Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Go impeach yourself
I just THOUGHT I could get by without a post today.
Go here to read about a supposed "blog swarm" to gin up demand for impeachment of President Bush.
Here is the comment I left there:
It's awful easy to throw "impeachment" around. The fact is, the House can impeach a president for about anything if it chooses to call a "high crime" or misdemeanor, then the Senate has to have a trial. All it takes is the passing of a resolution.
The great Texas congressman Henry B. Gonzalez also called for Reagan's impeachment, as well as Bush I's impeachment, over disagreements over U.S. acts of war. Go here to see his Congressional testimony on Bush I.
A better idea is for the Dems -- and I am a Dem -- to offer real alternatives that middle America can vote for, for Congress and for the presidency. If "breaking the law" were real grounds for impeachment, I dare say every president in our history could be have been impeached.
--ER
Go here to read about a supposed "blog swarm" to gin up demand for impeachment of President Bush.
Here is the comment I left there:
It's awful easy to throw "impeachment" around. The fact is, the House can impeach a president for about anything if it chooses to call a "high crime" or misdemeanor, then the Senate has to have a trial. All it takes is the passing of a resolution.
The great Texas congressman Henry B. Gonzalez also called for Reagan's impeachment, as well as Bush I's impeachment, over disagreements over U.S. acts of war. Go here to see his Congressional testimony on Bush I.
A better idea is for the Dems -- and I am a Dem -- to offer real alternatives that middle America can vote for, for Congress and for the presidency. If "breaking the law" were real grounds for impeachment, I dare say every president in our history could be have been impeached.
--ER
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Pastor Timothy, I think the stement "broken the law" is general enough that virtually every person of legal driving age has broken the law. Consider all the decisions our leaders must make, sometimes breaking the law is better than the alternatives given, for them and the rest of the country.
And sometimes it's in our daily rush that we squeak through an intersection or go a little above the speed limit. Nothing compared to war crimes or lying under oath, but it's breaking the law all the same.
And sometimes it's in our daily rush that we squeak through an intersection or go a little above the speed limit. Nothing compared to war crimes or lying under oath, but it's breaking the law all the same.
The current President lied to America and the world when he used WMD as a justification for going to war in Iraq. He lied in the State of the Union address in the months before he ordered the action.
Yet Bill Clinton was impeached for "lying" all because he took a lawyerly approach to what "is" meant in a deposition.
Sometimes, the "right" gets itself twisted up just a bit too far.
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Yet Bill Clinton was impeached for "lying" all because he took a lawyerly approach to what "is" meant in a deposition.
Sometimes, the "right" gets itself twisted up just a bit too far.
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