While I realize this is a minority view here, I think Michigan Representative Conyers gets it right in
this editorial in the Washington Post. The money quotes are after the jump:
It was House Republicans who took power in 1995 with immediate plans to undermine President Bill Clinton by any means necessary, and they did so in the most autocratic, partisan and destructive ways imaginable. If there is any lesson from those "revolutionaries," it is that partisan vendettas ultimately provoke a public backlash and are never viewed as legitimate.
So, rather than seeking impeachment, I have chosen to propose comprehensive oversight of these alleged abuses. The oversight I have suggested would be performed by a select committee made up equally of Democrats and Republicans and chosen by the House speaker and the minority leader.
The committee's job would be to obtain answers -- finally. At the end of the process, if -- and only if -- the select committee, acting on a bipartisan basis, finds evidence of potentially impeachable offenses, it would forward that information to the Judiciary Committee. This threshold of bipartisanship is appropriate, I believe, when dealing with an issue of this magnitude.
There are a lot of my fellow Democrats who have said, in so many words, that unless a candidate comes out clearly and unequivocally for an immediate impeachment resolution, they're staying home. They use charming words like "Republicans' bitch," and "wimp."
I hope they'll reconsider.