Posted on 03/07/2006 9:26:29 AM PST by raccoonradio
ROCKINGHAM -- A Newfane resident's call for the impeachment of President George Bush is echoing in Rockingham.
Maya Costley, who lives in Saxtons River, heard about Newfane Selectboard member Dan Dewalt's town meeting article asking Rep. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., to open impeachment hearings against the president.
If Newfane voters approve the article, Dewalt is going to send Sanders a letter asking the Washington politician to open the impeachment hearings.
"I was inspired when I heard about that," Costley said about Dewalt's push. "A light turned on and I said 'This is what we need to do.'"
Costley was too late to have the topic debated at Rockingham's town meeting this year. She wants to gather enough signatures to call a special election.
She said she is also raising enough money so that the town will not have to fund the special election.
Like Dewalt, Costley said she is angered and frustrated by what the president has been doing. She said Bush started a war in Iraq with false information and she said his tapping of American phone calls is illegal.
"I have a son and I am frightened for him," she said. "The president has broken the law and he has to be told that this will not be tolerated. "People have to stand up and say something and make that statement. We want Congress to stand up and fulfill the task that should be done."
"The [impeachment] article, approved by a paper ballot 121-29, calls on Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against the president, alleging that Bush misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying."I wonder, what happens to congresscritters who file such paperwork "frivolously"? Any precedents?
Perhaps he will file the articles as a campaign ploy?
If so, it will be to his destruction as the Pubbie Party will inundate the Vermont with funds to defeat this moonbat.
they came from wuss neighborhoods.....
And if we were to lose the House, we might be entering a new phase in impeaching every President in their second term.
You may be onto something there, p...
If it happens to W, and then to the next president, there'll be an established pattern, since klintoon in '98. I'm thinking that the 'threshold' will have to be raised, substantially, for impeachment hearings.
The cover of the March issue of Harper's magazine said something like, "Why We Must Impeach Bush." It seems to me that it's traitorous to be talking about impeachment at a time when this nation is at WAR! Doesn't it seem traitorous to anyone else on this Free Republic web site?
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