Impeaching Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors is bad politics?

in a year and a half. That's why, if this following is the reason, the dems are just as damn bad as they are...

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The main reason is obvious: The Democrats think it's bad politics. Bush is dying politically and taking the GOP down with him, and impeachment is risky. It could, so the cautious Beltway wisdom has it, provoke a backlash, especially while the war is still going on. Why should the Democrats gamble on hitting the political jackpot when they're likely to walk away from the table big winners anyway?

The pansy ass Dems that can't even stand up to the chimp on the war spending bill?

. . .in addition to being impotent gesture. I don't actually find it very surprising that they are all over the place on "cutting the funding." Americans are unified in their anger at Bush and his devastating war, but they are ambivalent when it comes to what to do about the occupation. The ambivalence is understandable. Quagmire = "no good way out"

I am mystified by their blindness to the fact that Bush and Cheney are the focus of the public's anger. Impeachment is not just the only thing capable of ending the intolerable violations of our laws and our constitution; it is the most effective means of giving voice to the public's anger. Voicing the public's anger and standing and fighting on principle ALWAYS benefit politicians who do so.

I think there is hope. In fact, impeachment may already be inevitable. They are beginning to accuse Bush in unequivocal language. Even beltway boobs like Feinstein are uttering words like "torture" and "illegal spying." The only rational reaction to such willful, blatant, and continuing crimes against our constitutional democracy is to impeach. Sooner or later they must hear themselves. (Hopefully sooner). When they do listen to themselves, they will hear how foolish they sound when they follow their descriptions of atrocities with declarations that they have no intention of DOING anything that could actually stop the atrocities.

. . .the "bad politics" belief is contradicted in items 2 and 3 of the following post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=929099&mesg_id=932483