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To: follow your bliss, sonofliberty2, OKCSubmariner, scholastic
Bush swore to uphold and protect the Constitution. Grounds for impeachment?

Perhaps, not by itself. However, constitutional scholars have agreed that Presidents may be impeached for nothing more than "bad acts" committed while in office. Such acts are broad enough in scope to include serious lapses in personal behavior which disgrace the office as Clinton did or acts of betryal or treason such as eviscerating our nuclear deterrent for example as Bush is doing and providing aid and comfort to the enemy by providing them with the means to attack and destroy us as both Bush and Clinton have done in regards to their appeasement of the Butchers of Beijing. So in regards to your question as to whether grounds exist to impeach this President, I believe that one views the full scope of the bad policies and actions which Bush has perpetrated while holding the office of President, the answer is clearly yes. Whether this one betrayal of the Constitution rises to an impeachable level would be a much more open question.

The really sad thing is that we have set a very bad precedent by failing to convict a President as treacherous as Bill Clinton in that we have set the bar for Presidential actions while in office lower than ever which allow bad Presidents who act in direct contravention to the constitution and to America's national security interests like Bush to get off scot free.
49 posted on 03/27/2002 5:13:52 PM PST by rightwing2
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To: rightwing2
Try again. Short list of yours I see. Should be fun to see who wants to join you in the rat***trap.
52 posted on 03/27/2002 5:20:53 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: rightwing2
However, constitutional scholars have agreed that Presidents may be impeached for nothing more than "bad acts" committed while in office

And those who will find him guilty of these bad acts are the ones who voted overwhelmingly for the bill he signed ?

61 posted on 03/27/2002 5:32:33 PM PST by VRWC_minion
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