What does this guy have to do to get impeached?

[Marleyb]

THIS was in the paper in Texas?!
Greg Sagan, Amarillo Globe-News

Say what you like about Clinton's behavior in office, his impeachment trial by the Republican Congress was received by people like me as a loud message; an assertion that Republicans would not tolerate dishonesty, deception, manipulation or violation of any of our laws by the president.

We are now deluged with evidence that President Bush has violated federal law in authorizing the National Security Agency to tap the telephone and Internet communications of Americans without a warrant, that he has violated international law by launching an unprovoked invasion of another country, that he has violated the Geneva Conventions by abusing prisoners of this war, and that he manipulated Congress by offering sanitized versions of National Intelligence Estimates about Iraq's weapons programs - versions that did not contain the disclaimers and rebuttals in the original documents he received from the CIA...

So people like me are wondering: Which side of the Clinton line does this
president's behavior fall on?

In my view all Americans - right or left, red or blue - must take a large step back and disavow the current political trend of accumulating power no matter what. It does not serve America in the long run to have any party resorting to the kinds of tactics this pattern reveals - a pattern of impeaching one's opponent on grounds we, ourselves, are not willing to enforce on ourselves; a pattern of constant attack over every stance or statement with which we do not agree; a pattern of spinning and parsing and qualifying the truth so that we look good no matter how bad we're being; a pattern of breaking laws and violating constitutional safeguards in the name of expediency.

This must be stopped before it stops us.

I call on Congress to act. Now. I call on Congress to reclaim at least some of the power its members have ceded so meekly to this president, to denounce his violations of federal and international law, to cease funding his ambitions, and to call him to account for what he has done.

Impeaching our president is repugnant. But even worse is the alternative.
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[HereSince1628]

1. the answer = lose partisan control of the House of Representatives

[Warpy]

3. Exactly right

because if he got filmed buggering a 5 year old boy on the south lawn, his own party would just burble endlessly about his special love for little children.

Expect to see an election so corrupt in 2006 that no one will be able to pretend it wasn't.

[Bake]

7. "Practicing his love" ... ahem

It's ALL about cementing and preserving power. The Republican Party long ago lost any principles it ever had.

Bake

[radfringe]

2. someone posted a sign they saw

it said

WILL SOMEONE GIVE BUSH A BLOWJOB
SO WE CAN IMPEACH HIM

[RufusEarl]

5. Well it appears that most of congress is doing just that!

[dogday]

6. Where's Gannon when you need him? nt

[Stephanie]

4. well said and concise

now anything about the guy? I dearly hope he is a republican.

[Coastie for Truth]

8. Simple

51 Democratic Senators
216 Democratic House members
PARTY DISCIPLINE for those 267 Democrats

[liberal N proud]

9. First paragraph missing a word "Democrat"

Republicans would not tolerate dishonesty, deception, manipulation or violation of any of our laws by the Democrat president.

[bullimiami]

10. he has already done enough to get impeached 20 times.

we need a congress willing to enforce the laws of this country.

i think the reason the repubs are so determined NOT to investigate torture, spying, lying etc... is because there could be revelations that would force enough of them to turn against bush as to make prosecution likely because the people would be screaming for it.

if it came to light, for instance, that the wiretapping was political, used against democrats, foreign governments and republicans who were getting out of line, ie much worse than nixon, it would guarantee impeachment. i think there are also facts in plame, lying us into war, torture, spying, 9/11 and elections rigging for starters that would be enough to force impeachment.
Thats why there can be NO real investigations.

[KyuzoGator]

11. Bush could rape Baby Jesus on national TV...

...and still get a 30% approval rating in instapolls.

[DELUSIONAL]

12. cult members will support their "leader" no matter what

and bushies hardcore supporters are brain washed/brain dead cult members with zero ability to think on their own.

Also a small percentage of this 15-30% will turn to terroristic tactics when and IF their idol goes down for his crimes. These fanatics really scare me -- more than any foreign born terrorist.

Look at all the financial terror that the bushie fanatics are aiming at Americans (and the rest of the world). Bushie and his gang are the biggest terrorists this world has EVER seen -- if you add on the financial terrorism.

[Rocknrule]

13. Switch parties

If Bush was a Democrat with the list of impeachable offenses he has, he'd be outta there like shit through a goose