What will it take to impeach the whole Bush regime?

[jbfam4]

What will it take to impeach the whole Bush regime?
By Bev Conover
Online Journal Editor & Publisher

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_334.shtml
Dec 14, 2005, 01:35



Given that Bush is at the center of two stolen elections, the "new Pearl Harbor" of September 11, 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act, illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the torturing of war prisoners and those he has deemed "enemy combatants," the lies he and his cohorts told to launch their wars and the lies they keep telling to keep their wars going, a destroyed US economy, and more scandals and corruption than Carter has little liver pills, and now the slap in the face that the constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper," what constitutes and impeachable offense? Is only oral sex in the Oval Office and/or lying about it impeachable?

What will Thompson say if between November 4, 2008, and January 20, 2009, Bush totally casts aside that "goddamned piece of paper" and announces he isn't giving up the presidency or perhaps he calls off another rigged election to put a successor clone in office and simply declares himself "president for life?"



Arianna Huffington took a similar weak-kneed approach in her blog Monday, in which she started off by saying Bush's "fanaticism is a scary prospect for the country."
She noted, "The latest issues of both Time and Newsweek paint a portrait of an isolated president detached from the reality of all that is going on around him. Nothing seems to be penetrating -- not the rising death toll, not his depressed poll numbers, not the continuing revelations about the deceptions his administration used to lead us to war. Not even the growing skepticism about the war being expressed within his own party."


Say what? She just expended 836 words telling us he ain't gonna get out of Iraq and that knowing what he knows today, he would do it all over again. Yet, she expects the Republican leadership that is growing fat on Bush's illegal wars, criminal tax cuts and economic mess to march into the White House and tell him to get out of Iraq. Talk about delusional.

If we want to reclaim what is left of America and our freedoms, we must demand that the whole Bush regime be impeached by the House, convicted by the Senate and turned over to civil authorities for prosecution of their crimes. Three more years of the Busheviks is a recipe for more disaster at home and abroad.

[peace frog]

1. A Democratic majority in the House of Representatives

... a stronger showing in the Senate would help, as well. Don't expect the Repubs to do the right thing, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Ain't gonna happen.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Agreed...

It starts with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress. We'd need a majority in the House for impeachment, and a majority in the Senate to convict.

And even after those majorities, it would take an awful lot to get even the Dems to sit up and DO something -- sometimes, I feel like they've been kicked while they're down for so long, they've forgotten how to stand up.

[PATRICK]

3. the majority of Dem candidates

will not be freewheeling outsider reformers or necessarily progressive. Right now the careful experts are looking to win with the best available with little luxury for ideological choices. So this election is very unlikely to get an impeachment now Congress, but maybe an Impeachment possibly Congress if a real dramatic smoking cannon makes the nation stop beating around the Bush.

You can see people from various sides toying with the impairment issue which would they would first have liked to aim at Cheney. Forced resignation seems as unlikely as beginning impeachment seriously. That is with all the current scandals in the state they are now in and Bush's popularity and war tanked. One more straw might do it, but I suspect it cannot be trivial. it must be dramatically more than what is openly acknowledged with wide played public evidence that scares the be-jesus even out of most Bush supporters.

Seek and ye shall find is a good adage, but the seekers so far have all been stopped short.

[longship]

4. Senate requires 2/3 to convict.

But if the Repugs lose the majority there it will likely turn loose moderate Republicans. If the evidence against ChimpCo is good enough, there could be a conviction.

[PAdem2]

5. It just ain't gonna happen

And I really don't know why so much energy is wasted on this. Reminds me of the old saying "wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which hand gets filled first". Spend your time more productively!