Impeachment is no longer an option

[mtnsnake]

IT'S AN OBLIGATION.

Impeachment isn't just something we SHOULD do. It's something we MUST do
for the general safety and well being of our country and the world.

George W Bush is getting more desperate by the second. He's trying anything in the book to keep himself from looking like a total failure in Iraq. With each successive failure that passes, he tries something more drastic. After his latest surge in the number of troops fails, and it will, are we willing to risk taking any more chances on what he'll try next?

The best way to stop this madman from getting everyone killed is to impeach him and/or convict him, and get him the fuck out of power...by having him resign (impeachment alone might do that to him) or by going for the full monty, convicting him, and landing him into a jail cell where he belongs....where he can never again harm another person or creature on the face of the earth. Don't worry about the conviction part. It would probably never come to that because Bush would most likely resign first, rather than take a chance. BTW, saying with such certainty that we can't convict him is like saying you don't have confidence that Bush lied and committed crimes. Yeah, I know we need investigations first.

Bottom line, impeachment is no longer a choice. Now that we've gotten more than the necessary 1-vote majority it takes to impeach, impeachment of Bush is no longer some posting board pipe dream. Our Democrats owe us this one.

Just the THREAT of impeachment had a great deal to do with Nixon resigning. Imagine what would run through Bush's mind were he to find himself in that same position. Think about it.

[Dhalgren]

1. You are right. Once he has "nuked" somebody it will be too late.

And don't say "he wouldn't" or "couldn't" - because anyone who has been paying attention should know the he could and must conclude that he would. We can no longer rely on the old bromide that "they" wouldn't "let" him use a nuke. I am not at all confident in that. We have to disarm this maniac before he kills again; he is a serial killer, but not an "unsub" - we know exactly who he is and where he is. He has to be brought to justice...now...

[NYCGirl]

2. It took Nixon's OWN PARTY going to him and telling him he would be impeached

to make him resign. I don't think the GOP is ready to go to Bush in the same manner.

[Parisle]

3. A logical litmus test,.....

--- If we are not currently (and genuinely) facing the contingency scenario for which the Constitutional Framers provided the impeachment option, then just what the hell might the framers have been concerned about? They probably recognized that the mere words on a "goddamned piece of paper" could be endlessly re-interpreted until a George Bush happened along.

--- We all know how federal bureaucrats regard their budget appropriations,.. "Use it, or lose it." I submit to you that the Constitutional legal machinery for impeachment may be looked upon in the same way. What do you think Bush would be doing right now if the remote, but still very real possibility of impeachment did not exist? Scary, huh?

[HughBeaumont]

4. It'd certainly be a nicer prospect if we weren't replacing Idi Amin with Pol Pot.

But this has to be stopped. Mankind can't wait until 1.20.2009.

[partylessinOhio]

5. This Congress will do nothing to stop this madman. We are screwed.

The second day of the new session is filled with the same old argumentative speeches. The 100 hours will pass with little having been done.