should republicans impeach bush?

[breadbox]

It occurs to me that it might almost be smart for republicans to impeach
Bush before the election --- that way they would have majority control of
the process, and might be able to hope to have it end in a vote in the senate
in Bush's favor.
After such a process, there would be no push from the public to have a
real impeachment later, even if the democrats win big in November.

In fact, if they just swung a few republicans over to side with democrats
to successfully call for an impeachment, they might even be able to *blame*
the democrats and win seats in the fall.

<takes off tinfoil hat>

[StClone]

1. That has been debated

It'll be humorous to see which wins out those with morals and desire for office or those that want the status quo of Toones the Driving Cat.

[coldiggs]

2. Should republicans impeach bush? lol that is the mother of all theoretical

questions.

[breadbox]

4. theoretical questions....

Yup, I suspect that it will remain theoretical, though I noticed after
I posted that there was a similar post in the Specter thread about
republicans getting ahead of the game.....
Of course, I'd love to see them try it, and then have a few more
"inconvenient" facts come out, and suddenly there might be a few
senators on the repub side who might have to develop a real
conscience.....

On the flip side, an impeachment of Bush would really scare
me unless it also included at the very least Cheney and Rice.

[coldiggs]

7. dont hold your breath

[New Earth]

11. neither should you

[snowbear]

3. They should impeach themselves while they're at it...

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[Doctor_J]

5. I don't see why

in case you haven't been paying attention for the last month, they are now saying out loud that the law is whatever * says it is. It applies to whomever he says it applies to. And when Scalito takes his seat on the bench, this "interpretation" will be the official, eternal one.

[breadbox]

9. of course that is what they have been saying

the "why", to answer your question, would be to get the impeachment process
handled by republican majorities, rather than risk democratic majorities
impeaching after the elections.
I don't see it happening unless polls really swing in a positive direction
(and not just on the generic "which party" question, but for individual candidates)
very soon....

As to scalito's interpretation, actually, no. In an impeachment, the senate,
with the chief justice and some advisors, form the ultimate arbiters, if I
recall correctly....

[jobycom]

6. They'll just censure him, and the media will praise their integrity, and

contrast it to the Democrats' blind support of Clinton. The media has to do something to restore the Republican image, you know. They have too much money and too many lies invested in them.

[Old and In the Way]

8. I doubt they'd expose themselves and this pResident to an

Independent Prosecutor. If I were the Democrats, I'd refuse to sign on if it is a Congressional Investigation, because the majority (the Republican Syndicate) would control the agenda,the hearings, the vote, and the majority report. And, of course, the corporate media spin.

[stevedeshazer]

10. I've said that for years here

Only the Republicans will fix the Republican Party.

[mikehiggins]

12. How could they hold impeachment hearings without some of

the truth coming out? Things like that would focus the diffuse electorate enough to make it clear to the most unsophisticated viewers that we are dealing with a group of criminals and traitors. Who could tell where it might end once the people really begin to see what these neo-cons have cost them.

Nobody thought the French Revolution would end up with guillotines, but it did.

[Silverhair]

13. He won't be removed by impeachment anyway.

It takes a 2/3 majority in the Senate to convict and remove. No way we can get that.

[SONUVABUSH]

14. are you kidding?

Bush is the dream of the republican party. The beginnings of a totalitarian regime, a right wing supreme court, creating a police state in America. Less freedom for people, cutting taxes for the rich. These have been republican goals for years! They love it!

[diamondsndust]

15. the WHOLE WORLD should impeach Bush... n/t