ratbastid

While I generally agree with your analysis, this simply isn't true.

In a poll released earlier this week, 30% of Americans favor impeachment. At the height of the Clinton impeachment circus, 25% favored, and when impeachment actually happened, it was 12% in favor of it. Clinton's impeachment--a transparently partisan manouver performed largely by men who hadn't admitted the illicit blowjobs they'd gotten--never had widespread public support. Impeachment proceedings against Bush would be supported by nearly a third of Americans. Considering he was elected by about that same percentage of all Americans, I think that says a lot.

This is a different statistic than the vaunted "approval rating", but as a higher bar, I think it's even more telling. "Do you disapprove" versus "do you want the guy out of there".

Incidentally, in a Zogby poll at the beginning of the year, 52% agreed with the statement, "If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."

I don't think Bush can bluster his way out at this point. The tide is fixing to turn in congress and--at the VERY least--he'll have to seriously watch his step for the rest of his term.