If Alito couldn't be stopped, is the possibability of Impeachment real?

[ecoalex]

From my vantage point, the allowance of Alito begs this question.I do not see Impeachment a reality, when Alito with a huge discriminatory record was allowed to be confirmed.This says to me, that the whole question of Impeachment while in office is mute. It ain't gonna happen.Too many paid off, or unable to stomach the truth. With the electorial coups of 2000, 2004, a lock on the Supreme Court, 2006 is the year our Republic died. Game , Set, Match.Corprorates -100 the people -0.Just try to win any Federal elections with the HAVA anti Dem voter act.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. Impeachment never really was a reality.

Certainly not with the current makeup of the Senate. I just can't see that many Republicans defecting.

[patricia92243]

2. I have never thought there is a possibility of impeachment for the reason

reasons you just listed.

[cali]

3. Impeachment is possible only

if dems take over congress. Both branches. But that's putting the cart before the horse. Before articles of impeachment were drawn up, meaningful official invvestigations would have to be held on whether the admin broke the FISA laws and whether they deliberately lied us into Iraq. It's not enough to say "that should be obvious". Nor should it be. Anyway by the time that happened bushco would probably have less than a year to serve.

[AZBlue]

4. Absolutely. Once we regain control of Congress this fall.

Until then: no.

[iconoclastNYC]

5. A impeachment vote would really root out the DINOs

So I say bring it on. We need to expose the GOP interlopers in our caucus.

[Jai4WKC08]

6. The Constitution says nothing

about a role for the Supreme Court in impeachment procedings. It says only impeachment in the House and trial in the Senate.

I think I've read that a SC justice was once impeached (don't remember the source, or whether it was authoritative). So I would think it might be out of their hands. True, they might try to insert themselves in the process. Would be interesting to see if they can.

I don't agree with what others have said about needing both houses of Congress in Dem hands to impeach. We definitely need the House. A Repub House will never ever ever impeach Bush.

But if a Dem House can begin procedings, conduct a thorough investigation, dig up hard hard evidence, AND if the Party can inform the American people so that they come to see impeachment as warranted (and this may be the hardest part, given corporate/Repub control of the media), it may end up like Nixon, where even many Repub Senators had to go along.

[Yollam]

7. Of course not.

Without a democrat majority, it is nearly impossible. These vermin in the Congress today are not like the republicans who got Nixon to resign back in the seventies. There is not an ounce of integrity among the lot of them.


And even if we did have a democratic majority in BOTH houses, I honestly have my doubts whether the current crop of pink-tutu jellyfish dems would have the gumption to draw up articles of impeachment. Maybe they would try, but I bet that it would go down to defeat.



Bush would have to rape and disembowel a baby on live TV for the present congress to impeach him (and they would only do it if it was a WHITE baby).

[AtomicKitten]

8. The Dem leaders have all said when 2006 election rolls around,

it will only take regaining one house of Congress for proceedings to begin.

However, with that forewarning, and the fact Ney has stood between Rush Holt's efforts at getting a verifiable paper trail on electronic voting machines, they Rs have every incentive to steal yet another election. They have nothing else going for them.

As time ticks away, Dems lose the only chance they have for a clean election in 2004 and ultimately impeachment of Commander Bunnypants.

[ecoalex]

9. With election fraud so easy, it will be intresting to watch, I've given up

any hope of real elections with the HAVA evoting fix.