Do You Prefer Bush's Impeachment Originate At State Or Federal Level?

[KittyWampus]

Three states have begun looking into their right to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush and/or Cheney. Illinois (state which found this provision existed), California and Vermont.

Would you prefer to see Impeachment proceedings begin from House of Congress or from State Houses?

BTW, if a State did introduce Impeachment to the House, it would have precedence in consideration (it's be first on the agenda).

I think the idea of Impeachment beginning at State level to be very powerful. Seems less like 'political payback' and highlights the extraordinary and dire situation we are all in.

[porphyrian]

1. I prefer it happen sooner than later. - n/t

[liberal N proud]

2. I don't care how the regime is removed from power

It just needs to happen and it needs to happen as soon as possible

[Richard Steele]

3. Don't care, as long as it happens.

We need to restore the Rule of Law in this country,
and I'll be supporting whatever NECESSARY path the restoration takes.

[Initech]

4. State - the GOP Congress wont do anything about it

And I'm betting that if an article of impeachement were to be introduced in Congress, the culture of corruption will do its best to bury it.

[hobbit709]

5. I want

either, or, or both. I ain't particular as long as it happens.

[Beacho]

6. Other

As long as it happens, although happening at the state level would send the message about the repuke congress.

[KittyWampus]

10. another good point about States taking initiative

[William769]

7. Other.

Who cares, as long as it gets started!

[BurtWorm]

8. Whatever it takes.

The sooner the better.

[onehandle]

9. It's not going to happen with this Congress.

I'd prefer he leave tomorrow, but it's not going to happen with a Republican Congress.

I think Rove wants us to push Impeachment now. It may help them this Fall when it gets to the House and fails immediately.

Voters may see Democrats as single minded.

[katty]

11. out ASAP

[LoZoccolo]

12. Definately federal if at all.

I don't see the state ones being effective with both houses of Congress under Republican rule, and even then we have to realize it'll just put Cheney in charge, so I kind-of don't see the use. The regime will lose it's weakest link and that's it. People say "oh, the Republicans did it to Clinton!" and conveniently forget that his approval rating skyrocketed and the Republicans lost seats in Congress. I'd rather the Republicans fall into the pit of their own making and lose Congress and then the presidency without us generating sympathy votes for them. The people have largely woken up; I would rather the Republicans just reap the punishment of the ill reputation they've garnered for 15-20 years electorally.

[KittyWampus]

13. maybe I should ask if there were a choice... Dems take House or Senate

[dogpatch]

14. Republic of Vermont

Not sure about Illinois, but my father is the guy who figured how to do this in Vermont. I just have to brag about him :)

Impeachment, Vermont Style
A former Justice Department official finds a back-door congressional maneuver and launches his own campaign to impeach President Bush.

A. Jeffry Taylor is a 62-year-old lawyer and Democratic activist in Rutland, Vermont. As a young lawyer in the Los Angeles office of the Justice Department, he prosecuted antitrust cases during the Watergate era. The corruption he witnessed firsthand within the Nixon administration (a high-ranking Justice official once told him not to pursue a case, he recalls, because the suspects were “friends of the President, and we don’t sue friends of the President. Are you dumb?”) gnaws at him still. His blood is boiling now because of what he regards as another President’s unlawful conduct -- namely, what he regards as President George W. Bush’s flagrant violations of the Constitution’s due-process guarantees.

More at
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11448