>A question from the chuño gallery: could the republicans simply desist if
>they wanted to? Or is there some impeachment machinery in motion that has
>a life of it's own?
The machinery is definitely underway, but the speed and route are still under human control. If the Rep leadership wanted to derail it, it could, but then they'd have to worry about their backbench maniacs.
What's a chuño? It's not in my Spanish-English dictionary.
Doug