Hagel (R, NE): Bush impeachment an option

[man4allcats]

March 25, 2007

WASHINGTON - With his go-it-alone approach on Iraq, President Bush is flouting Congress and the public, so angering lawmakers that some consider impeachment an option over his war policy, a senator from Bush’s own party said Sunday.

GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of the war, stopped short of calling for Bush’s impeachment. But he made clear that some lawmakers viewed that as an option should Bush choose to push ahead despite public sentiment against the war.

“Any president who says, I don’t care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don’t care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a president really believes that, then there are — what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that,” said Hagel, who is considering a 2008 presidential run.

In the April edition of Esquire magazine, Hagel described Bush as someone who doesn’t believe he’s accountable to anyone. “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 on how this goes,” Hagel told the magazine.

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[Catch22Dem]

1. Interesting, but not totally unexpected coming from Hagel

He's not a rabid right-winger. He may be a republican (not as republican as Lieberman) but I do believe he has shreds of common sense, decency, and humility. I'm not ignoring his political ambitions, but he has been a critic for a while. He was a critic even before the political winds were blowing in that direction. Hagel and Chaffee are far more progressive than a fairly sizable handful of DINOs I could mention.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Disagree--he IS a rabid right-winger (one of the most conservative voting

records in the Senate), but he is a sane "old-school" conservative and really seems disgusted by Chimpy and what his admin has done to this country and our military. And for that I am proud of him.

[AshevilleGuy]

3. He is setting the Dems up -

There is not one chance that he would vote to convict bush or cheney if they actually were being impeached. He voted with bush two weeks ago on the Iraq bill.

But the pukes know that it would not only be embarassing for us to try to impeach and FAIL; it would be taken as affrirmation by the WH that they are right! You can't trust Hagel, even if he does appear to be human...