Buchanan sez Bush should be impeached

New York Daily News ^ | September 17, 2006 | Thomas M. DeFrank

[EveningStar]

Republican firebrand Patrick Buchanan said yesterday that President Bush should be impeached for failing to stem the "invasion" of illegal immigrants across America's Southern border...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

He really jumped the shark with this one.

[MadIvan]

Buchanan is going too far. Yes, there's a problem with illegal immigration. It is difficult to see how engaging in a process of impeaching Bush would solve it. Furthermore, impeachment is a tool against personal high crimes and misdemeanours, not advocating policies which do not work.

Regards, Ivan

[martin_fierro]

[Petronski]

Really glad to see you post again! Stick around, woncha?

[babygene]

If there would be one reason to impeach Bush, that would be it... Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

Bush has certainly sold us out with his immigration policy. I don't know what the heck he's thinking with this amnesty crap.

[Mo1]

I have another word for him too

[Wombat101]

Joe who????

So what? Half the democratic party thinks the same way. Does that mean they're right, too?

I would give this argument much more creedence if it had orignated from another source: Pat Buchannan happens to be right, but in the same way that a broken clock is.

I would hardly look to Pat Buchannan for leadership on any issue, since he has gone so far right that he is in danger of wrapping-around and becoming a Leftist, in tone at least, if not in fact. I wouldn't trust Pat Buchannan to lead a three-year old to the crapper.

I will, however, give credit where it's due: he has found an issue to pound the President and the disliked (by him) elements of the Republican party. It will sell him an awful lot of books and ensure appearances on all the cable talk shows. However, Pat doesn't exactly offer solutions, nor does he lead any political power base that will cater to his pet peeve. He's also a turncoat (anyone who abandoned the Republican party for the Perot banner is a turncoat; those folks brought us 8 years of Bill Clinton). In this regard, Pat is preaching to the choir.

Now, if Pat were to come forward with something more than "build a fence, impeach the president" I might be inclined to listen.

[jazusamo]

Buchanan should retire and take up residence in whacksville and live happily ever after, in silence.

[KC_Conspirator]

Republican firebrand? Sorry, but Pat left the party quite some time ago.

[TAdams8591]

"Republican firebrand Patrick Buchanan said yesterday that President Bush should be impeached for failing to stem the "invasion" of illegal immigrants across America's Southern border..."

All this kind of argument does, is alienate people who would agree with Pat's position.

[johnny7]

Von Buchanan...

[woofie]

Pat is a fool

[cookcounty]

The nut farmer speaks.....

[Petronski]

Former Freeper rcocean told me this really funny joke about Buchanan. Wanna hear it?


Have you heard that Buchanan lost an uncle at Buchenwald? It's true. Poor chap fell out of the guard tower...

[thoughtomator]

Pat's living in an alternate reality. While he is absolutely correct in that the border invasion constitutes more than adequate grounds for impeachment, there is no chance in Hell of that happening as long as the Democrats' unreasoning and unreasonable extremism forces all non-Democrats to band together in support of the President.

[TAdams8591]

"Future articles by Buchanan should be banned from FR."

I disagree.

[VictoryGal]

> I agree with him on the borders but calling for Bush's impeachment is going way too far.

Agreed. :-( Very sad.

[RodgerD]

Bush has grossly failed to uphold his duties and oath of office as it regards the border. Unfortunately, so have his predecessors and so does most of Congress.
The solution to politicians like Bush is not far-out schemes like impeachment. It is to elect better politicians. Unfortunately the front-runners for 2008 are all open-border types again. It may be that the best we can hope for is that the House continues to hold off Amnesty and massive third-world migration increases for a few more years.

[FreePaul]

And this all started in Jan 2001?

It could have stopped then. It should have stopped by noon on September 11, 2001.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Bush has certainly sold us out with his immigration policy.

Why don't you & Buchanan continue hammering the administration on the issue instead of knee-jerking for an impeachment. That's what you do - you hold their feet to the fire on this issue. Already, Bush and the Senate are on the defensive while the House Republicans have support from the American people. You impeach Bush and Cheney will be President and will continue the administration's policy. What will you have gained?