Back on the agenda

[bigmacbear]

A while back I wrote of our current Congress regarding the possibility of impeachment:

[W]ith what we know now, I think impeachment of Bush might be doable, but Cheney is slick enough that he'd probably squeak by -- and you have to get both of them. But an investigation -- which is definitely in the works regardless of whether impeachment is a possible outcome -- at the very least may dig up behavior so outrageous that the people as a whole (not just us in the radical center) will be screaming for impeachment, if not Bush's head on a pike.

It seems in the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, Mr. Bush has just achieved a tactical success while committing a strategic blunder of Iraqi proportions. The hue and cry for impeachment of George II and Darth Cheney is getting louder and louder. Let's make sure it happens.

ITMFA. Enough said.

Comments

[blackwingbear.livejournal.com]

I wish we would impeach them... then hold them accountable for war-crimes.

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

Of course, unless you get both of them, then whoever is left will just pardon the other.

The succession is President, Vice-President, Speaker of the House, yes?

[bigmacbear]

Yes. Then President pro tempore of the Senate (i.e. the ranking Senator after the VP is eliminated), and then the Cabinet heads of departments in the order in which they were created, so starting with Secretary of State (uh oh, that's Condi Rice) and finishing with Homeland Security.

[yclept.livejournal.com]

While I agree that this does add to Dubya's long list of ignorant and offensive actions, I think it adds no weight to the impeachment argument, presidential pardons (but, true, not specifically commutations) having been granted in the last six administrations, Democrat and Republican.

Plus it's all too easy for hard-core conservatives to point out that Clinton pardoned his own business buddy. There's no way Democratic senators could get enough votes for impeachment with that.