Comments on: Majority believe Bush has committed impeachable offenses.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:31:55 +0000

60. Bruce Gorton,

I hope that you are right. But I’ve seen enough to know that there is the law as it is written and there is the law as it is interpreted and there is the law as it is applied.

In the case of Ford and Nixon, Ford did it. Nixon now seems to be in the process of coming back into public favor.

By: jaramilr

jaramilr — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:30:51 +0000

What is the margin of error on this poll? It’s not necessarily a majority. Still, this is a big improvement. It is enough that Congress should take notice. What I take from this poll is that more people need to be educated about what Bush has been up to.

The thing about this poll that baffles me the most is that so many people don’t think it’s worth impeaching Bush for impeachable offenses. The only thing I can think of to give them the benefit of the doubt is that they think impeach automatically means remove from office. Do they really think that we shouldn’t even hold a hearing to investigate known impeachable offenses?

If progressives just started calling Bush’s actions what they are, un-American, we might get more attention. The GOP does it so why can’t we fight fire with fire?

By: Jericho

Jericho — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:29:07 +0000

Forget about impeachment. Let’s have Bush and Cheney “enhancedly” questioned to see if they are crooks. It is a matter of national security! I bet the two of them would have a lot of fascinating intelligence to share with, euhm….you know…. the people. Bringing the Bushies to Gitmo would serve the troops right for having been sent to Baghdad in the first place.

By: braintree

braintree — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:49:26 +0000

Don’t forget to impeach Cheney first. That’s mighty important.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:47:52 +0000

THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES NOT THINK HE COMMITED IMPEACHABLE OFFECES… THE REST OF THE WORLD KNOWS HE HAS COMMITED THEM. THE USA IS STANDING ALONE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY! WAKE UP AMERICA!

By: Art

Art — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:19:05 +0000

“Majority believe Bush has committed impeachable offenses.”

Too bad we don’t live in a democracy. It might actually mean something then.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:56:29 +0000

When the dems take over in 2009 and begin to use the same powers that Bush has taken for the executive office, we will see a huge outcry of “abuse of power” and pressure will come to remove those unitary powers.
But that will be because the repugnicans will be unable to bear the thought of a democrat having powers they want only for them selves and their anointed ones.

Rightfully, no president should have the unitary powers that Bush has taken, and which have been tacitly blessed by the congress, but the outcry of “abuse” has been stifled for the duration.

By: thelonegunman

thelonegunman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:07:45 +0000

obviously, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats aren’t part of the majority… but, since they’re part of the Political Elite like the Repigs, it doesn’t matter what the majority wants / believes… they blithely ignore the “will of the people” and stand by one of their own

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:56:29 +0000

Of course, if nothing is done now — whoever gets in the White House in 2009 will not want to give up the executive power grab that the Bush Killing Machine have gotten away with the past 7 years.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:51:54 +0000

read this :

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20071108213559326

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:49:04 +0000

Do you hear that, Nancy? Or are you so afraid of being “soft” on terrorism and/or bought and sold by the Israeli Lobby?

Get a backbone and impeach the “son of a Bush”.

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:36:58 +0000

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

Abraham Lincoln

ARE YOU LISTENING PELOSI? REID?

By: A Patriot Acting

A Patriot Acting — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:36:07 +0000

“I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture … and we are leading this fight by example.Quoted in “The Dark Art of Interrogation,” The Atlantic Monthly, October 2003

GEORGE W. BUSH

Our Dear Leader is ASKING us to DO SOMETHING to STOP him!

By: Peter C

Peter C — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:25:47 +0000

This level of support for impeachment is phenominally high, considering the all-but-complete media blackout surrounding the impeachment issue.

By: Peter C

Peter C — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:23:49 +0000

Davis X Machina @43,

That’s a very interesting observation. I wondered at the time why the Republicans were pushing so strongly for impeachment for such a trivial affair. You are correct, though. All the Republican Presidents (perhaps with the exception of Ford) have deserved impeachment for legitimate reasons. With impeachment out of the picture, they need only get power through the vagaries of the democratic process in order to rape and pillage on a massive scale (as they have done these past 7 years). If we refuse to pursue it for such a blatant case as Bush 43, then I fear the procedure is truly dead.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:34:51 +0000

A number of us who pay attention have long been aware of the deceit and corruption of the Bush-Cheney (and formerly Delay) triumviri; however, it is the willingness of the Democratic majority (and near majority) to confront them seriously on any substantive issues that has me most concerned. I’m afraid we have more ONO Democrats than we can tolerate!

By: Bruce Gorton

Bruce Gorton — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:00:15 +0000

MapleStreet

Which is why the US constitution actually has an exception to the president’s ability to pardon: A president cannot pardon in the case of impeachment.

Which is to say that Ford’s pardon of Nixon was actually downright unconstitutional.

By: Bruce Gorton

Bruce Gorton — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:58:02 +0000

Americans no longer demonstrate a willingness to hold their leaders accountable, and thus begins America’s descent into Africa.

By: Max-1

Max-1 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:13:28 +0000

PRINCIPLES!
It’s all about
PRINCIPLES!

Is torture EVER an American Principle?

Is spying on your own people, in contravention of the very law crafted to protect these same people from such an abuse EVER an American Principle?

Zoning free speech is an American Principle?

Etc….

By: bloodshot

bloodshot — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:27:31 +0000

Can someone ask Nancy Pelosi why she is not acting President and george bush and dick cheney not facing the death penalty.

he War Crimes Act of 1996 makes cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees a violation of the Geneva Conventions and a federal crime. In addition, a 1994 law, 18 USC Section 2340 (a), makes it a federal crime to engage in torture outside the US, it also applies to those who conspire with (or aid and abet or order) torture outside the US. Both statutes apply to any US national, including the President, the Vice President and other top officials, as well as subordinates, such as CIA officers or other US personnel. If the President ordered, directed or authorized waterboarding or other forms of torture or mistreatment, he may have violated these laws. They carry the death penalty in cases where victim dies. In such cases there is no statute of limitations, so the President could be subject to prosecution for the rest of his life.