Democrats have run Congress for 20 days. So why haven't they impeached Bush and Cheney yet for all of their crimes?

Bush is hitting new lows in every poll. So what does that mean for his Presidency? Here's MSNBC's Mark Murray:

Nearly two-thirds of Americans appear to have given up on success in Iraq and also on his presidency...

a whopping 65 percent believe that Bush is facing a longer-term setback from which he’s unlikely to recover. That’s compared with 25 percent who think he’s facing just a short-term setback, and 7 percent who believe he’s facing no setback at all.

What’s more, only 22 percent say they want the president taking the lead in setting policy for the nation. Fifty-seven percent say they would prefer the Democratic-controlled Congress holding the reins.

“The public really says, ‘I just think it’s over,’” [Democratic pollster Peter] Hart says of Bush’s presidency. “If we had a British parliamentary system, there would be a call for a vote of no confidence. Essentially what the poll is, is a vote of no confidence.”

Someone please tell Peter Hart that we have an American Congressional system and the remedy for a corrupt, lying, dictatorial Presidency is called Impeachment. And since both Murray and Hart run polls, they should ask the American people if they want impeachment! (Mark.Murray@nbc.com, phart@hartresearch.com)

Senate Intelligence Committee chair Jay Rockefeller will finish the committee's aborted investigation into the administration's Iraq War lies.

Rockefeller said that finishing it is "not going to be particularly pleasant." But, he said, he will make sure that the investigation, known as Phase II, is completed...

Rockefeller said he also plans aggressive oversight of President Bush’s detention of enemy combatants, his domestic surveillance programs and other subjects, adding that he is prepared to use his subpoena power to get the documents he needs from the administration....

"If it comes to that, yes, I will," he said. "I hope it doesn’t. But every time the president says, ‘Come counsel with me, let me hear your views about the war’ — which I’ve done — then says, ‘I’m going to do exactly what I want regardless of what the Congress says’. . . that doesn’t exactly fill me with the warmth of optimism."

Me neither.

Everyone calls it the "Scooter Libby Trial," but from day 1 it looks like Dick Cheney is really the defendant (MSNBC via Atrios):

Even for people that have been following this case closely, the information coming out about VP Cheney will strike many people as astounding. First of all, the prosecutors made it clear that the evidence is going to show that the first person to inform Scooter Libby that Valerie Wilson was undercover at the CIA was VP Cheney.

OK but Libby had a top secret security clearance so that was no crime.

The prosecuters will also show that it was VP Cheney who directed Scooter Libby on how to handle the media inquiries on the Wilsons, on Joe Wilson's criticisms, that was a violation of protocal. In addition, prosecutors are alleging that VP Cheney himself wrote out for Scooter Libby what he should say to one of the crucial reporters in the case and it was during that conversation with the reporter when Scooter Libby gave the confirmation to that reporter that Valerie Wilson was undercover at the CIA.

Uh oh, Cheney participated in (and possibly led) the criminal conspiracy to use the media to out Valerie Plame. That's pretty serious, but it gets worse:

There was other information that was damaging to the Vice President concerning the State of the Union and the false claim that was made. The prosecutors say the evidence will make it clear that VP Cheney asked the Director of the CIA George Tenet to take complete responsiblity for the mistake and to make it clear that the VP and the president were not involved...

Also, the special prosecutor claims that Libby destroyed a note which would have showed the Vice President's early involvement in this case.

Uh oh, now we also have two counts of coverup. Will Cheney beat Bush to the impeachment dock, or will Bush have to throw Cheney overboard to save his sinking ship?

That's what the Bigfoot Pundits are saying, according to Digby:

[MSNBC's] Norah O'Donnell is asking Andy Card and Leon Panetta if the president is going to have to ask Dick Cheney to resign as a result of what's being alleged at the Libby Trial. (They both punted.)

Poor Scooter was sacrificed to protect Bush's Rasputin, Karl Rove. Are the White House criminals turning against each other? This could get very interesting!