Impeachable probabilities

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=15&art_id=9027&sid=6101468&con_type=1

...The NSA's domestic surveillance program is not the only impeachable offense with which the president could plausibly be charged.

The House Judiciary Committee's Democratic staff recently released a report concluding that Bush "misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war with Iraq." And the 273-page minority report goes on to conclude that "there is a prima facia case" that "the President, Vice President and members of the Bush administration violated a number of federal laws, including 1) Committing a Fraud against the United States; 2) Making False Statements to Congress; 3) The War Powers Resolution, 4) Misuse of Government Funds; 5) federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment; 6) federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other individuals, and 7) federal laws concerning leakings and other misuses of intelligence."

It's true that as long as Republicans are in control, members of Congress are no more likely to impeach Bush than they are to vote themselves a pay cut.

But I'm predicting that this impeachment talk won't go away in the new year. The coming weeks will likely bring more bad news for the Republican Party, and if the Democrats take control of Congress in 2006 - a prospect that is becoming less implausible - Bush could find himself in deeper doo doo than his daddy ever dreamed of.

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Rosa Brooks, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, is a former senior adviser at the US State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

with getting control of Congress. Until then, talk is just talk. But what we talk about, and how we talk about it is the key to getting control of Congress. That's why I think, that while the goal should not change, the talk should be muted for a while. It's called tactics.

But I'm willing to bet that it won't be.

From fooling people into changing precincts by signing fake 'petitions' to registering voters then ripping up dthose of democrats to voting machine fraud to voter intimidation at the polls. Expect it all.

that's a different issue. No use making it easy for the GOP by keeping the true vote close, is there?

For moderates, and the right, it is divisive. We need the moderates.

However, this is just my opinion of how it will play out tactically. Sometimes things are just the right thing to do. Even if you have to pay a price.