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Of course anything written will be dismissed as part of a huge media plot against the GOP. So Republicans need not read it.

 

Thirty years ago, a Republican president, facing impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate, was forced to resign because of unprecedented crimes he and his aides committed against the Constitution and people of the United States. Ultimately, Richard Nixon left office voluntarily because courageous leaders of the Republican Party put principle above party and acted with heroism in defense of the Constitution and rule of law.

"What did the president know and when did he know it?" a Republican senator — Howard Baker of Tennessee — famously asked of Nixon 30 springtimes ago.

 

Today, confronted by the graphic horrors of Abu Ghraib prison, by ginned-up intelligence to justify war, by 652 American deaths since presidential operatives declared "Mission Accomplished," Republican leaders have yet to suggest that George W. Bush be held responsible for the disaster in Iraq and that perhaps he, not just Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is ill-suited for his job.

I've heard this line of thought tossed around. It is an interesting one, but I highly doubt Bush gets impeached, or that the thought even gets thrown around in congress.

I've heard this line of thought tossed around.  It is an interesting one, but I highly doubt Bush gets impeached, or that the thought even gets thrown around in congress.

Oh, the thought's there. Believe me, the thought's there. It would take a lot of cahones, however, to actually put it on the record.

The Dems would need to hold on to Congress for that to happen. Given our recent history for the level of crime needed to impeach - the last four years may indeed be higher than the bar used against the Clintons. Personally, I hope this doesn't get that far. Impeachment is bad for the nation in all but the most urgent of situations. Let's hope that administration change can happen via the ballotbox instead....

 

BTW: It's Cheney that stands the best chance of impeachment in my book anyway.