will bush ever get impeached?

Question

Do you think Bush will ever get impeached while he is still in office? Can a President after he leaves office get impeached.
What would happen politically if he did get impeached and others were implicated alongside him. Would be the biggest scandal since Watergate?

I personally don't think Mr Bush will EVER get impeached.

Answer 1

I doubt it. His term is rapidly coming to an end. He wanted to be placed in history for what he did while he was president. Well he has no problem there. Many will remember the things he did.. and in the case of New Orleans the things he did not do.

Answer 2

Do you think Bush will ever get impeached while he is still in office?

No. He hasn't done anything illegal. Nor has he done anything wrong, why would he be impeached?

Can a President after he leaves office get impeached.

No. That's sort of the entire point.

What would happen politically if he did get impeached and others were implicated alongside him.

Implicated in what? You aren't making a heck of alot of sense man.

Would be the biggest scandal since Watergate?
Would WHAT be the biggest scandal since Watergate?

I personally don't think Mr Bush will EVER get impeached
Maybe when he does something wrong or illegal.


Why do all liberals think that impeaching someone is based on not approving of their behavior? It takes an act of congress to impeach the president; and for the impeachment to be legal he needs to be charged with a crime of some sort. Neither is true in this case. Bush has committed no crimes.

I ask again, why do you want to impeach him?

On another note: a liberalist site brought up this question a while ago. I was personally asked what I thought would happen if Bush was impeached by the congress. My reply:

"That would be an attempt at a coo de ta`. There are no legal grounds for him to be impeached, so the military would continue to follow him as Commander in Chief. This would make the impeachment pointless, as he could easily proclaim himself "dictator for life" in such an event."

Answer 3

No he cannot be impeached after he leaves office. He won't be impeached as there are other things better suited for Congress to do like clean up the mess left after 6 years of neocon control .

He can be impeached (charged) but not removed from office. There are still too many Republicans in the Senate that would prevent his removal so why waste time.

The crimes of Bush will be brought up during the election next year. Those will be linked to any Republican who has supported him. That may mean a landslide for the Democrats.

The only thing I see happening in a court is in the International Court where Bush and Chene, and possibly Rummy and others will be tried for war crimes.

Answer 4

Once a president has left office he or she cannot be impeached.

Mr. Bush will not be impeached. First of all, there are no grounds for impeachment. Secondly, with less than two years left in his final term of office there is no point to impeachment.

The Democrats are making a lot of noise, but they'll never get the votes they need to start impeachment, which is actually a trial held by the Senate. If he were impeached the Senate would never muster the votes needed to remove him from office.

It would be a pointless exercise, as was the impeachment of President Clinton.

Answer 5

No, and i don't undertsand why this question gets asked at least twice every hour. Bush hasn't done anything worthy of impeachment. I don't even think you really know what Watergate really was. If you did, then you would realize how stupid it is to compare bush and watergate. Also, a president can not be impeached after leaving office. That is why nixon was not impeached.

Answer 6

Unlikely. The House won't vote the indictment for impeachment unless there is at least a reasonable chance of the Senate convicting.

It doesn't matter how many laws he's broken, how many he's admitted breaking, or how many times federal courts have confirmed he broke the law. It's up to Congress.

As a side note, I truly feel sorry for the people who keep saying that Bush hasn't done anything to warrant impeachment. They don't seem to understand how the law works. The can't seem to grasp that the President is not above the law, and that committing an act defined as a felony under federal law is a crime -- even if the person who committed the crime really meant well.

The law is the law. Sadly, Bush has broken it with impunity.

Answer 7

Getting impeached doesn't mean you get throne out of office. Clinton was impeached for lying to the grand jury, but still stayed in office. Bush will not be impeached.

Answer 8

Impeachment is getting the president out of office before his term is over - so no, he can't be impeached after serving his term. Personally I hope he does get impeached. It's funny how people spoke about impeaching Clinton for a *******, but he didn't send our children off to war in Iraq, lied about WMD's or reversed every environmental law the country has ever had.

He needs to go.

Answer 9

1. I think it's already too late to impeach him. The process takes so long he will have left office before it could be completed.
2. He can't be impeached once he has left office, but he could be indicted and tried in a court of law. But it won't happen.
3. I think Congress is too wimpy to impeach him.

Answer 10

1) Bush will not be impeached, as he has not committed any impeachable offenses.
2) There is no impeachment after an official leaves office, it would be absurd. Impeachment by the House & conviction by the Senate is for the SOLE purpose of removing that official from office.

Answer 11

All politics aside, I don't see it happening. Wartime presidents are generally sacrosanct, and even though his approval is what it is, I can't see the majority of US being willing to take on an impeachment while involved in a war.