IMPEACH Haley Barbour-It "Could Start A Healthy Trend" (Steve Clemons)

[kpete]

Steve Clemons of the Washington Note is all for impeachment . . . of MS Gov (and former RNC Head) Haley Barbour.

Among Steve’s concerns:

* Barbour continues to recieve payments from his former lobbying firm, which is heavily involved in Katrina recovery business;

* He has made numerous nepotism appointments, again tied to Katrina-related recovery;

* Barbour has “a Bill Frist like problem of not being blind about what was inside his blind trust”

Much of the work on the story comes from Bloomberg reporter Timothy Burger, to whom Clemons gives full credit and a link for even more juicy details.


From Steve Clemons:

August 29, 2007
Impeach Haley Barbour

Americans want a good impeachment, but the will is just not there yet to seriously go after the President or Vice President.

But what about Haley Barbour?

Barbour, whether as Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Chairman of the National Policy Forum; Chairman and Proprietor of the lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers; or now Governor of Mississippi, has demonstrated obsessive disregard for the line between public ethics and private gain.

Mississippians should impeach him because he's undermined the interests of their state -- and many around the country should help.

Iraq is an ongoing tragedy -- but so is Katrina. Impeaching Haley Barbour could start a healthy trend.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002303.php

[Maddy McCall]

1. Won't work in Mississippi.

BTW, I K/R'd this.

Barbour will never be impeached in Mississippi, because the majority of Mississippians have bought into the belief that "Haley's doin' a good job with Katrina recovery."

Our Democratic gubernatorial candidate isn't interested in defeating Barbour. All he wants is to get his name in the media to benefit his lawfirm. Media in the state don't want to report on Barbour's nepotism--and, hell, most don't even know what a blind trust is, or why it matters that Haley has 20/20 vision of his "blind" trust.

It's futile. It's not because Mississippians are stupid: it's because the media aren't doing their job here, to educate the people about what is going on.

[tularetom]

2. I'm all for it - don't like his televangelist hair cut

And he is a supreme asshole. But does their state constitution provide for it?