[Blake]

To come back to an old rail of the thread: Impeachment only requires a majority of the House, but a supermajority of the Senate to convict; Clinton was impeached by something like 214-212, party-line vote, and not convicted something like 55-45, again on a party-line vote.

Comes to exactly the same as what godfry said: Never going to happen. I think it is worth trying to "impeach" Bush's character in the public consciousness, to try to leave a lasting consensus that he's a phony and a grasping elitist, not a down-home morally just man. I'd like to see his character assassinated by the truth for all time.

It would be an ostensibly nonpartisan but in fact very effective Democratic organizing tactic just to reach out to, educate and discuss current affairs in enough depth with enough people that a majority of the electorate is participating in the same actual reality next time.