Remember When The GOP Wanted To Impeach Earl Warren?

Thinking About Impeachment / David Lindorff / counterpunch / 11/1/05

There is little doubt that even if the Bush administration doesn't go down in flames, it will go down in history as one of, if not the most incompetent, corrupt and dangerous presidencies in the history of the republic.

The question is, with crimes so colossal, why isn't there a public demand for his impeachment?

In fact, there is a powerful and growing popular sentiment for impeachment -- we just don't hear about it. The Zogby organization, the only polling outfit to have posed the question to date, found last June that 42 percent of Americans felt Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war (a much larger percentage believe he lied). That, of course, was before the mainstream media began finally reporting, as a result of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of Plamegate, on the disinformation campaign for war against Iraq directed by Vice President Dick Cheney and the White House Iraq Group. It was also before Bush himself was found to have been in on the cover-up of the outing of Valerie Plame by Cheney chief if staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove. It was also before the US death toll in Iraq topped 2000.

It's a safe bet that the percentage in favor of impeachment of this liar and joke of a president today would be a lot higher than Zogby found it to be in June -- a figure, incidentally, which is higher than it ever was during the entire impeachment saga of President Bill Clinton in 1998/9, when the issue was, not an illegal war but an adulterous blow job.

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11012005.html

A little pep talk for a Tuesday afternoon. You'll have to scroll down 1 article to get to this.

But a bill of impeachment was NEVER even tried.