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"Grounds for impeachment?"

Of course it is, but our leaders have been shredding the Constitution for years and nothing will happen, h#ll, my Republican representative voted against not violating the first amendment in the most recent CFR bill. We strict constructionists are just blowing hot air around here...wake me when the revolution begins.

NO QUESTION, a devastating "Turn of Events,"--& I am TRULY WORRIED that "we" have been "sold out;"--but REMEMBER, the "Bushies" play CHESS, NOT "CHECKERS!"

I'm willing to "cut them a little slack" on this issue; "We'll See!"

Doc

Grounds for impeachment?

Unless violation of the oath of office can be construed as a high crime or misdomeaner, no. Such violation is not defined in law as a crime at all, so I don't think there is a leg to stand on there. Certainly it's not treason, by Constitutional definition thereof, or bribery, in and of itself that is, so there are no grounds for impeachment.

Time to change boxes, and in fact that is being done, although a jury will probably never see the case, the courts are now being brought into the picture. The soap box has failed, the ballot box has failed, if the "jury box" similarly fails, to preserve and protect the Constitution, there remains only one box left.

Paging Claire Wolfe, is it time yet?

Bush swore to uphold and protect the Constitution. Grounds for impeachment?

Perhaps, not by itself. However, constitutional scholars have agreed that Presidents may be impeached for nothing more than "bad acts" committed while in office. Such acts are broad enough in scope to include serious lapses in personal behavior which disgrace the office as Clinton did or acts of betryal or treason such as eviscerating our nuclear deterrent for example as Bush is doing and providing aid and comfort to the enemy by providing them with the means to attack and destroy us as both Bush and Clinton have done in regards to their appeasement of the Butchers of Beijing. So in regards to your question as to whether grounds exist to impeach this President, I believe that one views the full scope of the bad policies and actions which Bush has perpetrated while holding the office of President, the answer is clearly yes. Whether this one betrayal of the Constitution rises to an impeachable level would be a much more open question.

The really sad thing is that we have set a very bad precedent by failing to convict a President as treacherous as Bill Clinton in that we have set the bar for Presidential actions while in office lower than ever which allow bad Presidents who act in direct contravention to the constitution and to America's national security interests like Bush to get off scot free.