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Quote by: brien  Clarence & Zee;
An impeachment hearing would clog the Congressional calendar and paralyze the agenda of the Congress. And for what? A terrible President who is leaving office by the time they could impeach him anyway? Makes no sense to sacrifice almost 2 years of otherwise valuable Congressional time and agendas for what will happen anyway. What is there to gain? |
I agree. Like I said in one of the other threads, when you consider the cost/benefit ratio of impeachment, it doesn't make sense this late in his term.
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Quote by: brien This is not quite accurate. Some Senators come up for re election on a rotating basis every two years. For example Senator Kerry may be up for relection in 2008 but Lieberman not until 2012. Even though Senators have 6 year terms, their anniversary can fall in off year elections. For example, when Lieberman was elected in 2006, (an off year election meaning it didn't coincide with a Presidential election) his re election opportunity falls in the regular year election of 2012 along with the Presidential election. Kerry was last elected to the Senate in 2002 and is up for re-election in 08.
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Actually, what I said was "The next chance to dump any of the
new senators is almost 6 years away". What I meant was, we elected a new batch of representatives this last election. If they fail to follow the will of the people, it will still be 6 years before we can vote any of these new senators out.