TPMCafe: "Grassroots Impeachment Movement Rapidly Expands" (Good Overview)

[Hissyspit]

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Grassroots Impeachment Movement Rapidly Expands
By Ticia | bio

At this writing, President War Mouth's current approval rating is about 30%, but even the hard core conservative base is apparently quite "uneasy" about his capabilities and inclinations. Though there appears to be little initiative in the House to fire up impeachment proceedings, the grassroots movement is growing rapidly. Dr. John Moffett, active research neuroscientist in the D.C. area, starkly contrasts the current grassroots impeachment efforts with the former authoritarian push to impeach President Clinton in his article: "Top Down versus Bottom-Up Impeachment"

There is currently no talk of impeaching President Bush or Vice President Cheney in the U.S. House of Representatives, but there are measures moving through the state legislatures in at least three states, Washington, Vermont and New Mexico. Hopefully more states will take up similar legislation.

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President Clinton's impeachment was initiated at the top levels of the Republican elite hierarchy, and pushed through the House by rich, white, ultra-conservatives without significant public support. By the time those proceedings were done, President Clinton had an approximately 70% approval rating with the public.

After two months of collecting impeachment perspectives, some convergence in the talking points seems apparent to me. Significant now are the various awakenings occurring within disparate social strata in cities and states throughout the country, as February, 2007, nears its end. The moral imperative toward the impeachment of corrupt American war leaders is an imperative which might not only arouse the public will, but also ignite a future president. Who knows? Remember "What Would Lincoln Do?" Such phenomena are not entirely without historical precedent.

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[Botany]

1. The media is trying to ignore it and many in D.C. are in denial but ...

.... there is a storm a brewing.

Bush lied us into an unneeded war, has broken God knows how many laws,
let bin Laden get away, and looted the U.S. treasury for his rich friends, we need
a tidal wave to wash clean America.

[mod mom]

4. Yep, there are some dark clouds overhead.

Lets hope this rapid swell leads to impeachment before a crazed decisions occurs.

Pisses me off, he was never elected and we have to put up w this shit. And they will haunt us long after he is gone, because allowing him to steal his way to power allowed two lifetime appointments to the SCOTUS.

[Botany]

5. Egg zack LEE

Every time I hear or see something about how bush won re-election my
blood boils .... as does many in Ohio. Florida 2000 was just as dirty.

We need to be calling both senators and Reps as soon as Jay Rockefeller
releases the pre war intel.

[Atman]

2. Constitutionally, if any state calls for impeachment Congress MUST take it up.

Constitutional scholars, am I wrong on this? I thought this was the law of the land (not that we use them much anymore).

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[The_Warmth]

3. Now THAT is beautiful.

I hope you're right.