Impeachment vs. Investigation - the way I see it

[derby378]

I will grant you that the best way to handle impeachment of the President is to conduct thorough investigations on the Hill before you submit a motion to impeach. But it all comes down to past tense vs. present tense when investigating a crime.

First scenario: You walk into an alley and you see a 12-year-old girl slumped against the bricks, dead, a single gunshot wound to the head. You have police seal off the area, and they'll take all of the evidence they can - the bullet itself, DNA samples (did the girl dig her fingernails into the gunman's skin?), and all that. The cops will investigate. They'll interview the locals, trying to find out who did this to that little girl. Eventually, they'll come across a suspect who just happens to be wanted on an unrelated petty larceny charge. After a brief chase, the suspect is in custody. Then you have the trial and lay out the evidence for the judge and jury to see, and leave it to the judicial system to see if the man is going to serve 25-to-life in the big house.

Second scenario: You walk into an alley and you see that 12-year-old girl, very much alive but scared out of her wits, a .38 pressed against her head by that petty criminal I mentioned earlier. In any way you can, you must intervene, because law enforcement may not make it in time. You try to reason with the thug, but to no avail - he's gonna pull the trigger. So you draw your own weapon, you hold back the tears, and you give some frightened mother her little baby girl back by putting the would-be killer out of his misery.

That's how I see impeachment. You want to do it thoroughly, but when our very national security is at stake, there may not be any time for niceties.