Vermont Town Backs Bush Impeachment

[SeekingDemocracy]

By DAVID GRAM

NEWFANE, Vt. (AP) - In a white-clapboard town hall, circa 1832, voters gathered Tuesday to conduct their community's business and to call for the impeachment of President Bush.

"In the U.S. presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our nation," said select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article that was placed on the warning - or official agenda - for the annual town meeting, a proud Yankee tradition in New England.

"It absolutely affects us locally," Dewalt said. "It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, who are dying" in the war in Iraq.

The article, approved 121-29 in balloting by paper, calls on Vermont's lone member of the House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against the president, alleging that Bush misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying.

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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060307/D8G6USS80.html

[MasonJar]

1. Good for Vermont; I hope Bernie does his part.

[SeekingDemocracy]

2. Me too.

Unfortunately, the article goes on to quote Bernie as saying it is unrealistic to impeach because the Republicans control the House and Senate.

I think this is an excuse. If more local avenues were empowered to speak as they have in this Vermont town perhaps it wouldn't matter who is in control.

[cali]

3. Freepers are going to town on this. It's

so amusing. They're trying to make out that Newfane is some backwoods town full of poor ignorant people. Little do they know that Newfane is full of beautiful homes and expensive Inns.

[Cha]

4. I'll kick for this small quaint

Vermont town..how prescient is that..voting for impeachment of the Imbecile?

I've heard Vermont has lost a lot of soldiers to this misbegotten war on Iraq.