Posted on 12/20/2005 9:20:29 AM PST by areafiftyone
Didn't we establish during the Clinton impeachment that Congress has no authority to censure the President anyway? The only remedy Congress has to (alleged) bad conduct in the White House is impeachment.
Humpty speaks
(Overseer and his family get to pose with Massa before mopping the mansion floors)
Dear Mr. Conyers,
We are calling on you to stop whining and STHU.
And so the sides are drawn--in time of war.
Might as well have this argument and get it over with.
What a bold faced LIE!! He and the leftist communist loons are anything but patriotic.
since this buffoon likes the word sensure, it's time Bush used his power to do exactly that to them!!
Don't forget the "Moonbat Alert!".
Hey Congressman Sambo, STFU!!
Okay, let Congress vote today! No waiting around.
I'd have to do some digging, but I have several VHS tapes full of the Clinton Impeachment. I was totally amazed at what an ass Conyers, Jackson Lee, Schumer (he was a Rep then), Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, and Barmy Frank made of themselves. Conyers came across as just plain senile! And the years since have obviously taken their toll!!
Summary of the eRumor
An email from the petition website Grassfire.net says that Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich) brought together a group of attorneys and legal scholars to consider articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush. The articles were drawn by activists who are opposed to the U.S. led effort against Iraq's president Saddam Hussein.
bullet The Truth
News of the meeting was reported on March 13, 2003 by Roll Call magazine in Washington DC. According to the article, Representative Conyers, who hosted the meeting, was the only member of congress in attendance. The articles of impeachment were described as having been drafted by Francis Boyle, an Illinois law professor. Roll Call says another attendee at the meeting was former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. WorldNetDaily.com says Clark has publicly called for impeachment of the president and is associated with the web site http://www.votetoimpeach.org/.
According to WorldNetDaily.com, some of those who answer the phones at Conyer's office denied that meeting took place and called it a rumor. But Dena Graziano, a spokesperson for Conyers told WorldNetDaily said that the meeting had taken place but that the "consensus" had been not to pursue the impeachment.
http://tinyurl.com/8kuw3
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Al Jazeera Magazine Online Edition
John Kerry to call for impeachment of George Bush
6/4/2005 3:45:00 PM GMT
John Kerry announced Thursday that he intends to present Congress with The Downing Street Memo, reported last month by the London Times. The memo purports to include minutes from a July 2002 meeting with Tony Blair, in which Blair allegedly said that President Bush's administration "fixed" intelligence on Iraq in order to justify the Iraqi war.
http://tinyurl.com/b4x2c
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Complete text of a statement by Rep. John Conyers, (D-Mich.), at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Monday, Oct. 5, 1998, on whether to begin an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton
Transcribed by Federal Document Clearing House and transmitted by The Associated Press
Thank you, Chairman Hyde. And to my colleagues all, we meet today for only the third time in the history of our nation to consider whether or not to open an inquiry of impeachment against the president of the United States.
For more than 200 years, we have been guided by that brilliant legacy of our founding fathers and of our Constitution which generation after generation has helped us endure the difficult political and social questions that face us.
I am quite certain that the drafters of that document might shake their heads in puzzlement at the action that is proposed by the majority that we take here today.
By now, we're all familiar with the constitutional standard for impeachable offenses -- treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Only yesterday we learned that Judge Starr may have himself misled the American people regarding his contacts with President Clinton's political adversaries and his coordination with Paula Jones' attorneys for over a year before he sought to investigate the so-called Lewinsky matter.
Then Mr. Starr, month after month, apparently leaked raw grand jury material to the press -- not for legal reasons, but only to embarrass the president of the United States, an act for which Mr. Starr, himself, is currently being investigated.
Then the Republican leadership directed this committee to dump tens of thousands of pornographic, raw, grand jury material on the citizens of this land, and denied the president any semblance of due-process rights in doing so.
Now, I believe the American people have a deep sense of right and wrong, of fairness and of privacy. And I believe this investigation has offended those sensibilities.
Who are we in this country and what is it that we stand for? Do we want to have prosecutors with unlimited powers, accountable to no one, who will spend millions of dollars investigating a person's personal life, who then haul before grand juries every person of the opposite sex the person has had contact with, who then record and release videos to the public of the grand jury questioning of the most private aspects of one's sex life.
Now there's no question that the president's actions were wrong. I submit to all of you that he may be suffering more than any of else will ever know.
But I suggest to you, my colleagues across the aisle, in every ounce of friendship that I can muster, that even worse than an extramarital relationship is the use of federal prosecutors and federal agents to expose an extramarital relationship.
Yes, there is a threat to society here, but it is from the tactics of win -- a win-at-all-costs prosecutor determined to sink a president of the opposition party.
Our review of the evidence, sent with the referral, convinces many of us of one thing: There is no support for any suggestion that the president obstructed justice or that he tampered with witnesses or abused the power of his office.
http://tinyurl.com/d79u2
When the first thing goes wrong this year in Congress.It'll be fun to see whoo the Dems try to blame before they realize that they are in charge.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing them screw things up. That will give us a boost for 2008.
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