If there is so much evidence that he has been lying about Iraq and oil then why hasnt the president been impeached yet? Seems like nobody likes him either..
2007-07-16 13:07:27 · 25 answers · asked by tito 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
That is the question of the century.
Seems a lot of regular people think he should be.. we ordinary folk have no problem identifying the lies.. they were pretty clear.
But there is a lot of political mumbo jumbo about how someone lied to him.. and it was false info etc etc.. and yet it was known even before he was elected that the evil triumvirate, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were intent on getting into Iraq and going after oil and Saddam.
But it seems even the new Democratic Congress is afraid to do the right thing.. could be why they have such a poor showing if popularity
Wonder if it will take a revolution to get us back on track.. with good people and honest politicians.
2007-07-16 13:15:50 · answer #1 · answered by Debra H 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Well for the the first 6 years, the house was in the grasp of the Bush/Cheney White House. There was no way any investigations were going to be implemented. That became true, no significant inquires were started during that period.
Note: The inquiries determine if there were any improper actions to investigate, and if there were, then impeachment is possible outcome after investigations.
Now, the Democrats have control, but Peloci took impeachment "off the table" from day one! However inquiries are now taking place on a limited basis.
Watch what happens over the next six months and see how much corruption and illegality comes through. The amount that comes out will still only be limited, but it will be enough to tail spin this administration. If impeachment does not happen at least futher damage to our nation will be hampered.
2007-07-16 13:34:48 · answer #2 · answered by Hathor 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its ineffective, first the President has to commit a impeacheable offense like "treason, bribery, or different severe crimes and misdemeanors . Secondly the approach might take consistently just to start, he may well be long long gone out of place of work, before it became even began. Thirdly the democrats robotically called for it, good now they're able or maybe regarded that they does not do it. After the impeachment then the senate might ought to convict him. So not gonna happen. He hasnt broken any rules, and easily there is no reason to question him, he's gonna be long gone in a 300 and sixty 5 days, project appropriate to the subsequent president.
2016-12-14 10:53:58 · answer #3 · answered by kirk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike Bill Clinton, who was impeached for lying under oath, Bush has committed no crime. To be impeached one must show a law has been broken by the president. If people were to be impeached if they were unpopular, then not only would the president go, but so would congress.
2007-07-16 15:50:55 · answer #4 · answered by dlbt21 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lying about Iraq is not grounds for impeachment.
Violating federal laws (as he has admitted doing, and as the Supreme Court has confirmed he has done) is grounds for impeachment. Ignore the delusional people who arbitrarily deny that he has broken the law. They refuse to read the court holdings on the issue, and refuse to actually read the laws in question. There is no question that Bush broke the federal laws. He admitted it. End of debate.
The question is whether he had a legal justification for breaking those laws. However, like any other affirmative defense, that would have to be raised at the trial (impeachment proceedings).
The real reason he has not been impeached is that it is not just a legal issue. The law is clear. But the Senate is not going to vote based on the law. The Senate is going to vote based on politics.
And there is no way in this political climate that 2/3 of the Senate is going to vote to convict.
So, there is no point in the House filing a Bill of impeachment, because the Senate is never going to convict. No matter how much clear evidence is presented that the laws were broken.
2007-07-16 13:13:18 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
As far as I know there are no impeachable offenses.
It is simply a bunch on non-sense from the Democrats who are mad for power and some media outlets who are mostly made up of liberal, Democrat voting people.
The President has wide discretion to deploy the military, wage war, appoint judges, etc. Winning the office of President grants these powers through the Constitution.
2007-07-16 13:21:39 · answer #6 · answered by InReality01 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He hasn't been impeached because he has committed no impeachable offenses. The left will sling mud all day long, make all kinds of accusations but when it comes down to them charging him with something.....they can't. They have no proof which they would need to successfully impeach him. It seems like nobody likes him because the democrats are out there mud slinging and the liberal media reports their claims as facts.
2007-07-16 13:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Cinner 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He has not been impeached because the Republicans still control congress even they have lost the majority. With elections coming up and a more informed population, there is a good chance he will be brought to justice.
The Bush presidency is a lot of things. It's a secretive cabal, a cavalcade of incompetence, a blood-stained Church Militant, a bad rerun of "The Godfather" in which scary men in suits pay ominous visits to hospital rooms. But seen from the point of view of the American people, what it increasingly resembles is a bad marriage. America finds itself married to a guy who has turned out to be a complete dud. Divorce -- which in our nonparliamentary system means impeachment -- is the logical solution. But even though Bush cheated on us, lied, besmirched our family's name and spent all our money, we the people, not to mention our elected representatives and the media, seem content to stick it out to the bitter end.
There is a strange disconnect in the way Americans think about Bush. He is extraordinarily unpopular. His approval ratings, which have been abysmal for about 18 months, have now sunk to their lowest ever, making him the most unpopular president in a generation. His 28 percent approval rating in a May 5 Newsweek poll ties that of Jimmy Carter in 1979 after the failed Iran rescue mission. Bush's unpopularity has emboldened congressional Democrats, who now have no qualms about attacking him directly and flatly asserting that his Iraq war is lost.
2007-07-16 13:23:12 · answer #8 · answered by Pey 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Obviously, you have been reding to many Internet posts.
Forget Polls. To ask 1000 people a loaded question, and then say that's the way 300,000,000 Amerivans feel? Not.
You have to commit a crime to be Impeached, Bush hasn't. Get over it.
2007-07-16 13:18:09 · answer #9 · answered by Ken C 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because Americans are dumb as rock. They kinda sort of elected him first time and couldn't see through his lies but how in the world the same guy got elected twice. I seriously can't comprehend and then he got plenty of supports on yahoo answers too. It is not Bush's fault he got re elected it is our fault. As president Bush would put it "There's an old...saying in Tennessee...I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says Fool me once...(3 second pause)... Shame on...(4 second pause)...Shame on you....(6 second pause)...Fool me...Can't get fooled again." --George W. Bush to Nashville, Tennessee audience, Sept. 17, 2002, MS NBC-TV
No matter what you senate cannot get 2/3 of the vote to impeach him.
2007-07-16 14:51:53 · answer #10 · answered by thebestbotintexas 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋