Surely you're joking. Impeachment won't happen, there are too many powerful interests that won't allow themselves to be brought down with the Administration. Patrick Fitzgerald couldn't get more than a perjury conviction against Libby for example.
Plus it doesn't make very good politics. The whole of the United States of America doesn't like to admit that it made a mistake, ever, and to impeach the President and/or Vice President would shine a light on a part of ourselves and our national psyche that we'd like to pretend just wasn't there, thank you very much.
What I think the nation as a whole is doing is hoping that the next President will play by the rules and that once the current President and his administration leave office, they won't be able to hide the depths of their transgressions. Maybe there'll even be some prosecutions, but I doubt it.
P.S> The nation is still dealing with the fact that we're not quite #1 anymore. Our military is stretched and breaking, we're locked in a middle eastern quaqmire, our national budget is in the toilet, our economy is falling apart, and don't even get me started on the dollar's slide. It's going to be an interesting time when that realization finally hits hardcore.
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Date: 2007-11-22 06:31 am (UTC)Plus it doesn't make very good politics. The whole of the United States of America doesn't like to admit that it made a mistake, ever, and to impeach the President and/or Vice President would shine a light on a part of ourselves and our national psyche that we'd like to pretend just wasn't there, thank you very much.
What I think the nation as a whole is doing is hoping that the next President will play by the rules and that once the current President and his administration leave office, they won't be able to hide the depths of their transgressions. Maybe there'll even be some prosecutions, but I doubt it.
P.S> The nation is still dealing with the fact that we're not quite #1 anymore. Our military is stretched and breaking, we're locked in a middle eastern quaqmire, our national budget is in the toilet, our economy is falling apart, and don't even get me started on the dollar's slide. It's going to be an interesting time when that realization finally hits hardcore.