Hagel: "Before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment."

[ProSense]

Found at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/6/8373/62785">Daily Kos:

"The president says, 'I don't care.' He's not accountable anymore," Hagel says, measuring his words by the syllable and his syllables almost by the letter. "He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends how this goes."

The conversation beaches itself for a moment on that word -- impeachment -- spoken by a conservative Republican from a safe Senate seat in a reddish state. It's barely even whispered among the serious set in Washington, and it rings like a gong in the middle of the sentence, even though it flowed quite naturally out of the conversation he was having about how everybody had abandoned their responsibility to the country, and now there was a war going bad because of it.

"Congress abdicated its oversight responsibility," he says. "The press abdicated its responsibility, and the American people abdicated their responsibilities. Terror was on the minds of everyone, and nobody questioned anything, quite frankly."

He is developing, almost on the fly and without perceptible calculation, a vocabulary and a syntax through which to express the catastrophe of what followed after. Rough, and the furthest thing from glib, he's developing a voice that seems to be coming from somewhere else, distant and immediate all at once.

Listen to him calling out his fellow senators in committee.

"If you wanted a safe job," Hagel said memorably, "go sell shoes."

more...

Emphasis added: Might? Leave it to Chuck to pretend the issue has never been raised.

Salt Lake City Mayor calls for Bush's impeachment (which got some coverage here)

Speaking of oversight and safe jobs:

Bush is ignoring Congress. Is Congress ignoring Americans on Iraq?

The Puzzling Persistence of Liberal Doubt About Congress's War Powers

[Phredicles]

1. A lot of us have been calling for it for ages,

And not just Concerned Citizens - Members of congress, state and local governments, etc., etc., have been raising this. I don't know where Hagel is getting this "might".

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t

[Hawkowl]

3. The First Rethuglican

Doesn't this make Hagel the first Rethuglican to call for impeachment? This is the leak in the dike before the flood. I'd say the odds are only about 30% that shrub finishes his term.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. As I posted elsewhere, if the Repubs get impeachment done we can kiss 08 goodbye

We will have well and truly earned the title, lable, perception, and fact of Wussy-assed Democrats.

[ProSense]

5. Kick! n/t

[unblock]

6. "the american people abdicated their responsibilities"??

well, as meat loaf said, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

[nicknameless]

7. Unfortunately, that Hagel quote (about selling shoes) is over a month old.

And after speaking so bravely, he caved and voted against his own resolution, as did John Warner.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/5/175611/9039

Original story, dated January 24th
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/24/hagel-chides-colleagues-on-iraq-vote-%E2%80%98if-you-wanted-a-safe-job-go-sell-shoes%E2%80%99

YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZCeUhLkGto

It's long past time that Congress focused on BLACKMAIL-GATE.
Blackmail is the force that has been driving this country off the cliff.

AND it's time for Amnesty -- for all the members of Congress and the press, etc. who are being relentlessly blackmailed.
Even the firings of the federal prosecutors seems to have at its core: blackmail.
"Don't speak up or the gloves will be coming off, and embarrassing personal information will be revealed."

Edit for clarification