Reply #22: Not buying it! Not buying a repuke gain from this. [View All]

You say: "If impeachment somehow came up for a vote and passed, it would surely fail to get a conviction in the Senate and then the Republicans would make political hay out of it, maybe even defeating some Democrats or holding some seats that would have been lost." I have heard this from others and I just ain't buying into this one. First off the repukes are running against the "Do Nothin' Congress" already...well this is 'somethin' and it has the backing of the majority of the electorate! (If they only knew what we DUers have known for months and years-Oh how that majority would grow into an angry monster!)

If this gets out of the Judiciary and back to the House, (although I doubt it will get back there), it will have been stamped: "Yep we agree-there be some strong potential for impeachable crimes committed here!" The media will at that point go ballistic with this! As a news item it will be somewhere between Hurricane Katrina and 9-11! (Well at least bigger than that Rev. Wright thingy!) With the electorate debating their fave articles of impeachment the Senate will be hard pressed to shut this down, ESPECIALLY because it is in an election year! Those who vote against the articles of impeachment will have to pony up their evidence exonerating bush and co... perhaps an impossible task.

So those who vote against this in the Senate will find it hard to keep their jobs when their term is over....We are deep into a 'throw the bums out' cycle as it is, how many of these repukes do you suppose are going to want to remain on the Titanic? That is how I see the political hay shaking out. In my mind, it would be GREAT if it gets defeated in the Senate...this means it actually MADE IT to the Senate and into mainstream news where it will without question turn into a bad day indeed for the repuke enablers!