You can't really be suggesting that congress should only hold impeachment hearings when they know they will have enough votes to impeach. And whose fault is it that they dont' have the votes, by the way? Tell it to Nancy, that's what happens when you take away power and succumb to playing politics, her little stunt of taking impeachment off the table before even taking office pretty much emasculated the democratic congress; they haven't been able to stand up to this administration on anything. But in any case, the guiding principle in opening impeachment hearings is based on the evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors being committed, in this case by the president and vice president, not politics. And assuming our elected officials, both democrats and republicans had even an ounce of integrity it would be impossible, in the light of day, not to vote for impeachment given the mountains of evidence of their criminal behavior. There isn't a constitutional scholar who hasn't acknowledged this administration has shredded our constitution and in case you hadn't realized our constitution was our single, defining point of difference, it was what made us a great country. And what a coincidence, since our constitution has been systematically violated by this administration we have been behaving no better than any other human rights abusing country - we torture people, we spy on our citizens, the executive branch lives above the law, every federal agency is just an arm of the republican party. This is the most unpopular president in history and the congress has unprecedented single digit approval ratings. And if you think just getting democrats elected is going to change anything in this country I'm afraid you really need to stop drinking the cool aid. The democrats need to take a refresher course in ethics and government and stop playing politics. They need to abide by the constitution, which they have all sworn to uphold and protect and that means impeaching this president and vice president who have committed at this point numerous crimes not to mention completely destroyed the balance of power among the three branches of government, eviscerated the process of checks and balances all of which will stand as precedent for future presidents and vice presidents. So, in a nutshell, without impeachment this administration leaves the office of the president all the powers of a monarch. Try getting that back in the bottle. And if you think, at the rate they are going, the democrats are going to be in power for the next twenty years, think again. There is a new generation of republicans already rewriting the party.

Jill