That will be the headline in Late January/early February of 2009 just as Bush (hopefully) leaves office. The Democrats in the House and Senate will complain to get headlines talking about how awful Bush is and nothing will be different.
Bush acted to keep the cannon fodder out of prison so what real punishment is Scooter going to get? The answer is none. Scooter will walk away and sit on the boards of Halliburton and other companies and make multiple millions of dollars for taking the heat.
And approval ratings of the Federal Government will go one point lower.
A Democratic Congress that won't impeach is like a battered woman who won't file charges against her husband. He'll get drunk and haul off and commit high crimes and misdemeanor. She won't go to the police to have him arrested and tried. Instead, she'll complain about it to her girlfriends over coffee. And the cycle of abuse continues. The worst part of it is the husband knows she won't do anything about it so he just keeps doing it over and over again.