What is going on in America? I read reports of impeachment etc.?

Question

I keep seeing news of people being impeached and being brought before the Senate etc. but I always skip political news cos it's, well, boring.

What's happening over there?

Answer 1

We have a Constitutional Crisis in America, the separation of powers between the Executive and Legislative branch is what is at issue. The Legislative branch of our government more or less wrote a blank check for the Executive branch on the lead up to war. The Congress/Legislative branch has been thwarted on oversight of the war by the Administration and the Congress is caustic on how the Administration executed the war. The legislative body, then Republican controlled left the decision making to President Bush and gave him the authorization to proceed. Since then the Congress has made a shift in power by the Dems winning key elections to gain majority in the lower house and closing the gap in the upper house. In the meantime, the Bush Administration has disappointed their own party because of the lack of competence to manage the war, the continuing clumsy response from the Bush Administration on national disasters like Hurricane Katrina; recently the Attorney General has come under fire for politicizing US attorneys, the Conservatives are beside themselves because the President has added adtitional bureacracies, one of which is the Departement of Homeland Security, now he wants a "War Czar" to manage the war burecracy, these are a few examples of increased government spending 10 fold since he has been in office. To add insult to injury, our DOW has closed beyond 13k points, which would make those outside looking in think that the American economy is humming. Well we have more going out of the country than what is coming in. And so, the electorate is losing their jobs, homes, manufacturing is going elsewhere, like Hoover Vacum Company a longstanding Corporate citizen in Canton, Ohio, is closing it's headquarters in this small town, moving to Mexico. This is the back drop of the argument for impeachment. In the lead up to the war, it was Vice President Cheney who made the case for war on all of the major news channels and stump speeches throughout the country. It turns out that more than 90% of what the American public has been told by our Vice President is wrong. Over 3200 Americans have been killed in Iraq, pundits say 600,000 Iraqis have been killed, and we, the United States have no face saving way out. According to our Generals, the majority of military equipment must be rebuilt and re-stocked. Prior to the war, our President told every country, that we will go it alone. In the last 4 years we have spent $4 billion on this war and what have we gained? This is why you are hearing the rumblings of impeachment..

Answer 2

America is run with a two party system (Republican, Democrat). Because the voter percentage of each party is right at 50% - 50% the last 7 years, and where one vote in the senate can make a big difference in the outcome, each party is trying its best to gain the edge by launching multi-point attacks on the other.

To sway the voters, more agressive methods of campaigning developed over the last 20 years include books (written by authors paid by a party commitee) in historical style to sway voters, movies that lend credibility to a party's stand (Al Gore's), "news" channels that can be identified as Republican or Democrat (Fox vs CNN), and the now popular "I'm gonna impeach you" syndrome that EACH party begins up to two years before a presidential election. It's all the rave.

This is what's happening here in politics in America.

Answer 3

hell, thats what.
i dont even think america itself knows what is going on exactly. i live in it and im still confused. nothing makes sense anymore and the people that are in office are only there for the money, not for the well being of the country and its people. its not all peaches and cream here, like other countries might think.

Answer 4

Americans are sick of the War and we are sick of Bush and his corrupt Republican regime!

More and more news is coming out that Bush & Company cherry picked, selected, and manipulated the info on the Iraq War that was meant to mislead the Public!

So the grass roots movements are trying to:

IMPEACH THE BA$TARD!

And rightly so!

Answer 5

The usual stuff.

Thankfully, we have a political system that allows our leaders to be called to the carpet now and again.

Answer 6

Nothing much. Just your usual politics. Sounds like your papers' headlines are a little overblown. It is the same ol', same ol' political in-fighting that we all have. War makes it more interesting, but it really is nothing new.

Answer 7

liberal democrats are trying simply to get back at Bush. Nothing more.

Answer 8

liberals are mud slingers nothing more,alls well in USA.