Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR): “Impeachment is not going to happen at this point”

Posted by Jeff Kosseff, The Oregonian

Rep. Earl Blumenauer said that while he remains “unalterably opposed” to the Bush administration, there aren’t enough votes in Congress to make impeachment a viable option.

“If I thought for one minute that simply trying to impeach George Bush would change our nation’s course, I would do it in a heartbeat, even if it was a long shot,” Blumenauer wrote in a statement on his Web site Friday. “But impeachment is not going to happen at this point. We may have a Democratic majority in Congress, but we still don’t have a progressive majority. Like it or not, it all comes down to the numbers – and right now, the numbers are simply not there.”

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