What is it going to take to get Bush impeached????

[im10ashus]

1) The White House last week quietly asked for another $35 billion for Iraq. That puts the total for the war close to $300 billion. Remember, this was the $20 billion dollar war Bush sold to Congress, with Iraqi oil revenues paying for most of it.

2) The Katrina briefing videos showing Bush being told the levees could break and flood New Orleans. 2 days later, Bush went on TV and said “no one anticipated the levees breaking”

3) He just sucks. Is that grounds for impeachment?

4) The domestic spying

5) The domestic torture

6) The international torture

7) The secret prisons to torture people

8) Use of intelligence that lead us to war

9) Lack of intelligence that lead us to war

10) Gitmo

11) Abramoff

12) DeLay

13) Nominating Harriet Meiers on the basis of her religion

14) Energy Commission cover up

15) Abuse of power with Recess Appointments

16) Abuse of Alcohol

17) “Mission Accomplished”

Ok… I don’t have enough time… you fill in the rest. I guess if the issue doesn’t have the word “job” and/or “blow” in it, Republicans don’t care.

[MADem]

1. Well, he sure blew the job he was (s)elected to fill!

But without a CLENIS, you just can't make them sit up and take notice, ah reckon......

[im10ashus]

6. OK damn it.

I am so glad I wasn't drinking anything at the time. That's hilarious.

:rofl:

[Avalux]

2. Democratic Majority in Congress

Can't do crap unless we have that, no matter what the boy king has done or does, unfortunately.

[sasquatch]

8. BINGO!

[Catherine Vincent]

15. Everyone here keeps saying that's what it will take but

I'm wondering if the Democrats would have the guts to do it? It makes you wonder.

[im10ashus]

18. I am wondering the same thing. n/t

[anarch]

26. it sure as hell is NOT going to happen with a Repub majority, though

I think that's everyone's point when they say this.

[davidwparker]

3. Dems taking back the House and Senate.

[Roon]

9. Even if we did take back the house and senate

The dems are so spineless, they won't do anything.

[Broadslidin]

20. I have the uneasy feeling, the Dems would just Fluff Off Impeachment...

With the lazy excuse,

'This Sociopath puppet :silly: president has only two years left in office.'

[davidwparker]

24. You're most likely right. I was being hopeful. Chances are deals would

be made and the collusion would continue.

[Penndems]

4. It's gonna take a majority of the electorate to elect a

Democratic Congress to get the impeachment ball rolling.

[WI_DEM]

5. Well, a Democratic Majority in Congress would help

[Initech]

7. Bush could kill and eat a live deer on national television

And Limpballs and Insanity would explain that Bush is "trying to get in touch with his natural side."

Really - these people are so delusional it's absolutely unbelievable.

[Clark2008]

11. Not to quibble, but if he killed a deer it wouldn't be a "live" deer

any longer.

:hi:

:) That just struck me funny. ;)

[zbdent]

10. Control of the House

now, to get a conviction, it will take at least 61 Dem Senators, and even then, a miracle . . .

Without the definitive supermajority, we wouldn't stand a chance at conviction, which is what people THINK the impeachment is . . . Clinton was impeached, not convicted.

An impeachment of Bush43 without the supermajority of the Senate would be like the murder trial of OJ Simpson . . . a waste of time without a real sense of accomplishment . . .

[katty]

12. ask this question EVERYDAY-how much more of this heinous crap??!!

[Cleita]

13. Some Republican Congress members who finally realize that

they are Americans first and Republicans second. Then along with the Democrats they can demand an investigation that could lead to impeachment. I'm sure many of our corrupt members of Congress have remained silent because KKKarl Rove has dossiers on them that he is using to blackmail them. Maybe, we the people, should demand an investigation of Rove first.

[noonwitch]

14. It'll take a dead girl or a live boy in his bed, as the saying goes.

I'd give credit, but I don't know whom to give it to.

[pitohui]

17. edwin edwards of louisiana EOM

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[pitohui]

16. a democratic congress EOM

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[regnaD kciN]

22. Exactly...!

Face facts. Without a Democratic majority, it's all irrelevant. There's no way Bush could do anything that would cause a significant bloc of Republicans (over half of them in the Senate in order to convict, for example) to turn against their leader. With a Democratic majority, especially considering that it could form investigative committees with subpeona power to bring even more information to light, the equation becomes quite different.

But expecting the current Republican congress to impeach and convict Bush is a little like doing your retirement planning based on winning PowerBall -- it's nice to dream about, but virtually impossible.

[MadisonProgressive]

19. Medicare lies and obstruction

[im10ashus]

21. I should have thought of that.

Good points.

[kenny blankenship]

23. He's quite safe.

By the time a Democratically controlled House and Senate could be installed, it will be long past time when it would be politically expedient to impeach him.
Rather than obsess about his punishment, which won't come, and which if it did come would be ludicrously disproportionate to the hideousness of his crimes (unless that is he were to be handed over to the people of Iraq for trial), Democrats should focus their energies on a thorough investigation of the abuses of the Bush executive and the Republican Party.

[Independent_Liberal]

25. A Democratic landslide victory in 06.

I hope the Democrats get huge margins in the House, Senate, Governorships, and State Legislatures.

John Conyers is getting ready for it.

www.johnconyers.com

Sign on the efforts of his "impeachment encampment." That's what I like to call it. :)

I was talking with a friend at work today and mentioned impeachment. She said she doesn't think it will ever happen. I guess I should have reminded her when the Democrats win back Congress this November.