Would impeaching Bush create a Civil War in this country?

[redirish28]

Poll question: Would impeaching Bush create a Civil War in this country?

I was talking about this with my wife and with the country so divided into blues and reds and then the turning of purple states... Would an impeachment hearing create a Civil War?

[radio4progressives]

1. every day he's in office helps create a civil war in this country.

[Lefty48197]

2. You mean we're NOT in a Civil War right now?

Yeah, I guess you're right. It IS pretty uncivil.

[banana republican]

19. We are being far too civil. n/t

[AtomicKitten]

3. the GOoPers are so misinformed, they would take up arms

if Congress had the audacity (reads: balls) to impeach the idiot boy-king.

[Duer 157099]

4. One can only hope. Only this time we let them go without a fight. n/t

[Somawas]

5. At this point

why impeach him at all? If the Republican party set the bar high with Clinton, they have now reversed themselves and set it very low with Bush. Nothing could have been more partisan than impeaching Clinton unless it's not impeaching the Chimp. So I'm now thinking that Chimpy should serve out his term. And in the meantime, his and their arrogance should be such a total bad memory that the mention of Chimpy's name should be enough to defeat Republicans for a generation.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

14. Hmmm. Good political stratergy! I like it!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[babylonsister]

6. I think a feeling of relief would prevail from most everyone. nt

[Trillo]

7. What INSANITY.

FIRING people with impunity is the great American way.

[zbdent]

8. A civil war was averted 12/12/2000

When Sandra Day O'Conner placated the domestic terrorists and installed their god . . .

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. Are you kidding me? When push comes to shove the are...........

cowardly sheep. Nothing but bullies when they think they have the edge.

[ldf]

17. you're damn right.

we liberals don't want to take up arms against anyone.

but when we do, we damn well mean it.

those dickwads would fade faster than lord pissy pants' christianity, after he is out of office.

i say, "bring it on"!

edit for grammar

[annabanana]

10. There would be a huge worldwide sigh of relief

that could be heard to Saturn.

[left is right]

11. Yes, it will cause civil war, but

we will have one anyway.

[Vidar]

12. Good thing if it did. We have become the evil empire.

[Dhampir Kampf]

13. No, I can't see that it would. Maybe idealogically, but it's already that.

I can't see us going into an all out civil war.

Well, one question regarding this, would this 'civil war' that you speak of, be the type where the country is trying to break into two, and another side stops it, (As in the 1861-1865 one), or one part of the country fighting to take control and reign over the country?

I can see the latter, as a result, maybe, in a long distance worse-case scenario, but a complete division, like our civil war? I just don't see that as a result of an impeachment.

[Lexingtonian]

15. nope

The earliest such a thing could happen is about a year from now.

At the current rate of Republican breakdown, a year from now there won't be a united party left to fight us. Six months from now their moderate wing will be gone, killing their ability to rule. Another six months after that, maybe a little more, and we'll have a blowup between their classical Right and conservative wings.

Personally, I don't want to see Bush impeached and removed by a Democratic Congress. I want to see Reid and Pelosi cut a deal with him where in return for not getting kicked out of office he gives up his right to veto anything. (And he has to wear an electronic ankle bracelet, plus submit to a dozen whacks with a paddle to his bare bottom every Friday at five o'clock. By relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.)

[Joe Fields]

16. I am a firm believer in impeachment, if it is necessary.

It is important for us to know that our leaders can and should be held accountable for actions which are unconstitutional. It is a healthy thing.

Secondly, as the worlds only real superpower, it is important for all other countries to know that we are a true democracy, and hold no double-standards when it comes to practicing what we preach. It is for this reason, if we truly are world leaders, that I strongly promote impeaching Bush. To do anything less makes us a mockery in the rest of the world's eyes.

[ljm2002]

18. Other:

Namely: Who Cares?

Who cares what *might* happen, if it is the right thing to do?

Who cares if the brownshirts on the right *might* get their panties in a wad yet again?

Why, oh why do we agonize so much about whether or not we should take the elephant by the tusks and wrestle it to the ground? YES, we should! Our country is being looted -- oh hell, let's be blunt -- HAS BEEN LOOTED to within an inch of its life. We're hanging by a thread. It's rotting from within, and the life that remains is in mortal peril but it is not recognized by most yet.

Clinton's impeachment hearings did not create a civil war. If the son-of-a-bitch (**) in the White House deserves impeachment -- and he does -- then let's do it.

(**) I use the term in its most literal sense.