Boston Globe: Vermont Senators & Congressional Representative Reject Call for Impeachment

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Boston Globe: Vermont Senators & Congressional Representative Reject Call for Impeachment
Submitted by Chip on Mon, 2007-04-23 01:25. Impeachment

Jonathan Saltzman of the Boston Globe reports:

Declaring that the Bush administration's actions in foreign and domestic affairs raise "serious questions of constitutionality," Vermont state senators voted yesterday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in what officials say was the first such vote by state lawmakers in the country.

Without debate, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 16 to 9 in favor of the nonbinding resolution, which urges US Representative Peter Welch, a Democrat, to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings.

Vermont's congressional delegation, which includes Welch and Senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, promptly rejected the call.

They issued a statement saying that the three shared the anger of many Vermonters with the Bush administration, "one of the worst and most destructive in American history."

But, they said that, for the first time since Bush took office, Congress is investigating several of the administration's key actions, ranging from the decision to invade Iraq to the recent firings of eight US attorneys.

"Before we talk about impeachment, it is imperative that these investigations be allowed to run their course, and we should then follow wherever the facts lead," the delegation said.

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or he resigns all his papers will be sealed and we will never know the full extent. And more importantly neither will the idiots who voted for him.

They're absolutely right.

They're just now starting to find out how much this administration has gotten away with (or thought they had gotten away with), let them do their job.

If the rule of law were still recognized in this country both of these assholes would not only but out of office; they'd be in prison at which point I could finally exclaim, "Ah, justice at last!"

Impeach the Bastards!