TIME TO IMPEACH!!

[deaniac21]

We are THERE!!

[helderheid]

1. PRESIDENT PELOSI 2007!

[KittyWampus]

2. Please. Pelosi has a plan already. Impeachment is not on it. Stop distracting

[Greeby]

3. You sure

Because I think the Dems have being giving their "poker face" when it comes to impeachment. Besides, Chairman Conyers has never needed permission from the party leadership to do what is right

[bryant69]

5. Yes but Conyers is smart

I think he'll investigate first - open investigations and see what shakes loose - so that impeachment is driven by the investigations not by partisan oneupsmanship.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[shadowknows69]

18. He's been investigating

I suspect he's ready to go whenever we can convince SPEAKER PELOSI!!!! It is the right thing to do or this country will not heal.

[Botany]

4. Down Boy.

"Our time will come but ..... ixnay on the peach ment ay."

When the truth comes out the republicans will lead the charge
on Dick & bush.

[helderheid]

7. 'tis an excellent point

[Xenotime]

6. Yes. Impeach.

[seabeyond]

8. no we arent and these post are irritating. first comes investigation

if shit appears america will then demand impeachment. lots of shit for dems to do

[GregD]

12. Exactly

When Conyers and Waxman start telling the country what we all recognize as truth, the truth will lead public opinion as to what is the correct next move.

[asjr]

9. We have enough on those crooks to impeach but

we would be stuck with Darth Cheney.

[helderheid]

10. we have enough to impeach him too... then we have our first woman President

[TallahasseeGrannie]

14. Can you really impeach them both? At once?

I would think first Bush, and then Cheney who would appoint a new VP before it was all over?

No way is Hilary Clinton going to let another woman be the first woman President of the United States!

[xiamiam]

16. cant get this thought out of my mind..i really think this is going to happen

and although i hate to admit it...at this point in time, its the only way a woman could be president...appointed after the indictments and impeachment...and then possibly elected...i have a strong instinct that this is the way its gonna go down...thanks for reaffirming helderheid...

[Jcrowley]

11. Obligatory

Constitutional obligation

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. Well here it is

the DU topic of the next few years. Impeach or not.

Personally, I just can't quite weigh in. On a gut level I think it would be distracting and get in the way of getting things back to where they ought to be. However, I don't know enough about Constitutional law to know whether Bush has, indeed, broken it or just pushed the envelope. I'll have to leave that up to the experts.

[mnhtnbb]

15. Pelosi has Bush by his stuffed sock--if he threatens a veto of Dem

legislative agenda, she trumps with supporting Conyers for impeachment

[Donald Ian Rankin]

17. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that take a two-thirds majority?

Unless I'm wrong about that, an impeachment attempt would achieve exactly as much as the Democratic leadership marching on Capitol Hill waving banners reading "don't vote for us in 2008". If you think the GOP are going to break ranks to impeach Bush, you can't have been watching them for the last decade.

[onenote]

19. Not. Going. To. Happen.

Pelosi, Emmanuel, others have all made clear that impeachment is not on their agenda. There will be oversight hearings, but they have been quite consistent in the message that they are focused on looking forward, not backward. They understand the politics of this far better than those who are clamoring for impeachment and imagining that somehow both chimpy and cheney are forced from office in the next two years. Not gonna happen.

And, no,Congress is not "obligated" to commence an impeachment proceeding. The hard cold reality is that impeachment is a political tool. Should it be? Probably not. But it doesn't matter. What matters is what is. And the Demcoratic leadership is not going to pursue an impeachment agenda that will energize the repub base and alienate moderate voters who are sick of the highly partisan approach that the repubs have jammed down everyone's throats the past dozen years).