Republican New Hampshire Legislator Wants Bush and Cheney Impeached and Prosecuted

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Republican New Hampshire Legislator Wants Bush and Cheney Impeached and Prosecuted
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2008-02-21 13:03. Impeachment

By Dan DeWalt


In a packed hearing room on Feb 19th, under a carved wooden sign reading "Live Free or Die", the New Hampshire House committee of State-Federal Relations and Veterans' Affairs heard testimony on Representative Betty Hall's HR 24, which calls on the U.S. Congress to begin impeachment hearings for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

What was most notable about the four straight hours of testimony was not that opponents of the resolution could only muster two people willing to testify against it, both Republican stalwarts using selected excerpts from Jefferson's parliamentary manual or from the bill itself, whose arguments were embarrassingly empty.

It was not that Kris Roberts, the committee chair, had taken this hearing seriously enough to have researched the law, history and nuances of the subject, and that he used this to inform the proceedings in a reasonably fair manner.

It was not the fact that after the hearing ended, several pro-impeachment witnesses were approached by committee members and thanked for their clarity and useful testimony.

It was not even the novelty of the interjections by one committee member that would periodically steer the conversation abruptly into Rockefeller/Trilateral Commission territory.

The most remarkable moment came late in the afternoon when Republican House member Steve Vaillancourt strode into the room to testify. After passing out copies of the second chapter of Patrick Buchanan's "Day of Reckoning" as supporting evidence, Vaillancourt opened his remarks quoting "fools rush in where wise men fear to tread", and it sounded like a set up to condemn a rush to impeach. But instead he said that Betty Hall is neither fool nor wise man, but is a model of courage and that her impeachment resolution should be supported.

And then the fun began.

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[Me.]

1. Here's A Stunned Me Agreeing With Republicons

:spank:

And where are the dems in this matter? :nuke:

[LynnTheDem]

2. It's finally dawning on the Republics that a DEM will be the next Decider.

And suddenly NOW they want bush & cheney impeached.

Coz finally they've realized George W. bUsh stole all those powers for the OFFICE of president, not for himself alone.