What is it about impeachment that has the Democratic Party leadership so frightened? Both you and FrankC seem to think that's NOT an option. I'm wondering when the American people will get off their asses and DEMAND it. Clinton got impeached for a BLOW JOB and lying under oath. I say impeach Bush and Cheney and let them squirm their way out of it.

>Many of the administration's impeachable acts relate directly to the war, so hearings would only build support for ending it.
>Does the public opposes impeachment? If Bush has committed impeachable acts, it is inappropriate for House members, all of whom swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, not to act.

>Impeaching Bush would mean making Cheney president-if Cheney were to become president given his stunning lack of support among the public-currently about 9 percent and falling-he would be unable to do anything. His own party would be certain to remove him because they would not want to be going into the 2008 election with Cheney as party leader.

>Take the case of Bush's ordering the National Security Agency to spy on Americans' communications without a warrant. A federal judge has already labeled this violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act a felony.

> How about Bush's refusal to enact over 1200 laws or parts of laws duly passed by Congress? What Congress must do is decide whether this usurpation of its Constitutional role is an impeachable abuse of power.

>How about the president's authorization of kidnap and torture? We know the president did not, as required by US and international law, act to halt torture and punish those up the chain of command who oversaw systematic, widespread torture.

There are many impeachable crimes by this president (and vice president), such as obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame outing case, conspiracy (or treason) in the Niger "yellowcake" document forgery scandal, conspiracy to engage in election fraud, lying to Congress, criminal negligence in responding to the Katrina disaster, bribery and war profiteering, etc., which would require Judiciary Committee investigations.

If this president is not to be impeached, Congress may as well re-write the Constitution to remove the impeachment clause.

Some of this was from:
The Democrats and the Impeachment Clause
By DAVE <LINDORFF>