Impeach Bush?
 

I guess I just need to watch, listen to or read the news more often...did you hear that impeaching President Bush has been brought up by some democratic representatives?

Is this news? Or old news? What do ya'll think?

Same old news from the first term.

Many Democratic partisans will, of course, regard this as tit-for-tat: a condign repayment for the Republicans' impeachment of Clinton. But no two impeachments are alike, and there are interesting differences between the cases of Clinton and Bush. Clinton had undeniably committed two felonies -- perjury and obstruction of justice -- in his desperate efforts to conceal his sexual misconduct. But his supporters argued that these offenses didn't rise to the level of the "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" for which the Constitution authorizes impeachment. In the case of Bush, the misdeeds of which he is accused seem more clearly of this type; it is whether they were indeed crimes, and whether Bush in fact committed them, that is disputed.

Bear in mind that, while it is the House that has the power to impeach a president, it is the Senate that would try him, and that could (by a two-thirds vote) remove him from office. Thus Clinton was impeached by the House, and tried by the Senate, but the vote to remove him failed when only 50 senators, instead of 67, voted to do so.

Bitter over the call of 2000 rejecting solidly the "mandate" of the left, they now are on a campaign to smear the current administration. This could backfire as it did in 1980. If the Republican party had any backbone, they would expose this farce. If they had backbone, they would still be in control, and they would have enforced real change, not growth in government.

Apathy will reign supreme in the primaries, now looking like the first one will be in August the way they keep moving them up to be "first."

Good post, BOOM!