Dougie,

No, the Dems ain't, ahhhhhh, morons... Sure, they might have been able to pull off an impeachment after the 2006 elections but they also knew that had they done that it would have killed their party's chances on winnin' anything in 2008 so...

...they just knuckled under knowin' that, at least for the party, it was better to not impeach than to destroy their party...

That's it in a nutshell...

And as evidence that what I am saying is true, one need look no further than the '08 elestion where Obama refused to take the McCain bait and stayed above politics-as-usaul and crushed McCain...

If one thing that came out of the Gingrich's Revolution (haha) is that the American people a fed up-to-here with partisanship... Newt and Rove lived for it but it's time has passed...

That's kinda why maybe Bush won't do a blanket pardon of Chenay and hsi buds... Bush probably sees what I see and the Dems see and that is more and more investigations at a time when the country is so messed up can only be seen as avoiding the other (note I did not say "real" here issues which affect the average guy on the street more than whether or not Cheney is a crook...

B~