Impeachment

I just posted this as a comment, but since the topic keeps popping up, I thought I make it a broader post.

Here's my basic problem with impeachment:

Unless you have 67 votes in the Senate ready to convict, it's utterly a waste of time, and gesture politics at its worst.

Tell me who the 16 Republican Senators are who would be willing to vote for conviction. Name names.

And, yes, I said this throughout the Clinton impeachment (with the parties reversed).

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My secondary problem with impeachment was, for a long time, you had to go deep into the line of succession to find a decent human being (Norm Mineta, who has since retired).

Admittedly, the number of people needing to be removed will become shorter sometime in January.

Here's a hint:

Right now on the Seattle Times' front page is this photo caption:

Dream washes away in minutes

As a Toyota Land Cruiser teeters on the concrete, Mike Lovell cautiously examines where the Raging River — swirling just beyond the doors — destroyed the floor of friend Mike Nichols' garage. Nichols' house used to be more than 70 feet from the river before floodwaters rose on Tuesday.

OK, call me crazy but... When the river in question is named the "Raging River"...

Um, mebbe it's not a good idea to build nearby?