The thing is, impeachment without getting a conviction — two-thirds vote needed in the Senate — wouldn’t stop Bush. But it would take up all the remaining time of the Democrats. Is Bush able to be tried after he leaves the White House? He won’t be impeached, but how could anybody who’s done so many things wrong, and so many wrong things, not be guilty of some crime?
To let the acts by Bush stand without any challenge will encourage future right-wing presidents to seize even more power. That’s assuming we see the end of this long nightmare next year. We see now that our Constitution sadly lacks the means to prevent what Bush has been doing for more than six years. Unless the opposing party has the votes necessary to provide a real threat of impeachment, there are no means to prevent what Bush is doing, has done, and will continue to do.
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