Why isn’t impeachment getting more traction?

[babylonsister]

Why isn’t impeachment getting more traction?

By Lisa Mascaro, Sun Washington Bureau

Published in the Sun on Sept. 16, 2007

Washington — Bruce Fein, once a young lawyer in President Nixon’s Justice Department and decades later co-author of the articles of impeachment against President Clinton, was headed over to a Senate office building this summer when he received the news:

The White House’s attorney was refusing to let former counselor Harriet Miers and another aide testify before congressional investigators concerning internal conversations about the firing of U.S. attorneys.

Fein fumed. Even Nixon didn’t try to stop his counsel, John Dean, from testifying in the Senate Watergate hearings — and perhaps he should have. Dean captivated the nation in 1973 when he detailed Oval Office conversations implicating Nixon in Watergate, leading to his impeachment.

For Fein, the refusal to let Miers testify was another bad day in what he has called his summer of discontent — a summer in which he decided that President Bush should be impeached.

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http://politics.lasvegassun.com/2007/09/why-isnt-impeac.html

[pocoloco]

1. Short answer....

It would destroy the GOP!

[groovedaddy]

3. Almost the best reason I can think of to pursue it...

Justice is still top though.

[antigop]

2. How many of the Dem Presidential candidates support it and are pushing for it? N/t

[rjones2818]

4. One!

We know who, because he's right the first time, again!

Go Dennis! :woohoo:
http://dennis4president.com
Choose Peace!

[Doctor_J]

5. Because the GOP media monopoly would make Goebbels blush

Bill was impeached for nothing, and Hillary will be impeached during her term, because the media despise regular people and, by proxy, the Dems.

[rjones2818]

6. Beacuse Nancy thinks that

the Constitution is worth it only when you have the votes.

:banghead:

:nuke:

[stellanoir]

7. The table is far too slippery for such traction.

It has a slick veneer of representative leadership but has been waxed and buffed by corporate interests, war profiteers, a series of questionable elections, then coated with highly refined oil slick, and is now shrouded under the all purpose excuse of undeserved executive privilege and is supported by a wobbly base of selective amnesia.

Who the heck needs a lousy table like this when these bozos could be taking it to the floor?

Have a nice day.

[rudy23]

8. Because our party has been overtaken by neocons, who are slightly "nicer" than their counterparts

on the right.

[Vidar]

9. Because, one way or another, are leaders are being paid off.

Whether it's money, votes, political favor, blackmail or death threats, they are complicit.

[Me.]

10. Because, To Quote Conyers

They have the Constitution in one hand and a calculator in the other, and so far the bean counters are winning. Damn democracy and full speed ahead.