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[topaz]

This is at least partly related to spending the evening watching a Michael Moore movie, but I am so fucking angry about the Scooter Libby business I can't see straight.  Holy hell am I mad.  I could just about eat a battleship and shit staples.

I think one of the things that's most infuriating is that we have such a gutless, spineless, Democratic leadership in Congress, it's practically guaranteed that nothing is going to happen.  Pelosi's chair was barely warm before she announced that impeachment was off the table.  (The Huffington Post is urging you to make her put it back on the table.  That number is 202-225-0100, folks.  And MoveOn has one of their endless petitions in play to support impeachment, if you like signing MoveOn petitions.)

Our House rep, Marty Meehan, is vacating his seat this fall and it's up for grabs.  The first candidate who says they support impeaching this motherfucker will get my vote.  For that matter, they may well get me to quit my job and go to work on their campaign.

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[ceo]

The problem with impeaching Bush is that you really have to impeach Cheney first, because President Cheney is the only thing that would be worse than President Bush. And Pelosi would have a rather glaring and obvious conflict of interest in pushing the impeachment of both the President and VP. (To say nothing of the fact that it amounts to a coup d'etat by the legislative branch, and there's now way the Republicans in the Senate are going to go along with it until and unless Bush and Cheney perform a "partial-birth" abortion live on national TV and eat the fetus.)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

And Pelosi would have a rather glaring and obvious conflict of interest in pushing the impeachment of both the President and VP.

This is ridiculous. Who else should be pushing for it, then? Mr. Rogers?

A coup d'etat by the legislative branch... which is IN THE CONSTITUTION.