Posted on 08/05/2007 10:26:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"Impeach or else!"
That was the headline that one liberal Web site ran over a recent interview with the antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, who has been demanding that President Bush and Vice President Cheney be chucked out of office. But the Bush administration isn't her only target. Sheehan is so frustrated with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- who declared impeachment "off the table" even before the Democrats took control of Congress -- that she is threatening to run against her.
The speaker may think impeachment is off the table, but the I-word is being tossed about pretty freely in some left-leaning circles these days. The idea was first mentioned by a hardy band of Bush foes as long ago as the immediate aftermath of the 2000 Florida recount. Today, my e-mail inbox bubbles with notices of fresh and scandalous counts just waiting to be added to the bill of indictment.
Even a few Republicans have bruited about the idea. Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), speaking to Esquire magazine about Bush's hostility toward democratic accountability, said that "before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment." Bruce Fein, a Reagan administration veteran and conservative legal scholar, has aimed his gunsight at Cheney, producing a scathing denunciation in Slate of the vice president's high crimes and misdemeanors -- even describing one, the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, as "indistinguishable from Louis XVI's execrated lettres de cachet that occasioned the storming of the Bastille." Mon Dieu!
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"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
If something can be found that Congress itself has not been complicit in, yes, try it, by all means.
This just shows that America and Her people come second to the Democrats. Political posturing for votes is first and foremost to them.
If they seriously felt that Bush had committed an Impeachable Offense and had the evidence, there would be no hesitation in bringing the charges now that they are in control.
It is all about their own “surge” in their continuing 2006 campaign.
You got that right, but unlike Clinton, Bush has done nothing wrong except win two elections. They are driven by hatred and that alone will be their undoing.
Chuck Hagel needs to be impeached.
The left is truly insane.
“And they still want pay back for impeaching Clinton.”
That’s exactly what it’s about. The Democrats gave us Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, two losers, which they can’t quite live down. Now, they want us to accept another loser, Hillary.
No thanks.
“Bush has done nothing wrong except win two elections”
Bush has been a big spending, big government liberal. He trows money away faster than Clinton could dream of.
I’m for impeachment on that basis.
I don’t know why the liberals don’t like him, he’s given them everything they want except a few SCOTUS choices.
LLS
Hagel is a Republican?
He's the symbol of their loss of power. It really has nothing at all to do with his policies, especially the ones you cite.
It’s not often that one sees the BS piled so high.
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