The difference being that libs are too cowardly to apply the same standards to Republicans that the GOP does to Dems.
You may be right, gopher. However, I don’t think Bush impeachment was worth it, Democrats would have paid too high a price for the attempt.
First, the attempt would not have been successful. Democrats had the slimmest of majorities in the senate (51 to 49), and 67 votes just were not there. Second, they saw the terrible mistake Republicans made in going after Clinton. While Republicans tried to throw Clinton out for sexual peccadilloes, Democrats would have gone after Bush for much greater crime (leading the country into a war on false premises, which resulted in the death of several thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis).
Also, I think chances war very high that if Democrats had tried to impeach Bush, his popularity would have gone up. That is what happened to Clinton. When Americans saw that Republicans were trying to remove Clinton for political advantage, that they were abusing impeachment process, Clinton’s popularity started to rise. By the end of impeachment process, his popularity was in high 60s and stayed there. Same thing might have happened to Bush.
In fact, if they had tried to impeach Bush, I seriously doubt that they would have achieved the spectacular victory that they did in 2008. Just as Republicans had a terrible, disastrous election in 1998 (they lost seats instead of making substantial gains), Democrats would have had the same in 2008.
Obama may still have been elected, I don’t know. But they probably would have lost the Senate and perhaps House as well. It is quite possible that Obama would have faced a Republican Senate and/or House.
So whatever Bush’s crimes, Democrats were wise not to go after Bush. Impeachment is the nuclear option, and should not be used for trivial reasons (as Republicans did in 1998 or to try to gain political advantage (as they tried in 1998.
And suppose by some miracle they had managed to impeach, convict Bush and get him out of the White House. What then? Darth Vader himself would have been the President. He would have been much worse than Bush, he was the chief architect of the Iraq war.