from the about-fucking-time department:

[topaz]

New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping

(now what about Congress...?)

thanks agaran for the pointer.

Comments

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

The phrasing of this is important.

I think you'd get different results if you asked "Should Congress impeach President Bush because he wiretapped American citizens without a warrant?"

(For what it's worth, I think he should be impeached and removed from office over this issue, but I don't delude myself in thinking that a mostly Republcian Congress, or a public that doesn't really have a good grasp on the whole story, would agree with me.)

[harimad.livejournal.com]

Do you think most Americans realize that impeachment is the trial and not a guilty verdict?

[sine.livejournal.com]

probably not. which is sad. i don't even know if they realize that one chamber does the impeaching (bringing of charges) and the other does the trying and possibly convicting.

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Most people probably do not realize the distinction.

To clarify, I support impeachment and removal from office.