Impeach Bush Movement Gains Steam (NOT!)

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[mhking]

Impeach Bush Movement Gains Steam

—By Erin Ferdinand, Utne.com
February 14, 2003 Issue

Go to Google and enter “impeach George Bush,” and you’ll get 9,690 results, dozens of which are Web sites urging American citizens to do what the Democratic Party has not—organize and demand impeachment. At the forefront of this movement are former attorney general of the United States Ramsey Clark and University of Illinois law professor Francis Boyle. Boyle’s site, Impeach Bush Now, is the most comprehensive. It includes press releases, interviews, and supporting articles, including, “Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal (1950),” and a draft impeachment resolution just waiting for a congressional sponsor. Clark’s Web site, Vote to Impeach, is brief but compelling. It features his own Articles of Impeachment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft, plus a ballot box in which your vote will be hand-delivered to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the ranking committee Democrat. Also noteworthy are the 15,463 signatures on the impeachment petition at Petition Online, not to mention the numerous sites that offer “Impeach Bush” T-shirts and bumper stickers.

Related Links:

• Francis Boyle’s Impeach Bush Now
• Ramsey Clark’s Vote to Impeach
• PetitionOnline.com’s Petition to Impeach George W. Bush
• Google search on “impeach George Bush”

[mhking]

Yet more idiots heard from...

[goldstategop]

More leftists who think the American public's love affair with the President has to be ended for their jolly own good...

[gaucho]

Impeach Bush for what, exactly? Is there some intern that we haven't heard about? </sarcasm>

[apillar]

The scary thing is if the democrats had won the house and senate last November this article wouldn't just be the funny joke that it is.

[goldstategop]

If President Bush were photographed in bed with Saddam all the lefties would drop this impeachment BS in a New York moment.

[Fresh Wind]

"Steam" is nothing but damp hot air.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Based on what?

[TomB]

Impeach Bush for what, exactly? Is there some intern that we haven't heard about?

Actually, I heard some of the anti-war legal experts the other night and I believe the precise legal terminology was something like:

"We think Bush should be impeached beacuse he is a yucky doo-doo head"

.....hey, they had references......;-)

[David Isaac]

Those on the left cannot deal with the fact that Clinton was impeached, though not for the many high crimes he committed. They are reacting in their usual childish manner.

The phenomenon of Bill Clinton was hyper-polarizing to the entire electorate. He was (is) such a scumbag, people on the right, who did not have to like him because of his party affiliation, were constantly criticizing him. While those on the left, who were obligated to defend the slug, could only do so by attributing the attacks to hatred by "radicals". To defend the demon they had to demonize the opposition. Many of these people are probably internally angry at Clinton for being such an easy target, but transfer that anger (psychological defense mechanism) to their ideological enemies.

[Publius Maximus]

Impeach Bush for what, exactly?

For being a successful Republican politician.

Seriously! If you are a successful Democrat, no crime ever "rises to the level of an impeachable offense"; but if you are a Republican, just about any public policy position you take does. That is how twisted their logic really is.

[apillar]

Oh I'm sure a democrat majority would have no trouble inventing an impeachable offense just like they invented a nonexistent provision in New Jersey to get Lautenberg on the ballot. It would probably something like "civil rights violations" because he hasn't shoveled enough handouts to minorites. Or maybe they would claim he was responsible for September 11, Hillary herself asked "What did he know and when did he know it!"

[Pete]

This is really no big deal. The Democrats tried to start the impeachment process three times against Reagan in the 1980's. It never went anywhere and neither will this.

[Monty22]

Bush is charasmatic in a friendly way

the toon was charasmatic in a creepy, cheap used car guy

The leftwing sites blame Bush for EVERYTHING. Japan threatens North Korea? Blame Bush. I mean, it's up and down the list of world issues.. Everything bad in the world to them comes from Bush.. Healthcare issues? Bush.. No topic is insane enough for them to not blame him.

I'm sure there were some people who thought that of the toon, but it generally didn't go along with the extreme hatred of him for all problems global and local.

I also don't believe conservatives hated the USA itself and actively root for its destruction during those dark years either. Maybe a few, but not like this.

[David Isaac]

You are correct. Cinton's very specific behaviors were the objects of his enemies' dismay.

I still hold that the level of inter-party animosity and pure vitriol was nowhere near as high before Clinton came on the scene. People on the left, though they usually abhor violence, are ready to physically fight to defend the steaming pile of .... I have had offers from two different, and I thought, quite civilzed and rational persons, to step outside because I mentioned Clinton in an unfavorable light.

These attitudes have been created and fed by the Democrat establishment. There is a war on right here at home and the only weapon we have is the facts, which must be presetented publicly, forcefully, and relentlessly.

[Marines981]

No bother.

[Richard Axtell]

Wow, and what a head of steam these roudy rebels have gotten up! Why, by the rate their going, with 15,463 signatures already (after two years of a Bush admninistration), they will reach the critical half million mark some time around August of 2067! Only 64 years away! Oooh baby, get outta da way of THIS juggeranut!

[section9]

Ah, another online petition...

Heywood Jablowmie should be showing up sometime soon to offer his support.

Meantime, time to carry out the clown...

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[wbill]

Oh, I think that these ridiculous sites serve an excellent purpose. First, they identify those people that are not worth paying any attention to...."Lower crime? Good. Help the children? Sure. Impeach Bush? Ahhh.....never mind. Had me, then you lost me."

The best part about these sites is that they mean he's doing something right. If all the Democrats agreed with him, he wouldn't be a Republican. So.....the louder they scream, the better the job he must be doing.

[D. Brian Carter]

Hey, isn't he Hugh Jardon's cousin?

[dagar]

I entered "stupid liberal" in Google and got 215,000 hits. So if I use their logic, maybe we should impeach stupid liberals instead.