What is behind so many prominent democratic leaders

[mmonk]

protecting the administration from being held accountable for its many impeachable offenses through the impeachment process? There is something I'm not getting, something I must not be seeing. Any clues anyone?

[yourout]

1. Blackmail

Rove has more dirt on these guys than an army of Heidi Fleisses.

[RC]

2. Anthrax, small planes for two.

[jwirr]

3. Maybe a lack of votes in the Senate.

[whistle]

4. Follow the money, Felix Rohatyn, a neocon fascist implanted

...into the Democratic Party

[KoKo]

5. Check this post out....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x680518

:hi: they're working on it all...and Waxman, too!

[OHdem10]

6. It is probably something so simple

as: A reaction to the Nixon Impeachment.

There are people who believe the Nixon Impeachment
harmed the country. When Iran Contra occurred,
a group went to Leaders and said there will
be no impeachment. That situation was a Friday
evening dump and hardly discussed again.
When Clinton was in trouble, the Senate
stood their ground.

I will never forget a comment by Sam Donaldson
formerly ABC for years. Sam was on C-Span
and someone threw out a question. Sam's
response. In this country, the President
will not go down. Others around him may
fall but not the President. This is the
way it is folks. He gave no further explanation.
His tone and the seriousness of his comment
were so emphatic--it was seared in my memory.

When one thinks about it, Impeachment could
become a political tool--very unhealthy
one at that.

[DCKit]

7. If it keeps them from pulling this kind of shit, then it's a political tool that's good for the US.

Needless to say, I think impeachment is just the appetizer in this particular case.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. The problem with that theory is that Nixon was not impeached.

He might have been, if he had stuck it out, but he folded so as to protect the invisible government's power structure.

The invisible government that moved to seize power by getting Ronnie Rayguns elected.

It's called the BFEE.

[mmonk]

9. Yep, he was asked to walk and did so

knowing if he didn't, what was to come.