This paper has more binding legal effect.
Posted on 04/20/2007 11:13:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont senators adopted a nonbinding resolution Friday seeking the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. With no debate, the Senate voted 16-9 in favor of the resolution, the ayes all coming from Democrats. Three Democrats and six Republicans voted against it. "I think it's going to have a tremendous political effect, a tremendous political effect on public discourse about what to do about this president," said impeachment supporter James Leas, a vocal advocate of withdrawing from Iraq and of impeaching Bush and Cheney. Lawmakers early in their session became the first to demand for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. But activists have been frustrated in their demands that the Legislature adopt another resolution calling for impeachment. Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, has ensured that a House impeachment resolution remains bottled up in the Judiciary Committee. She says an impeachment resolution would be partisan and divisive and that it would distract Washington from efforts to get the United States out of Iraq, which she says is more important. Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, has said he supports impeachment, but was hamstrung because Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, a Republican who presides over the Senate, would likely bury a Senate resolution in committee. But Dubie was absent on Friday and, with Shumlin in charge, the resolution was immediately taken up as one of the Senate's first items of business and pushed through. Many senators were surprised it was being considered; there was no effort to derail it, though. "I think it's fantastic," Leas said. "This is a great achievement and Peter Shumlin deserved a lot of credit for listening to the people, listening to his conscience and taking action."
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Thank God Bush is not President of Vermont
This paper has more binding legal effect.
Why, on the grounds that they don’t like him. Isn’t that at least a misdemeanor, to be disliked by the left?
There is absolutely no reason to live north or east of Penn. Personally I won’t leave Texas.
Mr. Leas may think that the moon is made of Parmesan cheese, but it isn't.
Delusional. Seriously. And people elected them to office.
Amen to that Brother. Semper Fi
And take Leahy and Sanders with them!
I hear you - I hate even going to New Jersey to visit my son at school.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Isn’t that cute!
I am amazed at the lack of intellectual honesty among some of these people. They want to impeach Bush and Cheney because of lying that got us into this war?????
They’re ignoring that there was a full congressional debate on this and that large marjorities of Democrats and Republicans alike voted in favor of the war resolution. How can they now say, Bush lied, people died, Cheney wants to enrich Halliburton and all this other stuff, and be taken seriously?
This really doesn’t belong in breaking news, in my opinion.
It’s rubbish.
If Alabama had passed that *same* resolution against President Abe Lincoln in March of 1861, charges of treason would have been brought and armies would have been sent South from Washington to occupy Montgomery.
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