[Please read Mikael’s response to this, which is the first comment below]
A successful impeachment not possible
Contra Costa Times
Ronald Entwistle – San Pablo
Article Launched: 04/23/2007
Some frustrated and disgusted citizens are advocating the impeachment of President Bush. They are permitting their emotions to dominate their brain.
Two presidents have been impeached, but in neither case was the constitutional procedure warranted. President Andrew Johnson suffered the unjustified post-Civil War wrath of a hostile Congress, and President Clinton lied about a sexual tryst with a White House intern. Clinton’s behavior was reprehensible but, contrary to vindictive Republicans, it wasn’t impeachable.
President Nixon would have been impeached and convicted, but understood the futility of continued resistance and resigned in disgrace.
The Bush presidency has been a continuum of lies, deception, incompetence, manipulation, blunders and belligerence. His reign has been a performance lost in a jungle of illusion. But such an inept record doesn’t necessarily translate into impeachable conduct.
In any event, the larger question is: Would successful action by the House proceed to conviction in the Senate?
With a solid bloc of moderate Democratic representatives, a successful impeachment is quite problematic. Should such action reach the Senate, the current political structure renders conviction a slam-dunk impossibility.
It is self-serving myopia to advocate plunging our country into a constitutional crisis that’s guaranteed to fail.
(Original Article)
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“The national GOP is in the middle of a crisis as over 100 concurrent investigations are in process and the number is growing every day”
And I thought that Stalin’s witch hunt trials and purges were the thing of the past… neo socialists are resurrecting all the monstrosities of communism. What’s next? youth indoctrination? history revision? oh wait you are already doing it. Gulags must be just around the corner.
A “moral imperative”, it is. Frankly, not to do so by someone such as Speaker Pelosi is the equivilant of violating a legal imperative. As to her job is to move forward a constitutionally mandated investigation is a violation similar to obstruction of justice.
Ronald,
I respectfully disagree. You are assuming full knowledge of how these Representatives and Senators will respond once the evidence of criminal actions has been revealed to them and to the rest of the country. Did you see how quickly Bush distanced himself from Ken Lay when the ENRON crimes were revealed? It won’t be any differenct for Bush and Cheney.
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship, the Republican Representatives and then Senators will “painfully, and with great regret remove their support in the best interests of the nation”.
Nixon’s resignation came directly upon the heels of a Republican leadership “march” across the lawn to convince him to step down in the best interests of the country. The national GOP is in the middle of a crisis as over 100 concurrent investigations are in process and the number is growing every day.
The Constitutional Crisis you refer to has already occured. We can’t avoid it now. When the Military Commissions Act was passed, the Constitution was rendered null and void. it is a moral imperative that we do everything in our power to restore it. Every public official from City Council members to Senators as well as everyone in or formerly in the military took an oath. Each and every one is duty bound to honor it and defend the Constitution, which is under attack.
The first and most important thing to do is to do everything in our power to remove from office those domestic enemies to the Constitution that occupy the White House.
All it will take is the truth exposed and spoken into the Congressional Record. The rest will take care of itself.
Do the right thing. The time for political expediency has long since passed.
Mikael Rudolph
http://www.ImpeachforPeace.org
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