In the wake of President Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby’s prison sentence, talk of impeachment is gaining steam as a new opinion poll says that nearly half of Americans favor impeachment of the President and more than half believe Vice President Cheney should be impeached. Bill Moyers gets perspective from Constitutional scholar Bruce…
Patrick O’Connor, The Politico The refusal of former White House counsel Harriet Miers to appear before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday did not stop panel members from proceeding without her. Needless to say, the empty chair that appeared in her place was even less forthcoming than the president’s former top lawyer promised to be. Democrats…
by Dave Lindorff, Opednews.com …We’re not there yet, but thanks to a growing grassroots campaign, impeachment is being forced into public and Congressional consciousness. It is reaching a point where even the most cowardly or complicit news editors will not be able to push it aside, black it out, or deride it as a “fringe”…
Nick Juliano, Raw Story President Bush, defending his troop surge in Iraq, insisted Thursday that the insurgents attacking US troops in Iraq “are the same ones who attacked us on Sept. 11.” Bush was speaking at a White House press conference on the same day an interim progress report on his troop surge in Iraq…
