With all the "charges" leveled at Bush, why aren't the Dem's hard at work on the Articles of Impeachment?

Question

They have the authority and they certainly have the votes after the November election!

Either the charges are simply the hysterical rantings of the extremists on the Left...

Or the new Democratic Congress must be incompetent.

Answer 1

Good question. Notice how they keep repeating all the old tired lies, innuendos and half truths. I guess it is just a monkey see, monkey do routine. Maybe they will wake up by the next election and realize that GW is NOT a candidate for anything hence their lies were of no more benefit to them. I say lies, because if they were true, GW would ALREADY BE HISTORY.

Answer 2

Any student of politics knows that for the party in the White House to loose seats in both houses of congress especially during the second term is normal. But the democrats did not take back congressional control during the first term. So regardless of the spin, the voters liked where the republicans were taking them. Then in the second midterm elections the democrats should have been able to clean house. But they only barely beat the republicans. They only control the Senate by one seat. Many of the democrats that got elected in congress ran as moderates.

There was not a massive rejection of the republicans. There was not a massive rejection of the republicans. There was no great endorsement of the democrats. But in a second term midterm election there should have been! That does not bode well for the democrats, not by a long shot. Forget about any impeachment or radical democratic initiatives. Their control is much too tenuous for that. But if they don't take bold steps, their base will abandon them. The democrats are in the driver's seat but the ability to steer is greatly restricted.

Answer 3

It's hard for any rational person to claim that there are no grounds for impeachment when the US Supreme Court has twice confirmed that Bush violated federal law -- not to mention the number of times Bush has publicly admitted violating the law. But facts don't seem to matter to many people.

The reason Congress isn't acting on it is they don't have the will for a direct conflict, and aren't sure they can take down both Bush and Cheney in a single trial. If either survives, it just makes them look weak and foolish.

If they don't try at all, it just makes them look weak.

Answer 4

How is it that Clinton was impeached about lying about having sex and bush hasn't been impeached for lying to congress and the american puplic about a freaking war?!!!? Clinton didn't put anyone at risk. Bush has put EVERYONE at risk!! We need more people asking questions like yours. We elected these people to make a difference and nothing has happened. I thought I lived in a democracy! I thought we as a nation had rights. American no longer has many of the ideals that this nation was started on. We should be ashamed of the state of our nation. IMPEACH THE SHRUB!!!

Answer 5

Maybe because the Democrats are bright enough to figure out that, though they certainly have the votes in the house to impeach Mr. Bush, there wouldn't be enough senators to vote their conscience to convict him. So unlike the neocons, the Democrats will not waste, say eighty million taxpayer dollars on a witch hunt.

Answer 6

far as i'm able to work out a number of those so referred to as "articles" could properly be refuted and whats extra i know of a minimum of a pair Democrats which have finished the comparable issues and been praised. while did we "secret agent on human beings" I bear in mind we've been listening in on telephone numbers captured in Afganistan, if somebody in this u . s . is talking to Al quada i decide on somebody interior the government listening to it. unlawful conflict? looks like the completed congress handed the determination authorizing using stress to eliminate Saddam, A determination that supported a prior one handed and signed interior the 90s making his removal a remember of nationwide coverage. far as i'm able to work out the completed record is a load of political tripe. If this became into examine for 4 hours, it wasted the time of congress.

Answer 7

It's not worth the time to impeach him. They would rather look good and say how bad he is and let him dig his own hole. This strategy might led more republicans to vote democratic if Bush does continually worse.

Answer 8

Even San Fran Nan knows that there are no grounds for impeachment & that if they tried it would backfire.

Answer 9

We are too drunk from power that we don't know what we're doing. Nothing new here.

Answer 10

A and B, you are correct sir.