How do you impeach a president (or administration)?

[Gut Check]

What criteria is required and what is the process?

[bullimiami]

1. we dont need impeachment

we need to deny the result, get the information to the forefront and let it take its course.

[bowens43]

2. the process starts in the house

it's not going to happen...........

[billyoc]

3. 2 easy steps!

1. A republican congress indicts * for high crimes or misdemeanors.

2. A republican senate tries and convicts him of same.

Should be a snap! :cry:

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. So how do you go around the congress?

Is there a country outside the U.S. that would be willing to post the information that would shame the congress to proceed with impeachment proceedings? The Guardian, perhaps?

[Jackie97]

10. Consider this....

The mostly Republican Congress didn't kick Clinton out years ago.

Of course, it would have made America very unstable to do that. They would possibly consider the same "problems" in the case of Bush.

[ComerPerro]

12. That's not why they didn't kick Clinton out

Its not as though they held back for fear of making the country unstable. They didn't kick him out because they couldn't. They didn't have any compelling reason. They knew that the charges against him were just trumped up bullshit by a bunch of overzealous extremists. And, the Ameircan public was against them.

There are plenty of reasons why Bush and his administration should be put in prison for a very long time. And, it wouldn't really make the country unstable to do so. We would have had a transition in leadership anyway, had Kerry won.

They won't imeach Bush. Period. They are all a bunch of pathetic partisan hacks.

[freedom_to_read]

4. Legal criteria is unclear, but political criteria is out of our grasp

Accd. to the Constitution a President can be impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors." There is, understandably, little case law to flesh out what that means.

But politically, impeachment is a process that begins in the House and ends in the Senate. In other words, there's no f'ing way Bush will ever get impeached, unless things get so bad in the next 2 years that we take back the House and the Senate, with large majorities by 2006.

In other words, ain't gonna happen. Sorry. :(

[aden_nak]

5. You need a Supermajority in the House to start it.

We need a huge turnout in 2006 in order to even attempt it. That needs to be our next goal, I think. If we find the mid-term elections the way we funded the 2004 Presidential election, we can probably get damn close to the needed votes, and then pick up a few moderate Republicans who are disenfranchised with the NeoCons.

Then, of course, our Democrats would have to grow a set of balls and put it to a vote.

[benburch]

6. We can't do it unles we can get lots of hardcore GOP reps onboard.

Therefore, it cannot happen, and will never happen.

[Gut Check]

7. Hmmm..... Back to the drawing board. n/t

:argh:

[BUSHOUT]

9. Do your own reasearch you lazy bum!

:)

[Zep]

11. How to impeach?

Step 1 -- Indict for a crime in the House of Representatives.

Step 2 -- Convict in the Senate.

In short, forget about this tactic for now.

But maybe two years from now, who knows?

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