"If you don't step down, Mr. Gonzales, we will impeach you!"

[BuyingThyme]

This sentence is not copyrighted.

It can be used by any Congressperson, Dem or Puke.

It guarantees re-election to the user and has absolutely no downside.

Oh, yeah, it also fulfills one's Constitutional obligation to defend the Constitution.

Up for grabs.

[RC]

1. bu$h & cheney have done far worse. Where is their Impeachment?

[BuyingThyme]

2. Baby steps.

[bunkerbuster1]

3. Congress really, really needs to establish credibility with the public

If they continue to permit a sideshow freak like Abu Gonzo to play them for fools, nobody will trust them to take on the big dogs.

I agree, impeach him. Sooner rather than later.

[BuyingThyme]

5. If the right guy uses the sentence above, I suspect they

won't have to complete the impeachment process before Gonzo runs off to South America.

[Frustratedlady]

11. Can we get in on a 4 for 1 Special?

Bush, Cheney, Gonzales and Rummy?

With 6 you get egg roll.

[BuyingThyme]

12. Egg roll?

We call her Rice Cakes.

[Frustratedlady]

13. Good one!

:toast:

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I heard some pundit on cable tv say that he can't be impeached.

Is that true?

[BuyingThyme]

6. I don't see how that can be true, but I would like to

hear the argument.

[sheerjoy]

9. Doyou people not understand????

Bush and Cheney MUST have BJ's... impeachment obviously requires that; but who in God's world would stoop (pun intended) to do so?

Therefore, we are well screwn.

[BuyingThyme]

10. It always comes back to Jeff Gannon, doesn't it?

[sheerjoy]

18. I thought of that

but surely even Jeff would not blow his image on either or both, so to speak.

[MiniMe]

24. Condi comes to mind for Chimpy n/t

[sheerjoy]

25. Surely to God

even she has more respect for herself than THAT!

[MiniMe]

29. Well, she does consider chimpy her "husband"

[sheerjoy]

33. Then she is one sick

and ugly broad.

[rucky]

7. ...

http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1177664668084

Impeachment. We think of impeachment as being reserved for presidents and judges. But Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution also provides for impeachment of "all civil Officers." The attorney general would clearly be included. The process is long and laborious: The House votes articles of impeachment and the Senate conducts a trial, but one hopes that somewhere along the line, the message would sink in and he would go. Whether Gonzales' mismanagement, mis¬statements and other missteps rise to the requisite level of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" may not yet be clear, but, as we saw with the Clinton impeachment, that is not a hard and fast standard.

[Beausoleil]

8. That's just BS

US Constitution, Article II, Section 4:

The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.


The AG is a civil officer of the US.

Pundit is ignorant or lying.

[lonestarnot]

14. And the key is shall be removed from SHALL SHALL SHALL!

Gonzo will be gone too when we get rid of his pal bushitler.

[MonkeyFunk]

30. No

removing Bush wouldn't automatically remove his cabinet.

And the word "shall" in that sentence means that once an impeachment and conviction occur, the officer shall be removed. It does not mean the congress SHALL impeach.

[bdamomma]

17. it is right there in black and white.

[Firepit 462]

15. shit in one hand and impeach in the other,

Both Democratically controlled houses are not accomplishing anything so far, let alone an actual impeachment. This thread in my opnion is representative of the Democratic congress, a puffed up empty threat that in all honesty has been "declared" so many times without result that it's not even listened to anymore.

Plame scandal fizzle
stolen elections fizzle
stop the war fizzle
gonzales fizzle
accountability fizzle


impeachment is a joke, and not even a good one. The congress has a lower approval rating than bush so exactly where is the support for impeachment going to come from? So far I haven't seen the Democratically controlled house or senate accomplish anything but provide really well placed "cover" for the bush administration via half assed, incomplete, and wishy washy at best indictments, bullshit non-binding crap, and a general lack of ability to accomplish anything but empty, hollow bullshit agendas.

Meanwhile, the war crunches merrily on, the next war is still "on the table", Rove is still dealing from the bottom of the deck, gas is more expensive than ever-etc.etc.etc.

[BuyingThyme]

23. Really? Where did you see all them puffed-up threats made?

I guess impeachment has been "declared" so many times that Dennis Kucinich was but the last one to get on board? A good lesson for newcomers.

Hey, I know... Maybe that low approval rating has something to do with the fact that the Dems in Congress are not making enough of them puffed-up, empty threats with which you've become so familiar. Maybe there's some secret plan to keep all of the puffed-up empty threats off the table.

Just brainstormin' here.

[mmonk]

27. So you agree that the constitution should be abandoned for politics.

[Kingofalldems]

35. You don't like Democrats very much

do you?

[loudsue]

16. There's some good information in this thread on impeachment.

I wish someone would read it to congress!!

:kick::kick::kick: & R

[femrap]

19. Who wants to bet on who says it first?

I'll take Conyers.

[Blackhatjack]

20. How about; "Mr Sargeant at Arms take Mr. Gonzales into custody" ....

"...and hold him until we decide what to do with him"

[MonkeyFunk]

31. I don't want the congress to have arbitrary powers

of arrest, anymore than I want the executive to have them.

[Peregrine Took]

21. Every day when I say the rosary I pray the whole lot of them be banished from

office and punished for their sins against America and the world.

[Firepit 462]

22. every day when you say the rosary ? you pray to have the lot banished?

hows that working for you? I guess you are assuming that God the everlasting, all powerfull, all knowing and creator of the universe since the begining of time itself...... is a democrat?

[sheerjoy]

26. Hahahaah

not necessarily...but neither is He a fool! <g>

[Raksha]

28. Of course God is a Democrat!!!

I thought that was common knowledge. Would the all-powerful and all-knowing creator of the Universe be a Republican??? How could that be possible?

[Hekate]

32. TY, Pippin.Sometimes when I'm relatively calm I pray they be fully awakened to what they've done.

I figure that horror should be punishment enough, spiritually speaking. On a secular level, I devoutly hope they end up in prison.

Hekate

[L. Coyote]

34. This message IS copyrighted. Credit DU, where it appeared first.

If you have new neocon neologisms, be sure to follow the link and add yours.
Current neologistics and the daily new doo requires new vocabulary.

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Gonzolies (verb. nov.) English, May 17, 2007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x907626

When Boston Globe reporter Bill Cardoso read Hunter Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" he proclaimed "That is pure Gonzo!" Cardoso used the South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after a drinking marathon.

"Gonzolies" is the English neologism describing the last man standing after a lying match.

"Gonzo journalism" refers to when an author cannot remove himself from the subject he investigates, often referring to a style of writing a story as perceived in the moment in the mind of the writer. Thompson believed objectivity in journalism was pure myth.

[elehhhhna]

36. "Impeach, then indict, or just indict? Your call, Al."

I like that one better.