough investigations required as prelude to any politically acceptable bill of impeachment.

There's almost certainly no point removing a president six or eight months before an election, which means that a Senate trial would have to conclude by about December 2007 and hence would have to start by August or September 2007; but that probably means that from the beginning of January the House would have to make impeachment-related work its top priority.

And getting two-thirds of the Senate to agree will require some really foul exposure, since the current crop of Republicans have largely shown themselves to be Bushbots.