If congress has the votes should Bush be impeached or just censured?
2007-07-09 10:51:13 · 18 answers · asked by salmonbear 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It requires a simple majority of the House to either file a Bill of Impeachment, or a non-binding resolution of Censure.
For impeachment, the Senate would need to vote 2/3 to convict for it to have any significant effect. That's not going to happen.
For censure, the Senate doesn't need to get involved, or they can independently vote a simple majority for their own censure.
Anyone who looks at the facts objectively must admit that Bush's own acknowledgment of having violated federal law warrants a trial for Impeachment. Even those who support him, if you look at the legal arguments -- Bush has admitted violating federal law. He has raised affirmative defenses (justification, privilege, etc). But those must be raised at trial, just like any other defense. So, whether he is ultimately found guilty (assuming a fair non-political trial, which would never happen) there is no question of the prima facie case for the violation.
2007-07-09 10:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
There are issues i could desire to work out him impeached for. yet given his day "in court" they could teach the WMDs have been in Iraq yet Saddam did not pass away them present wrapped for our information journalists embedded with the troops to discover, that replaced into not a lie. neither is the transferral of those illicit components and technologies to Iran and Syria, the place if conflict breaks out, you are able to assume to work out the "information". The failure to grant the rustic and that is electorate priority over Mexico, the failure to enforce present immigration regulation or prosecute drug smugglers, the pandering to Halliburton, those are inexcusable acts. Making the blunders of seeing a "sturdy part" in Iraq replaced into sheer stupidity or questionable allegiance to the Saudis. If Bush replaced into in basic terms impeached or censured it could in basic terms be a huge media teach, waste of money, and absence of genuine progression on important subject concerns (like who tried poisoning all our pets and why, of the ballooning defecit/national debt, coming social secure practices give way, etc.) and Cheney could in trouble-free terms take over if Bush have been bumped off, being just about impossible and exceptional. that is all a huge teach for the 2008 elections. i'm hoping by using then that a million. reps get their act jointly and submit a good candidate and a couple of. human beings take a sturdy look at what dems promised and what they did--$900 billion in new spending? I belong to the technology that's getting the bill for all this bull. Impeach all of them the way by using vote casting out all incumbants each and every election till they get a clue.
2016-11-08 20:36:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trust me on this one. If congress had the votes he'd have already been impeached by now. Of course the senate would acquit since there are no "high crimes or misdemeanors" as stipulated in article two of the constitution but I can promise you that if the house had the votes, they'd have done it by now anyway. They can always figure out ways to waste their time with partisan political BS instead of getting on with improving the government process.
2007-07-09 11:06:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Bush will never be impeached and/or censured. War with Iran and martial law in US are comming up soon!
2007-07-09 10:57:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Impeached and removed from office. They need to impeach Cheney too.
2007-07-09 12:34:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Impeach both Bush and Cheney, hanging them from the highest yardarm as a warning to all who dare to steal elections again, start wars where none was needed, and try to fix Social Security by selling it to Wall Street.
2007-07-09 10:59:09 · answer #6 · answered by for Da Ben Dan--Dennyhill 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
That damn proof of an impeachable offense is going to come out one of these days. I'm just yearning to see it.
2007-07-09 11:01:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Impeach both Bush and Cheney.
2007-07-09 10:57:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Neither, actually, because they don't amount to anything.
However, if Congress wishes to do so then they should do so. If not, then accept that the question of impeachment is pointless.
2007-07-09 10:54:21 · answer #9 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Wait until he's out of office in 2009, then pursue criminal charges normally. Saves a lot of rigamarole and expense and he won't be able to invoke "Executive Privilege."
Oh, and don't repeal the Death Penalty just yet.
2007-07-09 11:00:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋