Impeachment Timing is Off

Just when there seems to be a developing bipartisan consensus that Bush's policies on Iraq are a failure, it would be a mistake for the Democratic majority in Congress to undertake impeachment, says DePauw's Ken Bode. The former network journalist says impeachment proceedings would harden partisan lines, enable dead-enders to argue that opposition to the war is nothing but politics by other means, and scare Democrats who fear that a vote against Bush will be depicted as a vote against the troops.