Flashback: The Impeachment of George W. Bush (2006)

the nation ^ | Elizabeth Holtzman

[bronxville]

The time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush:

Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consitutional system of government.

Elizabeth Holtzman

January 11, 2006

Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so...

...Like many others, I have been deeply troubled by Bush's breathtaking scorn for our international treaty obligations under the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions. I have also been disturbed by the torture scandals and the violations of US criminal laws at the highest levels of our government they may entail, something I have written about in these pages [see Holtzman, "Torture and Accountability," July 18/25, 2005]. These concerns have been compounded by growing evidence that the President deliberately misled the country into the war in Iraq. But it wasn't until the most recent revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)--and argued that, as Commander in Chief, he had the right in the interests of national security to override our country's laws--that I felt the same sinking feeling in my stomach as I did during Watergate... Read more: The Impeachment of George W. Bush | The Nation http://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-george-w-bush#ixzz2X6rz9sSd Follow us: @thenation on Twitter | TheNationMagazine on Facebook

[bronxville]

"As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment of President Bush. A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law--and repeatedly violates the law--thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office. A high crime or misdemeanor is an archaic term that means a serious abuse of power, whether or not it is also a crime, that endangers our constitutional system of government."

Read more: The Impeachment of George W. Bush | The Nation http://www.thenation.com/article/impeachment-george-w-bush#ixzz2X6tEz6c4 Follow us: @thenation on Twitter | TheNationMagazine on Facebook

[bronxville]

- She even wrote a book about it. I tried to find what she thought about Obama going into Syria on the pretext of them using Sarin gas and also on Benghazi/NSA/IRS but couldn't find anything.

[2ndDivisionVet]

She’s probably on the White House staff these days.

[JennysCool]

The libs have moved on to trying to silence ANYONE who might want to impeach Obama for his astonishing paranoia ...

[Lexinom]

Not some of the libs I know.

[Slings and Arrows]

[JennysCool]

Really? Hope that’s a trend!

[ken5050]

The lefties occasionally have a sense of humor. In 2004, I was stopped behind an old beat-up Volvo, festooned with bumper stickers, peace signs..the usual collection of leftie crapola. Waiting for the light to change, I'm reading it, and I notice this gem:

"WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE BUSH A BLOW-JOB SO WE CAN IMPEACH HIM"

It IS pretty funny...

[Dixie Yooper]

I seem to remember the Democrats holding a mock-impeachment hearing in the basement of the Capital Building (6/16/2005)...and of course, the msm showed up.

[Verginius Rufus]

If I’m not mistaken, Holtzman was part of a Democratic scheme to stall the confirmation of Gerald Ford after Agnew resigned, hoping that the vice presidency would be vacant when Nixon was forced out and Carl Albert would take over the powers of the Presidency.