Yeah, this is going to be a down and dirty wrestling match for prez this time around. This appeared last week and is getting a moderate amount of play. Kucinich has a slim to none chance of winning, but he’s setting a tone… No, it’s already pretty dirty. Just ask Obama. Or Hillary.
So, any of you think we should impeach Bush? Of course, we’d then get Cheney who I think it’s fair to say would not provide the kind of change impeachment seeks to implement.
UPDATE: Salt Lake City mayor, Rocky Anderson, called for Bush to be impeached on CNN with detailed reasons for doing so. He also knocks fellow Democrats for not calling for impeachment. Watch video.
If you don’t like what’s going on in Congress, remember to complain to all of your representatives, not just GW.
Try it. you will feel better and your rep will know what you want.
Participate! don’t just complain!
We (the US) want to push Democracy on others and YOU arn’t willing to participate yourself.
All of these blog entries don’t do nuthing or change anyones mind.
But, a flood of e-mails from you will geet your representatives attention!
This blog is great for fostering ideas. but like ‘speakers corner’ in te UK if you are more than 50′ away you can’t hear.
Get off your dead ass and do something constuctive.
Oh, by the way I think they are all guilty in DC not just the pres.
my 4c.
Anyone who thinks Bush should be impeached, but does not think Gore should be executed for crimes against humanity for the crap he’s trying to pull is being biased and not even worth listening to.
Bush should be impeached for lying America into a false war.
Bush should be impeached for repressing the truth about global warming.
Bush should be impeached for being stupid.
Bush should be impeached for being lazy.
Bush should be impeached for being mean and heartless.
Bush should be impeached for wanting to start World War III and nuking Iran.
But first impeach Cheney.
“Bush should be impeached for being stupid.
Bush should be impeached for being lazy.
Bush should be impeached for being mean and heartless.”
If that were criteria for impeachment, we would have impeached about 90% of our past presidents by now.
Funny. I expected Kucinich to sound all shrill and extreme, from what I’ve read about him in the media. Yet there he is, all temperate and thoughtful and saying stuff that’s utterly reasonable to consider. He’s not even recommending impeachment – just the discussion.
I’m not convinced he’s right, though. The neo-cons have already deserted Bush. (For the “show me a citation or you’re fulla crap” crowd: http://tinyurl.com/yn2g24 )
As someone pointed out in reply to a rather intemperate display of distrust I made regarding the biggest thief in the White House (Cheney), even Poppa Bush seems to be crying about his son’s performance. A far cry from Poppa’s “leave my brilliant son alone” remark of, I dunno, a year or two ago.
Bush will be hard-pressed to get cooperation from military officers if he asks them to extend their forces even further past the point than they are now of seeing reasonable hope of carrying out their mission as defined by the regime’s True Believer In Chief.
The time to impeach this offense against the office of the presidency was in 2003, but that was long before the supposed “opposition” party started to find a spine. There is risk in letting this incompetent, God-consulting fool continue in office, yes. But serious impeachment proceedings would bring a greater risk – that the right-wing corruptos posing as “conservatives” might regain control of the legislative branch.
Continue the public investigations into misconduct. Throw more light on the past few years of government by cockroach. Don’t divert the cleansing spotlight over to an impeachment proceeding, in the badly gerrymandered House, that has no hope of conviction in the Senate.
Look at the smug attitudes of the Bush apologists. They seem to hope it will happen. Bush is deadlocked anyway, so there’s no downside for the corruptos. Impeachment is tempting only in a temper-tantrum sort of way. Cheap revenge. Not worth it.
Speaking of smug, anyone who disagrees with radicals like Kucinich are “Bush Apologists” now?
Funny.
I say try it. In fact I hope the Democrats start impeachment proceedings as soon as possible. G’head. See how it affects the 2008 elections.
Instead of impeaching, why not transfer Bush to president of Iraq? He could serve a life time term over there and accomplish His dream of bringing Democracy to the Middle East.
Does impeachment effectively nullify the damage he has done to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution? Couldnt some of this be reversed?
Doesnt matter. Impeach. Convict. Punish the criminal, in tandem with Dead Eye Dickless Cheney.
Even though impeachment is a non-starter, raising the topic can still serve a purpose. Before we choose our next president, we need to be reminded that religion doesn’t necessarily imply honesty and respect for our man-made laws here on earth. I’m sure whatever infractions Bush committed while in office were fully approved by God himself.
On a side note, I’d love to see how Cheney dresses when he’s impersonating God
the only solid grounds (AFAIK) for impeaching Bush would be for wholesale violation of FISA.
But, given that the GOP members of congress would never go for it, and the Democrats don’t have the numbers, I say don’t impeach him, but rather criminally prosecute him once he has left office. There is nothing in the Constitution that provides a president with immunity from prosecution for misdeeds he committed in office.
President Bush should be impeached for incompetence, starting the war on Iraq when the obvious truth was that we should have gone to war with the Islamic government in Sudan.
Bush should have been impeached about 6 years ago
Get Elected, Get Impeached… Sounds like a new trend…
#4
“Find the law he broke and you’ll have something. Until then the impeachment crap will continue to cost the left middle-of-the-road voters.”
Considering his decisions (approved by congress!) directly resulted in the deaths of 3000+ Americans and tens of thousand of Iraqis, I think “Crimes Against Humanity” would be an appropriate charge.
Absolutely President Bush 43 should be impeached.
Many of the previous post have no validity, they merely express the lefts hatred of the right.
The factual reason Bush 43 should be impeached is that he has violated the Oath of Office to uphold the united States Constitution.
This will not happen, because all but a handful of the federally elected officials since 1913 are guilty of the same.
This country was never intended by our founding fathers to be a socialist / fascist nation.
I believe Bush is guilty of many crimes but impeachment has never worked and probably never will. Trying to get congress to convict a man for the same crimes they are committing just isn’t going to happen.
Besides that, it is my understanding that he is already pardoned for all crimes in legislation passed last fall.
I’m against Bush and everything he has done, but the Democrats are just as bad, and they act as co conspirators with Bush. They have done nothing to stop the war and the abuse of the Constitution. They have done nothing to stop the continued looting of our treasury nor the illegal signature with comment that Bush invented letting him sign bills into law while saying they will never be enforced.
The press acquiesces to all this as willingly as the Democrats and nobody, save a few who get their news on the internet, even know about the worst of all this. The press has failed us in our time of need and our grandchildren will still be paying for this administration into their old age.
(From the video) Iran doesn’t have the intention of attacking the US?! They HAVE attacked US citizens by supplying terrorists in Iraq with weapons for the express purpose of kiling Americans. I’m not saying attacking Iran is a good idea, but to say that they have no intention of attacking the US (or any of its people) is preposterous.
#7
You expect justice from a body of men (the Senate) that stated point blank on camera before they were asked to vote Guilty/Not Guilty (their only choices), “Yes he (Clinton) lied (to the Grand Jury), but we don’t think he should be impeached.” You think that the circus wouldn’t be as comical with Bush?
There have been many vilified Presidents in our past and many of those had calls for impeachment including Lincoln. It is simply not going to happen nor will any sort of prosecution afterwards.
#34
I think you should talk with some Armenians, Germans and Sudanese about the true nature of crimes against humanity.
As much as I like Kucinich, I don’t think there is a chance in hell of Imprechment even being properly discussed. If the GOP believed that Clinton’s BJ was impeachable, then Bush is somebody who should executed on national television, followed by anybody who worked for his White House… and then all their families shot in the head and thrown into the lime pits.
But the Democrats don’t have the balls to do it. So, I have reluctently come to hope for a coup in our government. It is time for the Pentagon to kick over the barricades and install a Junta to rule the United States as a Imperial American Empire or some such. Congress – even a Democratic one – is full of incompetent boobs, and the White House is staffed by evil incompetent boobs. The American people want these idiots to be this stupid. So, democratic republican government has failed. It’s time for the Miltary to run the show. Why? Because at least they will execute every member of the White House Staff for their crimes. Bush wouldn’t get a trail – Just an announcement followed by his being shot in the head on the Nightly News – with a cheering crowd in full view.
No, the miltary won’t be nice to the people. But things will at least make sense. Evil, when it happens, will have an understandable purpose behind it. It won’t being this stupid version of Evil we have now. It won’t be fun, but it will be a world where things make sense.
I find it, at the pont, that Bus jr. could possibly Piss on the White house lawn, at 3pm In public View, and declare it a national monument…
And get away with it..
Let me play devil’s advocate (as I happen to think impeachment is NOT the best course) and illuminate the most basic problem: If Bush isn’t impeached and we get a democratic president in 2008, that president will likely not end the war in Iraq, and the democratic congress would be unlikely to force the issue and embarrass a sitting democratic president. So what would we get? More unending war. Also, for those who say “President Cheney”, my answer would be impeach them both, bring them both up on charges.