Here are some reasons for the delay on the impeachment:

[hedgehog]

1.If Bush is thrown out of office, who becomes the (official) President? Cheney may have been running things from behind the scenes for years, but that is still a little different from having him in officially in charge.

2. If Bush and Cheney are out, who gets to take over the remaining years of Bush's term of office? The Republicans don't have a clear candidate. There may be a lot of behind the scenes jockeying going on that we don't know about. Maybe this is why Newt Gingrich is all of a sudden presenting himself as an elder statesman.

3. Maybe Cheney won't leave without a deal, but no one is willing to grant him a pardon up front. Look what granting Nixon a pardon did to Ford's career.

[FloridaPat]

1. There is no reason the two can't be impeached at the same time..

They are both equally guilty about the fiasco in Iraq. I think Frist is up after * & Cheney get kicked out. Also, last I heard * was trying to change the list of who succeeds whom.

One of the goals of the repubs was to destroy the Democratic party. I think it's time to put the repub party behind bars where it belongs. These people should not have a $400,000 a year federal pension. They don't even deserve a pay check.

[Nitrogenica]

2. If we push that hard now, it gives the Republicans something

to run on, the if you vote democrat those liberals will impeach Bush argument. We need a majority in the House/Senate or both before we can do that anyways.

[land of the free]

7. I agree with jhuth. It's best to lay the groundwork

now, and focus on getting more Democrats in the Senate and Congress. After November, they can really push for impeachment (and they should). If they jump at it now, there are a couple of problems:

1. Frist & buddies can block it so that nothing ever happens
2. The GOP can make it look like the angry liberals want to impeach & ruin the Presidency while we're in a time of war (the war with no end, that is) and while terrorists want to attack us. They'll say that liberals want to divert our government's attention from "protecting us from the terrarists", and we will be less safe.

I think Conyers' strategy is working well. Lay the groundwork, get the "I" word into regular discourse, and continue to show how the President is wrong, deceitful, and breaking many laws repeatedly with no remorse.

This President will someday be faced with the crimes he's committed in the name of America. It may not be this month, but it will happen. It has to.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. It may not be a wholly bad thing to have happen

Cheney would be compelled to emerge from his undisclosed location and operate in the clear, so to speak. The eye would be focussed directly upon him for the first time, and that is something he would not be able to get out from under.

[OzarkDem]

4. We still need to keep talking about it

A steady drumbeat will keep Bush's corruption on voters minds and will weaken their ability to win in November.

Dems have nothing to lose and everything to gain by keeping the issue in front of Americans.

[hedgehog]

5. Still, we have to remember, you can't beat something with nothing

I rooting for a strong anti-poverty ticket. We've been forty years in the wilderness since Bobby Kennedy was shot. It's time to come home to our roots.

[NoGOP]

6. Here you go..........

1 Vice President
2 Speaker of the House
3 President Pro Tempore of the Senate
4 Secretary of State
5 Secretary of the Treasury
6 Secretary of Defense
7 Attorney General
8 Secretary of the Interior
9 Secretary of Agriculture
10 Secretary of Commerce
11 Secretary of Labor
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
14 Secretary of Transportation
15 Secretary of Energy
16 Secretary of Education
17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs
18 Secretary of Homeland Security

[hedgehog]

8. No! not the talking skull!

Michael Chertoff