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.

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[solarbird]

The thing that mandates impeachment at this point is using the NSA to shut down the Justice Department's investigation into the matters of spying. That, and the use of "signing statements" to unilaterally rewrite and disregard law. But at least until now there were options to investigate, and possibly take to court. That option is now being removed. Impeachment is the only reasonable result to this usurpation of legislative and now judicial power in the hands of the executive.

[banner.livejournal.com]

You know, it's funny, but when the last president did this, no one said boo. Now suddenly the shoe is on the other foot and everyone is all upset. It's a bit too late to go complaining now. If you're not going to complain when your side is doing it, don't be all indignent when the other side does it.

Just wait till Hillary gets elected, then the fur is really going to fly.

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

So since someone else got away with whatever you think he got away with, Bush should too?

That dog sure as hell doesn't hunt.

That's WEAK.

[solarbird]

when the last president did this, no one said boo
Presumably you missed the impeachment proceedings. Also, please don't make presumptions about what I was and was not saying. Admittedly, the specific charges they brought him up on were, well, largely stupid and pointless, which was particularly irritating when, in fact, there was a reasonable charge: abuse of power. I supported impeachment on those grounds, though I did not think it was as mandatory as it is in this case.

[banner.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think the Republicans screwed that whole thing up as well, but the problem was, most Americans didn't care. And with this who thing? Most American's don't care. To be honest if there wasn't a war on I'd be pretty upset about the pattern searching bit, even though it is legal from everything I've seen. The bit about monitoring phone calls between Americans and outside agencies however has been going on since this country started. Like it or not (and I don't), I don't think that practice will ever change and I don't think it's illegal. As for the FISA court, I think it probably should be abolished because it has become to politicized and become rather partisan.