One Impeachment Thought

Given the talk of impeachment, I remind readers that the one semi-successful presidential impeachment in American history, that of Andrew Johnson, was successful because the Republicans who opposed him had such an overwhelming majority (40th Congress, I believe). Impeachment proceedings really only work if you have at least some of the other party with you or you have a substantial majority. The Democrats have neither of these.  Richard Nixon resigned because it was clear that significant numbers of Republicans had abandoned him.  I suspect that no Republicans will vote for articles of impeachment against George Bush.  The being the case, impeachment is unnecessarily divisive, and as Prof. Blanchard suggests, will likely be perceived as such by the populace.