Reply #10: We have more time. There is nothing in the Constitution that says that the legal maneuver has to be

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Completed with the clock running out as a new election occurs.

In other words, you could conceivably bring Bush or Cheney up for impeachment in the year 2010 if you wanted.

The only clock that runs is on their mortality. Impeachment efforts would end, for instance, if Cheney's heart finally ticks its last. (As unbelievable as it seems, the man supposedly does have a heart.)