Two States Bills of Impeachment Possible.
Finally, some states with balls are doing the work that we expect from our Congressmen and Senators. How do the people get rid of a despot? An Administration which has lied, stolen, destroyed our economy, (they say it is coming back, but what is going to happen to our economy when the bills come due for all the money, $9 trillion, that they have borrowed), took us kicking and screaming into two wars and violated our Constitution, Laws and Treaties.
As long as the Democrats and those few Republicans who are moderate do nothing to keep the checks and balances which the Constitution states is their job, this Administration can get away with murder. If it is an illegal war, then it is murder.
Leading Democrats in Vermont plan to decide in April whether to urge state lawmakers to petition for President Bush’s impeachment using a little-known provision in the rules of the U.S. House.
Democratic committees in at least half of the state’s 14 counties have passed resolutions calling for impeachment, citing a rule in “Jefferson’s Manual,” a book of parliamentary guidelines written by Thomas Jefferson that supplements U.S. House rules.
The resolutions accuse the Bush administration of lying about the case for war in Iraq and illegally engaging in electronic surveillance of Americans.
They rely on “Jefferson’s Manual,” which says impeachment proceedings can begin “by charges transmitted from the legislature of a state.” {Read}
Go Vermont, Go! Lead us through this wasteland we are in with this Administration. Power to the People!
The State of Rhode Island is at least talking about using this same rule. These Articles of Impeachment for President George W. Bush for High Crimes and Misdemeanors has been drawn up.
WHEREAS, United States House of Representatives rules allow for setting a federal impeachment in motion by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State or territory; and
WHEREAS, The State of Florida and the former territory of Mississippi have established precedent by referring such charges to Congress, which in each case resulted in Congress ordering a Committee to investigate and report on the charges, and which in one case resulted in the impeachment hearings of Judge Charles Swayne of Florida; and
WHEREAS, George W. Bush, President of the United States, has so conducted himself and his office as to cause the people of the State of Rhode Island to doubt his integrity and to believe that his official actions as president have constituted High Crimes and Misdemeanors having repeatedly and intentionally violated and ignored the United States Constitution and other laws of the United States; and {Read}
This one is so good that I am tempted to have it all on this page. But, I think it is fair that the person who did the work, gets the visitors to their site. I beg you to go to the link and read it. There are many good “WHEREAS” that I have thought about, but more that never entered my mind.
Unless we change the makeup of the Congress and the Senate, it will never happen. Mr. Bush and his gang will walk away without ever having to answer for their behavior, while occupying these offices. Every one is accountable for their actions. Every one is under the laws. Every one should have to answer for their crimes.
Fight the fight now! Get your State to join in. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe if enough States pass these impeachment bills, Congress will grow some balls!
