President Bush and Vice President Cheney have broken many laws, lied to Congress and the people and many other things that should at least be investigated. It is mandated in the Constitution that they do so, yet they refuse and turn a blind eye to continuous abuses of power and lawlessness. Without action, a precedent will be set that such behavior in the White House is acceptable. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Constitution was designed to protect us from that, yet the pres. calls it a gd piece of paper and his attorney general calls it "quaint". So, can the people sue Congress to take action that most of the people want?
2007-12-06 14:24:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
BTW: I vote, encourage others to do so and volunteer for a fifteen to eighteen hour day at the polling place each election. So, please don't tell me to get involved.
2007-12-06 14:38:09 · update #1
Good question. While Hillary,, Obama and everybody else is running all over thecountry campaigning, whoi is doing their jobs in Washington???? NO ONE!!!!!!!!!
What happens if you and I go to our bosses and ask for 6 months off to look for a better job??? LOL!!!! remember that come election day.
2007-12-06 16:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by Barry auh2o 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. These are co-equal branches of government. The Congress is not one person but several hundred. They serve at the pleasure of their constituents. Congress has the power to impeach any member of any of the three branches of government (since they represent the people) and if convicted they may also vote to remove them from office or not. However, they cannot send them to jail.
Once removed from office, the Justice Department may bring criminal charges against that person. If convicted there, they can be sentenced to jail.
The Supreme Court has the power to overturn the lower court's conviction and the President can pardon anyone he wishes.
The system is designed to prevent any one branch from dominating any other. It is a good system.
There are all kinds of wild claims of illegality but believe me that is only being done for political advantage. If there was any, I repeat, ANY merit to the charges there would have been at least a serious attempt to impeach.
There is no law against lying. It may be reprehensible, it may anger you but if you do not like a politician's performance you vote against them or at least not vote for them. Right now you are upset with what the current administration has said and done. When Bill Clinton was president, the Republicans reacted the same way.
But this is the greatest democratically elected, representative republic on earth. We have a long an proud history of elections and bloodless transfers of power. At some point, all political positions must take a back seat to what is best for America. It is unpatriotic to call for armed insurrection, it is not healthy to put ones party above the process and it is not wise to fail to understand that your own party will say a whole bunch of stuff that is only partially true, true but out of context or outright lies. Don't make the mistake of putting rhetoric in the same category as reality
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2007-12-06 15:02:12 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The power belongs to the people. The next time your congressperson is up for re-election, vote against them.
Be glad we do not live in a pure democracy otherwise mob rule would be the rule. Furthermore I dont' believe, nor have I seen polling evidence to prove your statement ..."most of the people want." referring to the impeachment of the President. There is a reason we have checks and balances. The President, Congress and the Supreme Court all have their specific roles to play and from what I've seen over the last 20 years they've played them. There are no grounds for impeachment... If Bush lied to the American people so did most everyone else in Congress including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, John Murtha, Harry Reid and many, many others who were privy to the same classified information as President Bush. If anything was proven by this it was the fact that our intelligence services were woefully lacking in terms of HUMINT and the ability to gather meaningful intelligence with some level of confidence about its validity. I am still not satisfied with the conditions or level of confidence in our intelligence services, even the ability of the NSA to intercept and interpret intellegence and the CIA to gather meaningful intelligence on the ground.
2007-12-06 14:33:09 · answer #3 · answered by Jay D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the Constitution. There are term limits, impeachable offenses, etc. that are there to curtail serious problems. The Supreme Court is not a sheriff's department... their job is only to interpret the law.
But, there really isn't anything that you can impeach the president, vice-president, and congress on. If you don't agree with them, speak your mind at the next election.
2007-12-06 14:32:23 · answer #4 · answered by Molly Pitcher 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's called impeachment, and the only reason the president has so much power is because of the congressmen who have been blatantly disregarding their responsibilities by creating new bills to give the president more power then back stabbing him when something goes wroung with the good ol' congressional excuse "But it's not within my power".
As far as the people preforming it directly i'm not sure, but you can petition your state rep. to call charges upon the others, at least im pretty sure.
2007-12-06 14:32:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, they can't.
Congress goes before a court all the time. It's called an election.
2007-12-06 14:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
funny how everyone's up in arms about congress and the president...how bout instead of suing congress and impeaching the president, you people just get off your asses vote...otherwise, stop complaining about it...and please, elaborate on exactly what laws President Bush has broken...I'd like to hear this...
2007-12-06 14:30:56 · answer #7 · answered by eaglesphan32 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋