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To: Mariner

The Pubs control only the House. So they can bring impeachment charges, but what would that accomplish? The Dems control the Senate where the impeachment must be tried.


35 posted on 04/17/2012 11:30:31 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

“So they can bring impeachment charges, but what would that accomplish? The Dems control the Senate where the impeachment must be tried.”

Yes - and that’s exactly what the problem was with impeaching Slick Willie. The House “impeached” him, but the Senate didn’t seal the deal.


37 posted on 04/18/2012 12:17:57 AM PDT by llandres (Forget the "New America" - restore the original one!!)
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I don't normally post very much from the Anti-Federalists, but considering how the Senate under Reid has become one with The One . . .

"It has been wittily observed that the Constitution has married the President and Senate — has made them man and wife. I believe the consequence that generally results from marriage will happen here. They will be continually supporting and aiding each other: they will always consider their interest as united. They can with facility act in concert, and on a uniform system: they may join, scheme, and plot, against the people without any chance of detection. The Senate and President will form a combination that cannot be prevented by the representatives. The executive and legislative powers, thus connected, will destroy all balances: this would have been prevented by a constitutional council, to aid the President in the discharge of his office, vesting the Senate, at the same time, with the power of impeaching them. Then we should have real responsibility. In its present form, the guilty try themselves. The President is tried by his counsellors."

George Mason, Virginia Ratification Convention, 1788.

44 posted on 04/18/2012 3:38:00 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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