Impeachment is mandatory

[solarbird]

Impeach

President

Bush

Unclaimed Territory should be read here, particularly with regards to commentary in The Federalist nr. 47. Specifically:

By proclaiming the power to ignore Congressional law and to do whatever it wants in the area of national security, it is seizing the powers of the legislative branch. But by blocking courts from ruling on the multiple claims of illegality which have been made against it, the administration is essentially seizing the judicial power as well. It becomes the creator, the executor, and the interpreter of the law. And with that, the powers of all three branches become consolidated in The President, the single greatest nightmare of the founders.

Comments

[solarbird]

You know, everyone tells me that the separation of church vs state exists, even though it is -not- in the constitution anywhere.
Fair enough; I was taking a cheap shot, and I retract it.

In 92 they passed a law that pretty much allows the whole phone records thing, no one thought it was a bad thing then, why now?
Oh, I was lobbying against all sorts of expansionist crap in the 1990s. Don't try to put me in that box, it won't work.

Clinton engaged in blatent domestic spying against political enemies and got caught numerous times. Justice stifled all investigations and everyone said it was fine.
No we didn't.

What it all comes down to, he won't be impeached
Oh, I'm sure he won't. I actually think it would be good for the Republican party for them to do it, but I don't think it'll happen.

he hasn't done anything to rise to the level of impeachment and if they try to impeach him the 06 elections will see the congress go 90 percent Republican.
Um, if "they" try to impeach him, it'll be the Republicans doing it. Remember, it's been a Republican-controlled Congress since 1994.

[banner.livejournal.com]

BTW, I apologize for getting a bit snarky myself. And yes I know I shouldn't have tried to put you in that box but I was trying to make the point that many of the people who are screaming loudest now were fully incompliance when this was happening under Clinton.

This is why whenever anyone wants to push any kind of law that curtails freedom or expands government I always try to point out that one day they're not going to be in power, the other side will, and how will they like it then? As we can see currently, they're not liking it at all but I want to rub their noses in the fact that they were fine with it when -their- side did it.

As for the Congress, well the Republicans have the majority, (same in the Senate) but the Democrats still control it more than the Republicans do (again, same in the senate) and that's because the Republicans 1) refuse to act like the WON the election 2) have no balls and 3) got away from their conservative base (which is what got them the Congress in the first place!). If they'd go back to cutting taxes, cutting spending, and reducing government things would be great. This is why they might lose it in 06, and why Hillary is almost guarenteed to get elected President: The Republicans are ignoring their base and acting like Democrats. If they don't start getting tough on illegal immigration, I'm voting straight Libertarian.

And if McCain runs I'M VOTING FOR HILLARY. And you can take that to the bank.

[avram]

Wait, banner, do you think things like the NSA collecting details on Americans is right or not? If you don’t like it, then you should be welcoming those of us who were blinded to this fact by our approval of Clinton.

If, on the other hand, you don’t think it’s a problem, then you shouldn’t have thought it was a problem when Clinton signed the law in the first place.