Every senator's job is to impeach Bush-Cheney; they are supposed to be a check on the power of the other branches of government and that is the power they have been given to address a loose cannon President. Its not an optional priviledge; its the obligitory duty they swore to when they took office. It's Obama's responsibility just as much as every other senator. But why should he take the politcal heat alone?
The answer is he shouldn't, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't do his job, any more than it means Hillary shouldn't do hers. What it means is that the left in general needs to get out of the politics game and do what is right for its own sake. For a hundred years "conservatives" have proven they will make continuous in-roads towards establishing an oligarchy by playing politics. Political expedience is not only the curse of the country, its also a game the left will continue to lose overall, regardless of regular swings in conservative-liberal electoral success. The only way this country is headed in any direction other than oligarchy or civil war is if lefties start having the nerve to really stand up for what's right. The so-called "right" is never going to.
The deceased in Iraq, especially our own young men and women, deserve justice for the flagrantly criminal acts involved in creating this atrocity. Every liberal who says otherwise is proving themselves just another member of the one ruling party of America, the Republocrats. I'm sorry if my language seems strong, but more people need to start standing up for what's right and not just their own interests if we're going to keep the creeping decline of American righteousness from becoming a free-fall. And in a free, just country public servants act on their obligation to prosecute corrupt politicians.
I'll probebly vote Democrat regardless, but I don't expect Obama will do anything other than Clinton did: make a few minor improvements, a few major mistakes, and then hand the country back to the Republicans. But iIt might help though if his supporters held him to the standard he pretends to represent now, instead of just abandoning him later when they realize they were fooling themselves all along.
Impeachment, as of May 2008, is a silly issue. There are abundant grounds for impeachment and removal, but Pelosi took impeachment off the table because it would be meaningless at this point, and it would crowd out all of the other issues which CAN help the Dems win in November. The Dems want Bush in the White House -- he reminds everyone why the GOP needs to get whupped in November. And who knows? Maybe Bush will pull another bonehead move and give the Dems even more states in November.
And the tie-breaker question: if Bush is removed, who takes over?