Why not pretend to do something?

Let me check here – yep, still an 18% poverty rate. Yep, still a social security system which will go bankrupt long before I’m eligible to receive benefits from it. Yep, still 15% of Americans living without health insurance. Yep, still a war going on. Yep, still genocide occurring in Darfur. Yep, still hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cheats every year. Yep, still an educational system which is failing countless children. Yep, still millions of illegal immigrants in the country and thousands more coming in every day. Yep, still problems with energy production and supply. Yep, still millions of Africans with AIDS and hundreds of millions worldwide living in poverty. Yep, Iran is still trying to build nuclear weapons. Yep, Al Qaeda is still trying to kill as many Americans as humanly possible. Congress is doing something to address one or two of these, right?

No, of course not. They want to make another statement vote. This time, trying to impeach Alberto Gonzales for firing U.S. attorneys, which is a power he explicitly has.

Dems Seek Gonzales Impeachment
ABC News

Days before Congress is set to adjourn for its August recess, a group of Democrats on Capitol Hill is seeking an impeachment resolution against embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

On Tuesday, Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., sought to introduce the legislation urging the House Judiciary Committee to "investigate fully whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to impeach Alberto R. Gonzales, attorney general of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors."

Six other Democrats joined Inslee, a former prosecutor from Washington State. Reps. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., Michael A. Arcuri, D-N.Y., Tom Udall, D-N.M., Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, Ben Chandler, D-Ky., and Dennis Moore, D-Kan., co-sponsored the legislation.

The House and Senate Judiciary Committees have been investigating the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, and the role Gonzales and senior Justice Department officials played in the dismissals.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, denounced the impeachment move, calling it "a misuse of Congressional power for purely political reasons and a waste of the American public's money and time."

"Democrats have ignored this fundamental principle in their own investigation and have chosen instead to engage in a politically motivated campaign to slander the Justice Department and undermine the credibility of federal law enforcement," Smith continued.

The impeachment resolution is viewed by many on Capitol Hill as symbolic and unlikely to get much traction. But it is the latest display of a lack of support for Gonzales, who has faced a series of challenges this year.