Is there any FEASIBLE way to ACTUALLY remove Bush from office?

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I know we all would love to see him impeached, but have any of you (who have more familiarity with the legalese of such things) actually seen anything that could be proven as an impeachable offense?

Say, hypothetically, the Dems sweep the House and Senate in '06. We'd have the congressional majority to actually call for hearings. I, like the rest of you, have the very definite sense that many, many impeachable offenses have been committed by this tard and his pack of sychphants. But I would be hard pressed to offer a detailed breakdown of what exactly makes those instances grounds for impeachment.

Does anyone have an idea what the most solid and most provable approach to take this dangerous bastard out of office would be?

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[napi21]

3. I think it hinges on Fitz and who he indites.

If Fitz indites people above Rove, or someone who decides it's just not worth their reputation to cover Shrub's ass anymore, it can happen. Short of that, I seriously doubt it can happen.

[Kagemusha]

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[tocqueville]

5. I don't think so

I don't believe that the legalistic ways are strong enough, even with
a Dem majority.

Bush made two major mistakes : Iraq and Katrina. But he still has a very strong base.

Maybe a third mistake would be fatal, but it's more probable that it happens towards the end of his mandate.

[eleonora]

7. Or if another hurricane strikes before the season ends

People will hurt with natural gas prices going up 30% or more this winter too.

[jackstraw45]

6. Only vote for candidates supporting impeachment....

in 2006. Current congress won't do it.

Electing Impeachment-ready candidates is the only legal way I know of.

[Birthmark]

8. The Senate.

If ALL the Democratic Senators filibustered EVERYTHING but those bills essential to the running of the country until Bush resigned, Bush and the Republicans would be helpless. That would require backbone and principle. I suspect that is in short supply in the US Senate. It's a pity because the dead in New Orleans deserve Bush's resignation.

[snippy]

9. Impeachment is not a legal process, it is a political process.

Impeachment is rare because the American people know that they will soon be rid of the particular intolerable asshole. Prominent republicans have said several times that the grounds for impeachment are whatever a majority of the House of Representatives says. Gerald Ford once said that the House could impeach someone if they didn't like the tie he was wearing. But unless the majority of the American people, or at least a majority of the base of a political party based on hatred, such as the GOP, which also controls the House, impeachment is almost impossible regardless of the offenses committted.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. We Could All Cross Our Fingers And WISH Really, Really Hard

He's safe for his term, despite the obvious. But, history will prove us prescient.
The Professor

[jmowreader]

11. Not without Republican help

I believe the Republicans told Nixon to resign unless he wanted them to impeach him.

Problem is, the Republicans haven't had enough of Bush's shit yet. If they do, they'll probably give him an ultimatum: resign and we'll give you five-to-ten in Club Fed, or stay and we'll impeach you then charge you with a number of capital crimes, for which you will surely be found guilty and executed.

[punpirate]

12. The Republicans won't impeach him...

... but, if there were just two or three major journalists who would rag him daily, insult him daily, ask him pointed questions at his infrequent press conferences, in short, would treat him exactly like the commentators on the right treat the rest of us, I think he'd finally come apart with enough of that sort of treatment.

I think he's surrounded with handlers and people putting words in his mouth to keep him from being himself and he's got a pretty fragile ego (I mean, hell, how many of us need to have our mother go on television to threaten the press if they say anything bad about her child?). Enough relentless attacks on him, his character, his lack of veracity, his pompousness, his self-importance--i.e., just telling the truth about him, and he might just melt down before our very eyes, especially if Rover ends up in jail, despite Bush's best efforts....

[mcscajun]

13. Ooooh...Meltdown...what a lovely thought.

It would happen just as you say, IF enough people would make a habit of publicly challenging him.

We wouldn't have to impeach him then, his Cabinet would together invoke the 25th.

[Rex]

14. No, they now control the votes and believe Americans to be lazy

couch potatoes with no ambition. Boosh wanted to be dictator and now he is one. The next dictator will be just like him and so on. That is unless Boosh now thinks he is emperor, in which case we are fucked.

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[Cassandra]

16. Crowbar?

Under his ass, not over his head.

[Marymarg]

17. Scared Republicans

Republicans need to be convinced (if they are not already) that Bush will take them down. If that happens, they could distance themselves from him and put enough pressure on him (perhaps surreptitiously threatening impeachment)to convince him to step aside.

Republicans are the key as in the resignation of Nixon. They are the ones who are responsible for that. They forced him to see the writing on the wall and he had no choice other than the disgrace of losing an impeachment trial.

[Technowitch]

18. Locking

This just encourages the wrong kind of speculation... as evidenced by the posts we've had to remove.

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