Congress Needs Our Help: How to stall on Impeachment…

[Junkdrawer]

It’s mid 2007 and there’s a good 18 months of inaction needed until Impeachment is mute. But Bush & Co. keeps revealing more and more impeachable crimes. So, how does Congress stall for 18 months?

Here’s a few suggestions:

1.) Send a strongly worded letter asking Bush to stop committing crimes…at least for a few days.

2.) Begin drafting a non-binding resolution that suggests a date certain when all crimes by the administration should stop.

3.) Hold a hearing and take testimony from experts on how to hold a hearing on the possibilities of an impeachment hearing.

4.) Appoint a Bipartisan Blue Ribbon Commission to look into what would comprise an impeachable offence and commit to suggesting the President follow the commission’s findings.

This is just a start. I’m sure DUers have many more suggestions…

[AndyA]

1. What you wrote is very funny.

So why am I not laughing? :shrug:

[Junkdrawer]

2. Uh...because they've already tried all of them?

:shrug:

[Dhalgren]

3. Congress should claim to have lost the table off which impeachment was

taken. They are looking for that danged table and just as soon as they find it they will put impeachment back on it! Now, once impeachment is on the table, well that will mean that it can then be studied. It will need to be studied by at least three different subcommittees and then the House will have to agree on which of the twelve hundred and fifty-seven high crimes and misdemeanors to place in the indictment - if there is one (we don't want to jump the gun, here)...

[annabanana]

4. (Was that table square, rectangular or round?)

a la 'nam

[Dhalgren]

6. There is another whole series of studies for at least two separate

subcommittees! Boy! Pretending to do the People's will is hard work!

[AndyA]

7. I wish Pelosi would just say,

"Oops! My bad. Did I say impeachment was off the table?

Well, my goodness. What was I thinking? I didn't mean impeachment. I meant to say that a pardon was off the table!" :rofl:

[hvn_nbr_2]

14. We need a Blue Ribbon Commission to debate the shape of the table...

that impeachment would be on, if it ever were to be on a table.

[Dhalgren]

16. Now that is the kind of action that Congressional Democrats

could get behind...or under...whatever. Yoohoot!

[Beausoleil]

5. Congress should hold its breath

until it turns blue (no pun intended) or the president stops committing impeachable offenses, whichever comes first. Or until 1/20/09.

[Individualist]

8. Issue subpoenas to make it look like you're doing something, but

do nothing more than complain when subpoenas are ignored.

[radfringe]

9. change the national dialog

that always worked for the republics...

everytime an issue got too hot for the republics and/or the bushies -- BAM!!! Gay marriage amendment!! BOOM! Flag burnign amendment!!! HEY HEY HEY LOOK OVER THERE - Pledge allegience amendment to official put God into it....!!!!

and then there's the occassional TERROR ALERT!!!! Scuba Diving Hamsters and Gerbils with bombs strapped to them invading bathrooms through the sewer lines!!!!

[Junkdrawer]

10. Satire is Dead...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x909194

[mmonk]

11. You've already sent that to them

haven't you?;-)

[Junkdrawer]

15. FOR THE RECORD: I posted this BEFORE the Schumer/Feinstein presser...

and I had no advance notice of its contents...well, except for 6 years of precedents..

[mmonk]

24. With precedents, one can develop a sense of patterns.

[Junkdrawer]

12. Announce that stopping Bush's crimes will be the 'first order of business'...

but that Sen. Jay Rockefeller will be working on the issue and that patience will be needed while Rockefeller works on the remaining 3 of 5 parts of the Phase II White Paper.

[Greyhound]

13. You're such a pessimist. In the first place we would normally be able to whack 6 months

off of that time frame for the campigns, but thanks to premature electioneering, that is extended to 14 so we really only have to stall for another 2 months and with a, yet to be announced, prolonged summer vacation we're already there!

You're getting all upset over nothing, just one or two more resignations, maybe a bikini waxing debacle and we're home free.
:rofl:

[ArmchairMeme]

19. Ah! Did someone mention vacation

Congress should go on vacation for a minimum of two months like they are planning in Iraq now. Perhaps because we have no laws covering the length of vacations while an elected congressperson in the U.S. they won't have to go back to D.C. until it's all over whenever that turns out to be.

[Nunyabiz]

17. Does anyone know if there has ever been

a time in US history where a Resident of which most people know was never truly elected (stole 2 elections) has a 28% approval rating (only because the MSM lie, distort, and cover his back daily because if they didn't his rating would be in the single digits) has an entire State (Vermont) and I think at this point something like what 75 cities or more all have passed resolutions for Impeachment.
Have had 3 World Tribunals that have found him guilty of War Crimes, Crimes against humanity and a citizens Grand Jury in San Diego that found 16 members of this administration to have way more than enough evidence against them to warrant trials for War Crimes & Treason.
At least 60% of the entire country wants them Impeached, Yet our so called elected leaders flatly refuse to DO THEIR @^%$! CONSTITUIONAL DUTY!!?

That ever happen before?

[rudy23]

18. Just get Congressional Democrats to follow their model for Katrina relief. Should work fine! nt

[damntexdem]

20. Hey, try some warm-up pitches.

Try them out on Gonzo. See how you like it. Then decide whether to continue doing the right thing.

[crikkett]

21. 18 mos of inaction needed until impeachment is MOOT

mute means "silent" or "unable to speak"

edited to correct my *very own* typos.

[Senator]

22. 5.) Cut the Funding For Impeachable Acts

But make sure they're not funded secretly by the black budget, the Saudis, the Oil barons, or borrowing from China.

Ollie North can show them how.

Or not.

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[Solly Mack]

23. I'm snickering in that Precious Pup kind of way

[pat_k]

25. Yep. 80 weeks of impotent action -- piece of cake!

(Assuming they adjourn about the same time as previous Congresses).

They already managed to get though 21 weeks.

At the current casualty rates, in 80 weeks we will see 1600 American servicemen and women killed, 11,000 injured, and countless Iraqis killed, maimed, or tortured.