"There aren't the votes there, period," Rep. John Conyers said in Dearborn, MI at the American Civil Liberties Union's annual dinner. "You need 218 in the House to impeach and 67 in the Senate to convict, and 218 and 67 just aren't there, but beyond that — do you know what a boost that would give Bush if we tried and failed to convict him? He would have an outpouring of sympathy for him, we'd be discredited, and it might help elect one of his clones. Nothing is more important than stopping that from happening".
Can't argue with that logic. But the political realities of DC do not absolve BushCo of criminality.