That's exactly right. House Dems are afraid of the political fallout, for Repubs would indeed set its machine to work calling it all partisan impediment to progress.
Ford's pardon of Nixon, Reagan's escape from Iran-Contra, probably both contributed to Bush's confidence that he could get away with violating the law.
See Bill hints Hillary won't hold Bush accountable.

It's wrong that the Dems have done nothing to impeach Cheney-Bush, despite the millions of people putting pressure on them to see this happen.

However, to say "The next president will almost certainly claim a privilege to imprison people without trial," is not true.

We need to elect better leaders and hope for the best.

The real -- immediate -- fear now is that Bush, warmongering Republicans and zionist extremist will get their desire of attacking Iran.

Well, I know one thing - He breached his contract so he should at least be fired.

I don't know citizen. I think we need to send a strong and clear message that this type of power control will NOT be tolerated by the people. I'm afraid that just voting for someone else who tells us what we want to hear and hoping for the best is not good enough. Perhaps they need to be shaken up for real change to happen.