That’s a good point I overlooked. I believe there was an article posted here on FR yesterday suggesting this was the case.
A number of days ago, Matt Drudge mentioned on his web site that the dems were polling impeachment.
A few days later, Drudge had a link to a story saying that the dems were backing away from impeachment.
Apparently the dems own polling results on impeachment scared the crap out of them.