Is Bush trying to get himself impeached?

President George W. Bush only has a year and a half left in office. At this point in his tenure, it'd be silly for the Democratic majority in Congress to attempt such a long and tedious process, right? Maybe, but Bush certainly is upping the ante for impeachment on a weekly basis. Not long ago, head speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that impeachment was off the table. I'm curious on if she's wavered any from that stance in the past week.

Polls indicate an ever increasing approval for impeaching the president. Over the past few months, that number has steadily increased from about 1/3 or 33% to almost 1/2 or 50%. Even more people support an impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

From an illegal war, to the numerous lies surrounding the war, to the wiretapping scandal, to the Downing Street Memo, to the Gonzales scandal, to torture claims, to lifting Habeas Corpus right from certain individuals, to decided that Scooter Libby's consequence was too excessive and removing the 30-month prison sentence from the "excessive" punishment brought forth by the grand jury, Bush and Cheney are staking high claims to being impeached.

In recent weeks, the President has seen his unpleasant approval rating drop to modern record lows, as he now sits anywhere between 26-32%. Just over 1 in 4 to just under 1 in 3 people approve of the President and that was prior to the latest controversial decision made by Bush. I would not be surprised to see those ghastly numbers drop even further in the next week or so.

Bush better watch himself (figuratively speaking, although I can picture him doing that in the literal sense on a regular basis), or else Pelosi and the Democants may grow enough backbone to send him out the door. The "honorable" thing would be to do what Countdown host Keith Olbermann suggested last week during his Special Comment, for both President Bush and Vice President Cheney to resign, but for some reason, I just can't see that happening. Perhaps if the approval rating drops to record numbers (lower than Nixon's 23% approval), it will be a possibility, but not until then and even then, I wouldn't place any bets in favor of Bush and Dick resigning.