Thread: Democrats Want Congress to Begin Impeachment

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Democrats want congress to begin impeachment

Published: Sunday, April 9, 2006
By David Gram
The Associated Press

RANDOLPH -- The Democratic State Committee on Saturday voted to urge Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush, but decided against asking the Legislature to join that call.

Margaret Lucenti, a committee member from Montpelier, said the president had misled the country into war, conducted illegal electronic spying on Americans and violated international torture treaties.

"I would hope that any one of these infractions would bring the administration down. ... We need to restore accountability in our federal government," she said.

Adoption of the resolution calling for impeachment proceedings makes Vermont's the fifth state Democratic party committee to take such action, following New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin, party officials said.

The roughly 45 Democrats who attended the meeting decided against a portion of a resolution adopted by the Rutland County Democratic Committee that would have had the Legislature use an obscure provision in U.S. House rules to transmit a message calling for Bush's impeachment to Congress.

Michael Inners of Grand Isle said the rule cited by the Rutland committee actually was not part of the original "Jefferson's Manual" that is incorporated into U.S. House rules. He said the language cited by the Rutland committee was part of a parliamentarian's notes interpreting the rules.

While the question of the Legislature's involvement divided those at the meeting, there appeared to be no disagreement that the president's conduct warranted impeachment. Formal deliberations and voting were open only to the 49 members of the state committee, but an hour-long public comment period at the beginning of the meeting drew some of the most impassioned remarks.

"This president we have is the only president in the history of the United States to have actually admitted while in office committing an impeachable offense," said Randy Bright of Montpelier.

Bright said the stakes were huge. "Do we continue as a representative democracy?" he asked. "Do we continue with three pillars, with checks and balances" between the branches of government?

Saturday's special meeting was called by the state committee after Democratic committees in at least eight counties passed a form of the Rutland resolution calling for the Legislature to get involved in the impeachment effort.

Rep. John Tracy of Burlington urged fellow Democrats to skip the stop at the Legislature and go straight to Congress.

"You should send the message directly to the people who have to act on it ... cut out the middleman," he said.

The vote on the resolution calling for Bush's ouster followed rejection of an amendment that would have said Vice President Dick Cheney also warranted impeachment. While there appeared to be strong disapproval of his performance in office, several speakers noted that the resolution before the group cited several "high crimes and misdemeanors" allegedly committed by Bush for which there was insufficient evidence to implicate the vice president.

Rejection of the amendment adding Cheney came after Billie Gosh, a Vermont member of the Democratic National Committee, urged the group to limit the resolution to Bush.

"Let's keep it crisp. Let's keep it clear. Let's focus on the target," she said.

Ok lets say they do then what? What will they do to the country. Will they let Americans work again? Will they stop making up all kinds of laws that Americans must follow while others don't? Will they put an end to this maddness? No. Because Hillary Clinton was speaking to the mass of Illegals today. We will all be hungry if we don't vote for people like Frist.. He should run for President He will win hands down. The main issue today is Illegal Immigration and it must be dealt with and only with force can it be done. They are calling for a civil war. They are serious about not leaving another mans' country. They infringe on the rights of others and it's not right. Our citizens should be allowed to work after they have finished their time in prision. They should work on construction. Our prisioners should work in agricultrue. They will think twice abot comittiing crimes when we put them to work. We have citizens but we choose not to use them.

But Frist has fallen prey to the vultures. He was weak and could not stand up to them. How can he face a real enemy to America if he can't even stand up to the Democrats and George Bush ?

I've got a better idea . . . why don't the CITIZENS and the STATES pass a resolution to impeach the President, the Vice-President, the defense secretary and members of Congress that have united with foreigners -- I don't care what their political party is. Like I heard a man say on tv the other day, left wing or right wing, they're still off the same bird -- they're all vultures preying on the American people

Yes, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, McCain, Kennedy, Clinton and several other senators have committed treason against this country by calling for amnesty for invaders. All have violated their oath of office and all should go.

If, however, we can get rid of Bush perhaps we'll have a scare put into all of them.

I wonder why they're not using the strongest of their charges? Dereliction of duty...spying on the American people..taking us to war under false pretenses??

MJ

WHOP I feel like I stepped on a rake. They can't use the dereliction of duty thing because they are ALL guilty. ALL GUILTY.

MJ