Sen Reid: Why Not Impeach Bush? - Dick Cheney

[kpete]

Why Not Impeach Bush? Dick Cheney

The degree to which the new Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill despises Vice President Dick Cheney is a big plus for President Bush. Consider why incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scrapped an idea to impeach Bush: "Two words: Dick Cheney," he says, joking that it would vault the veep into the Oval Office.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/061119/27whisplead.htm

[bullimiami]

1. cheney first. of course.

[porphyrian]

2. Cheney will likely beat the others to trial.

This is a stupid fear.

[magellan]

3. So impeach Cheney first

The investigations will lead that way, I suspect.

[roamer65]

5. Yup. Cheney's an impeachment "home run".

Mr 19% approval.

[grasswire]

4. a two-fer

we would never allow Cheney to be president.

[Wiley50]

6. REMEMBER: They Testified TOGETHER at 911 Hearings?

They should be impeached the same way.

Isn't that right, President Pelosi?

[Journeyman]

7. I'll take my chances with a hobbled Dick Cheney. . .

succeeding a President, removed through impeachment, with a Democratic Congress and a Republican party doing its best to backpeddle and put distance between itself and a thoroughly disgraced Administration. . . yeah, I'll take my chances.

[ginnyinWI]

10. prefer cheney to a new veep, because of 2008.

That repub would have more credibility when running for re-election. Don't need that!

[FogerRox]

8. A standing VP can be indicted IIRC.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Especially one that let his chief of staff

leak state secrets.

[Independent_Liberal]

16. Right, Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP, was indicted.

He was indicted for tax evasion and then he resigned and pleaded no contest to the charges.

[RC]

9. Sure, rush to impeach and watch the pardons.

[mmonk]

11. No reason to impeach the most

impeachable president and vice president (among others). We can wait. What's a few more people held without charge and/or tortured.

[wildbilln864]

13. or a few hundred more...

of our precious sons and daughters being killed by IEDs within the next year or two!?
I just watched a Mr. Drumheller say on Lou Dobbs show, that the intel was fabricated! Dobbs never sked by who. These sons of bitches need to rot in prison!
9/11!
illegal spying!
torture!
rendition!
lying to congress!
starting a war based upon bullshit!

They MUST NOT be allowed to get away with it!

[Independent_Liberal]

14. Harry, impeach the both!

[Dr Fate]

15. I'd rather have Harry provide ways to take down Bush/Cheney as opposed to more excuses.

n/t

[pat_k]

17. That old moldy rationalization?

You'd think he'd have come up with something better by now.

Goes to show how bereft of morality and logic their desperate attempts to escape their duty are.

From Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p11s01-usmb.htm">Nov 15

"One of the things that we were able to cut off pretty quickly is the 'impeach Bush' program," said Reid, referring to some Democratic activists who have that goal. "That was because of two words: Dick Cheney," he joked.

You can almost see the Members wiping their brows, and congratulating themselves for dodging the impeachment "bullet."

When I saw that last week, I thought "He joked? Impeachment is a joke? "There was a program? A program? If they had program, maybe there's more support in Congress for impeachment than we realize. Gotta find the program manager and reactivate."

[Perky]

18. I would love to impeach Dr. Strangelove but hear me outT

He may be unimpeachable. Give me a charge with which to impeach him and I am as game as anyone. but unlessyou have him lyingunder oath I don't what you would impeach with.

Evil is not a crime.