Is a call for impeachment prohibited by the Constitution if...

[TruthIsAll]

the President's party controls Congress 6 months before the election, even if there is overwhelming evidence of treason, high crimes and misdemeanors?

I don't think so.

On the contrary. Treason has no calendar.

[wuushew]

1. In all fairness President Andrew Johnson was impeached

by the radical Republican wing of his party.

[stellanoir]

3. if not prohibited. . .

then it's most unlikely when his party controls the media, and the judicial and the legislative branches of government. To say nothing of the voting machines. Arghhhhh.

[Dookus]

2. No

the constitution doesn't even mention political parties.

[mulethree]

4. I don't think that clause

anticipated a 2-party system with party loyalty exceeding personal ethics and the best interests of constituant citizens.

It probably also didn't anticipate 50% of executive documents getting classified and a President stonewalling congress regarding his justifications for going to war.

"President" Cheney scares me even if it's only for 9 months

[FloridaPat]

5. No restrictions. Only the house can start the process. Too bad

We the People can't start it.

[newscaster]

6. I have one serious doubt about impeachment now.

My doubt is that its not possible right now.
I am all for kicking *'s butt out as hard, as fast and as far as possible but..... You have a Republican controlled house and senate and they wont allow such a motion to even be voted on.
There is really not enough time to mount such a campaign and spend all that money when Shrub will be voted out anyway.
And besides, screwing up a war we shouldn't have started in the first pBut November is not far off.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. If, in the name of politics...

The House shirks its constitutional responsibilities in the face of damning evidence, then history will be its judge. It will be considered the most tainted, most corrupt(as a body and leadership) legislative body in the history of the nation.

That may matter to a lot of them.

[Old and In the Way]

8. I chuckle when I hear all the referals to "spineless Democrats",

when the true cowards are the moderate Republicans who won't stand up to the extreme RW of their party. They are simply rubber stamping whatever outrageous anti-American legislation is proposed by this administration. None of them have the guts to stand against their party and do what's right for the country.