Let's Impeach the President

Sounds like a good plan to me. Think we can impeach the whole party?

A liong slow process but I'm sure it would be worth it just to discover the actual events surrounding the commencement of this war.

I think impeachment would be a mistake. It would, as James says, be a long, slow process with a low probability of success, and it would immobilize our nation...as it did for Clinton's impeachment proceedings. I don't think we can afford the distraction right now from the many problems facing our nation. I think it would be much better to concentrate on the elections this fall, and take back control of BOTH houses of Congress from the Republicans. Yean, the Dems aren't that much better or less corrupt, but at least they could act as a damper on any further insanity by Bush and Co.

It's entirely unlikely that an impeachment process is going to get started isn't it?
Here I am expressing my genuine ignorance. Don't you have to have control of at least one house to launch the process?

James - You can in fact begin impeachment proceedings at the state level, which as one of the links notes, is an all but forgotten piece of legal arcana. A successful impeachment at the state level would reach Congress as a privileged motion, meaning that it would have to be at least debated and voted on.

Candida - A tastier target for whom? And frankly, things are going so badly that slowing them down could hardly be considered worse at this point. I mean, was Congress getting ready to pass some inspired bill to save the education system? About to solve the healthcare issue? Do something meaningful about the corporate greedheads that take over $10/gal in subsidies from the government and still bleed the public at the pump to fuel their record profits? Prepared to find the money to give all the troops first rate body armor on the government dime? I'm guessing not.

If the wankers could take the time after 9/11 to pass a motion putting freedom fries and freedom toast on the Capitol menu, they can bloody well take a day to talk about the corruption and criminality of our executive.

President Bush's approval ratings are hovering around 33% right now, with a (sizable) majority actively disapproving. I don't know how that fails to beat Congress' dismal scorings. Yet considering that very-recently-departed Republican House Majority Leader Delay is under indictment for fraud and conspiracy, that Republican Senate Majority Leader Frist is under investigation for a securities fraud scheme that is similar in kind but larger in scale than the one that put Martha Stewart away, that Rep. Cunningham (R-CA) is going to the Big House for accepting bribes from defense contractors, or that the Republicans' biggest money man Jack Abramoff is neck deep in fraud, embezzlement and political corruption, it simply is not surprising to me that there is a wide perception of Congress as being unethical.

If the public thought anything else, I'd suspect Valium in the water supply.

No, the president should be impeached, even if it comes to nothing, because someone has got to stand up and get it on record that the entire country isn't marching along behind these criminals with a happy little tune on their lips. It is the right thing to do when the president has lied about matters of life and death. It is the right thing to do when the president has ignored the Constitution to spy on Americans without warrant. It is the right thing to do when he has smilingly signed off on the massive corporate corruption that is the provision of contracts to American companies, like Dick Cheney's former company Halliburton (which is also the parent organization of Kellogg, Brown and Root, or KBR), allowing the looting of both the American and Iraqi treasuries in his great war machine. It is the right thing to do when his incompetence and lack of concern allowed an entire American city to fall to a storm, leaving its inhabitants scattered and now at the end of assistance.

Call for impeachment because Bush's crimes have destroyed the reputation of this country along with the lives of many thousands of people. Impeachment is a step on the path back to dignity.

Elect 'em, then impeach 'em. This could get to be a habit. What we need is a constitutional amendment that would allow us to dump an administration and elect another one when things reach the point of public disapproval we've reached now. We're in, at best, a state of paralysis with no way to deal with the problem and move on. Other countries manage this kind of thing much better than we do.

The parliamentary system is much better than ours IMO. Any time an administration screws up, they can have call for a "vote of confidence" and if it fails, they're gone, and a new government forms.
Seems like such a system keeps the government's feet to the fire...the nation doesn't have to suffer through the remainder of the four-year term to throw the rascals out.

Impeachment is necessary for us to begin to regain ground lost in world opinion and to increase our effectiveness in handling the pressing international issues. Impeachment would allow the world to see the American people, even in the face of media control, under a Congress that surrenders its rights and a judiciary increasingly blinded by ideological fantasy, can rise above, strike back and be tne nation of hope and freedom the world expects. Impeachment, NO pardons and crimminal conviction for our own crop of "evildooooers."

WE give the position of President to much power. I don't care what party he/she would come from. We rant and rave about what a given President is doing, yet aren't sure what congreesman represents our district, or even his name. We re-elect the same senators over and over again simply because we recognize his/her picture, and don't find the time to really see what the opponents real views are. We're just to plain busy to bother to vote in the smaller elections because our vote doesn't count anyway....poo, poo.
Something goes wrong in the country and the first question is what the President is going to do about it. Something goes right, we agree and give them credit. We gave this, our voice, our bit of power to the position by always going to the top while the person we elected to supposedly speak for us get a free ride. They duck and cover, while we keep looking up.
Yeah, impeach whomever is President and continue the cycle, we like to bitch.

We'd be stupid ti impeach Bush. You'd want Cheney leading the country?

Dear ALL,

Perhaps the new Chief of Staff and the new Press Secretary can breathe some new THOUGHTFUL life into the Whiite House.The reports I've heard make me think that George may be getting the idea that polls are saying something important, and tthat WE THE PEOPLE are starting to object to the objectionable.

Maybe our only course is to PRAY HARD and start to communicate seriously with the White House non-elected officials who seem likely to think better upon the needs of the USA and the WORLD. " Our Father who art ..."

Dick

Carl,
That is the shortest, most direct, and I might add humorous overall close to an argument I've read. LMAO

I agree with Sam's comment: "Impeachment is necessary for us to begin to regain ground lost in world opinion" I think impeachment is also necessary to begin healing the spirit in this country.

::: sticking tongue firmly in cheek :::

Can't we find someone willing to go give Bush a blowjob-- in the Oval Office-- so the proceedings can get started a little faster.....?

I wanted that bumper sticker, Peter.

but the thought of putting anyone in that position is worse than torture ;-)

I'm in.