The Dreaded I Word

[Hosakawa Tito]

Impeachment Option
Brought up by some of his own party, no less.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hagel just wants to be the antiwar republican candidate.

And if the democrat leadership want to show themselves for the joke they are, let them.

Crazed Rabbit

[Marshal Murat]

They wouldn't dare. For 1 reason.

Cheney.

While the terms for impeachment are somewhat broad, no one can really work it out, and I think it is something a little bit impossible.

[TevashSzat]

Never gonna happen. Democrats have too little of a majority in Congress and won't even be able to get an impeachment ready. Also, no one really wants Dick to be president.

[Lemur]

Yeah, 'cause impeachment worked out so well for the Republicans in the nineties. I'm sure the Dems want some of that action.

[KafirChobee]

Actually, Cheney could also be impeached for his involvements in the various illegal actions taken by this President's administration.

In the Nov/Dec '06 issue of Mother Jones, Tim Dickinson reviewed a number of books that call for, question/or advicate the need for impeachment, and document the history of its use since parliamentary times. Good stuff.

Heck, young Honest Abe called for the impeachment of James K. Polk for waging war on Mexico. Something they never taught me in the Illinois school system.

One suggestion for impeachment is just plain incompetence - of which this administration abounds. But, in all fairness their ought to be atleast some truely criminal acts against the constitution and the people it protects to truely justify such action.

So what high crimes has this administration committed? (loosely quoted):
1) They "fixed" intelligence to embark on a war of choice, unsanctioned by international law.

2) That the criminally incompetent lack of planning has caused that conflict to drag on longer than WWII.

3) The president authorized the NSA to engage in warrantless wiretaps of American citizens - in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments, the seperation of powers, and the express will of Congress in establishing the FISA courts.

4) The president has authorized the use of torture in contravention of US military law and Article Three of the Geneva Convention. Violations of which Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy observed in the "Hamdan" decision, "are considered 'war crimes,' punishable as federal offense."

5)The president has subjected enemy combatants to unconstitutional trial by military tribunal, and held American citizens in indefinite detention without access to lawyers or criminal courts.

6) [not my favorite, but it does have a point] Whereas the administration's homicidal dithering left more than a thousand of our most vulnerable countrymen to perish, needlessly, under the waters churned up by Hurricane Katrina.
[personally; I know the handling of Katrina was and still remains a national tragedy and demonstrates the complete incompetence of the Bushys - a single incompetence may be forgiven. However, this really points out that this was and is their mode of operendi. They simply cannot do any better, because they are not smart enough, compasssionate enough, or willing to sacrifice enough to do any better. They are incompetent.]

Once Bush and Cheney are out of there - wouldn't we have our first woman president? J/K But, if ever an impeachment was called for .... this is it.