Hey! Impeachment? I've said it--

[Mythsaje]

and I'll keep saying until people get it.

CONGRESS FIRST!



The exit polls show that CORRUPTION was one of the voters' primary concerns. Congressional approval is in the toilet. We can do what the voters asked, investigate corruption and take care of the country's business at the same time.

By investigating Congress and rooting out corruption there, we can also collect evidence against Bush at the same time, but by a more circuitous route. He will block any direct attempts at investigating HIM, but by leveraging our investigations and evidence of Congressional misdealings, we can force the issue behind the scenes and make the Republicans starting pointing fingers at each other.

The last thing we can afford, as a country, is to let them scapegoat the President and walk away more or less unstained by the experience.

Impeachment isn't a bad goal, but we have to think big picture here. He's NOT the whole of our problem.

[rubberducky]

1. Investigations first are a MUST, then

impeachment. We must clear the air on why impeachment is so needed to clean the white house of the vermin.

[acmavm]

2. True. But considering how much we need money for things

that are needed so desperately in this country right now, an Impeachment hearing is stupid. We can't convict. We don't have the 2/3s of the Senate necessary for conviction.

There's plenty to go rooting around in and maybe, like you say, come up with some real evidence of criminal activity. Let's look into the intelligence that led us to war. Let's look into the no-bid contracts. Let's look into torture. Let's look into spying on the American people and how they've used the information they've gathered. Let's look at the gutting of our environmental laws. Let's look at this farce of a Medicare/Medicaid program. Let's look into the friggin' 2000 and 2004 elections and voter fraud and disenfranchisement. Let's further delve in Tom DeLay and K street, with included Jack Abramhoff.

Let's do something that will tell the republican party and the lobbyist and that they'd better be afraid. Damn afraid. Corruption will not be tolerated. Let's look at the BIG FRIGGIN' PICTURE.

[longship]

3. I support impeachment, but I cannot support Reps saying so.

I agree with Pelosi, and now Conyers. Dem reps cannot utter the word.
Let what happens, happen. We'll get there eventually. But we can't cross that bridge until there are investigations.

People like us can scream for impeachment all we want and that's good. I'll join in the chorus. But our Representatives must stay mute on the subject until they have concrete reasons to do otherwise.

[Staph]

4. If Madam Speaker to be is smart . . .

and we know she is, she will make her corruption investigations totally non-partisan. We need to root out the few Democratic bad apples (Mr. Jefferson of LA, I'm looking at you!) along with the bazillions of Republican bad apples. Show the world that the Democrats are the good guys!

[Mythsaje]

5. I have no problem with that...

I just think right now we'll find a lot more corrupt Republicans.