Reply #16: Playing Devil's Advocate here, so don't flame me.

[WilliamPitt]

1. Impeachment will consume congress for the next 18 months, which means no legislation to stop the war, no legislation to raise wages, no legislation at all.

2. The war will go on regardless.

3. We might pull a Newt and screw ourselves out of the majority, which cannot happen. For now, we've stopped them from ramrodding through more Patriot Acts, etc., by having the majority. If we impeach, and the public turns on us, we'll have a GOP congress and maybe President Rudy to deal with, so as "bad" as it is now, imagine "worse." If we lose the Senate, we will do so right about the time when two or three more SCOTUS justices step down. Fancy a high court even more right-wing than the one we have now.

I want Cheney impeached, mind you - impeaching Bush is like impeaching a fern - but you asked, and that's the counter-argument.