What Lazs said about old hippes...
Originally posted by RightF00T
but thats the whole problem with the system: no one thinks they have a voice to really do anything.
I do, I vote.
The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Treason and bribery are out.
High crimes and misdemeanors...
High- in the legal parlance of the 18th century means "against the State". A high crime is one which seeks the overthrow of the country, which gives aid or comfort to its enemies, or which injures the country to the profit of an individual or group. In democracies and similar societies it also includes crimes which attempt to alter the outcome of elections.
The first impeachment conviction by the U.S. Senate was in 1804 of District Judge John Pickering for the high crime and misdemeanor of chronic intoxication. Federal judges have been impeached and removed from office for tax evasion, conspiracy to solicit a bribe, and making false statements to a grand jury. Bill Clinton was impeached on to his conviction of perjury.
So: GWB has not been accused of tax evasion, or giving false testimony.
Haliburton! Haliburton is the group which profited at the expense of the country!a cry in the wiliderness... one would have to show that the war was started with the intent of profiting Haliburton and not for the stated reasons.
But the war started on a lie! There were no WMD's!The consensus of intellegence agencies of several different countries was that SH had WMD's. The call just before the war was "Let the inspectors have just a little more time!" not "They already verifed that all the WMD's are gone!"
He fixed the election! Remember hanging chads?!Recounts all showed GWB winning against Gore in Florida.
PBS Link In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" -- ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through -- to be counted.
And anyway if GWB is so stupid, how could he have rigged the election?
So the charges on which to base impeachment are what?
