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(Congressman John) Lewis (D-GA) Calls For Bush Impeachment
WXIA Atlanta ^ | 12.19.05 | AP

Posted on 12/19/2005 1:50:24 PM PST by mhking

ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. Representative John Lewis said in a radio interview on Monday that President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans.

The Democratic congressman from Georgia told WAOK-AM that he would sign a bill of impeachment if one was drawn up and that the House of Representatives should consider such a move.

Lewis is among several Democrats who have voiced discontent with Sunday night's television speech, where Bush asked Americans to continue to support the Iraq War. Lewis is the first major House figure to suggest impeaching Bush.

Lewis said --quote-- "It's a very serious charge, but he violated the law.The president should abide by the law. He deliberately, systematically violated the law. He is not King, he is president."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 109th; barkingmoonbat; johnlewis; johnputzlewis; loonyleft
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To: mhking

Good call! Try to impeach him when his poll numbers are rebounding!

Great strategy! :sarcasm:

Dems are so tone def it's almost funny.


41 posted on 12/19/2005 2:11:43 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: mhking

I met him briefly a year or two ago in Las Vegas while waiting for a Walk light to change. He's very short. And self important.


42 posted on 12/19/2005 2:13:47 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: mhking

Are they sure? Who can understand that mumbling imbecile?


43 posted on 12/19/2005 2:13:59 PM PST by Yankee
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To: savedbygrace

He was given an honorary degree at a recent Duke University graduation ceremony. Many in the audience gave him a standing ovation. I was not one of the many.


44 posted on 12/19/2005 2:15:44 PM PST by clintonh8r (If you don't support the mission you don't support the troops. Period.)
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To: RacerF150

Probably, he is most certainly a challenged speaker and not adept in the art of public discourse and very much prone to mispronunciation, mis-speaking, and outright bastardization of words. However, he has, in the eyes of his major constiuency earned that right through beatings to the head, high pressure fire hose dousings, police dog attacks, etc. (or so the story goes from the Alabama MLK days). I chalk it up to being punch drunk and maybe illiterate.

I also am aware that the leader of the free world ( President GW Bush) has a similar trouble with words, at times. So, my conclusion is not what manner in which a man speaks but what he says, and how you perceive what he meant to say.

Regardless, I have never agreed with Rep Lewis' aims and goals and feel he is just another tool of the Democratic party which will do anything, ANYTHING to regain and keep the power they once had.....


45 posted on 12/19/2005 2:18:15 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: mhking

What an idiot!!

Everything President Bush is doing is covered by Law and there to protect even this idiots sorry butt!

What's his email?!


46 posted on 12/19/2005 2:26:03 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Peach
On how many threads have you now posted the opinion that the 'agents of a foreign power' clause completely guts the rest of the statute?

Well, since you seem to be the foremost promulgater of that view, can you tell me where the terms 'corporation' and 'association' are defined to include individual US citizens?

47 posted on 12/19/2005 2:26:11 PM PST by lugsoul ("Try not to be sad." - Laura Bush)
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To: mhking
Disingenuous boobs! Did Lewis and other dems call for Clinton's impeachment for ESCHLEON?
48 posted on 12/19/2005 2:28:51 PM PST by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: mhking
Why doesn't Congressman Lewis insist on impeaching Bush FIRST for Bush's "lies" to go to war with Iraq?

Seems to me that would be a more serious offense and the 'Rats have been harping on that a lot longer.

49 posted on 12/19/2005 2:30:59 PM PST by manwiththehands ("Merry Christmas .... and Happy New Year ... you can take your seat now ...")
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To: lugsoul

I don't know, lugsoul, I've read and re-read that section you don't seem to like my reposting on pertinent threads and I think it's pretty clear.


50 posted on 12/19/2005 2:32:01 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: mhking
john.lewis@mail.house.gov
51 posted on 12/19/2005 2:34:53 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Jeff Head
One has to wonder, with all of the terrorist apologists and traitors in the senate, how many of them are scared sh*tless their communiques have been intercepted and this outrage is intended to muddy the water before they are exposed.

If they are exposed as having had terrorist communications, what better way to cover than to say it's the White House attempting to destroy them in retaliation?

The MSM would happily fly cover for the terrorist enablers in the government if it would mean no more President Bush.
52 posted on 12/19/2005 2:35:15 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Whats with the Marquis of Queensbury Rules bullsh*t, we fight for our very survival! Fight Dirty!)
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To: COEXERJ145
Looks like John Lewis will be the newest Democrat darling for the impeach Bush crowd on FR.

Who in the hell are those people?

53 posted on 12/19/2005 2:36:12 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: clintonh8r
And he said . . . "But I am standing."

5, 6, 7, thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

54 posted on 12/19/2005 2:38:10 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: savedbygrace

Should be WAKO-AM Not WAOK.


55 posted on 12/19/2005 2:41:20 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: MeanWestTexan

To have had but one modern day carrier on station then...


56 posted on 12/19/2005 2:46:08 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: Peach
There is no legal wiretapping of US citizens or permanent residents under FISA. Period. The Lone Wolf Amendment you cite expressly excludes US persons.

Oh, and under the most basic statutory construction, the Lone Wolf Amendment undermines your argument about 'agents of a foreign power.' The fact that these persons are excluded from the amendment is pretty good evidence that they aren't intended to be covered by those provisions, which have the same effect as the construction you urge.

Amazing to watch all these FReepers cheering the expansion of the state, even yawning at a flat admission of disregarding the Bill of Rights using a vague 'duty to protect' argument. The same argument could be used to justify kicking in doors and spiriting away people in the middle of the night. And I suspect the same folks would be cheering that, too.

57 posted on 12/19/2005 2:49:19 PM PST by lugsoul ("Try not to be sad." - Laura Bush)
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To: mhking


"We need a President who can lead this country with honesty and integrity...like Bill Clinton for example!"
58 posted on 12/19/2005 2:52:39 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: Peach

Looks like you are being stalked Peach...lol.


59 posted on 12/19/2005 2:58:49 PM PST by penelopesire
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To: Peach
More impeachment talk

And you're gonna hear lore of it

This was all a set up by the libs

60 posted on 12/19/2005 3:00:14 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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