News and Politics | July 26, 2008 | 28 comments

Is it or isn't it impeachment the judiciary committee hears arguments

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A congressional committee has heard testimony about the case for impeachment of President Bush. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, while majority Democrats have ruled out formal impeachment efforts, they approved the public hearing to examine limitations on presidential powers and arguments about what constitute impeachable offenses.

Critics say President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be impeached because of a range of alleged legal and constitutional abuses.

The list includes administration justifications to Congress and Americans for the war in Iraq, authorization of secret electronic surveillance, approval of harsh interrogation techniques, and defiance of congressional subpoenas.
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28 comments // Is it or isn't it impeachment the judiciary committee hears arguments

  • Cherish_Liberty4_All
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      Cherish_Liberty4_All  

    • CaptSutter...I owe you an apology...my comments were meant for the appropriately named BooBoo! and to quote him:
      "refer to my last response...
      bunch of rubber lip...whinning titty babies!
      McCain 08
      The next President of the World!" quote from BooBoo

      You are making McCain sound like Hitler! How old are you? Talk about a whinning baby! President of the world? OMG....THE USA is just ONE country on this planet and guess what, IT BELONGS TO ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, LIKE IT OR NOT!!!

      Like Barack Obama, I am a proud citizen of the USA and a citizen of the World!!! Go Obama...hope for the CORRECT change in America!!!

      Live Green! Drive Less...Solar! Wind! Recycle!!!

      to FB_Nukes....I LOVE The Colbert Report, John Stewart and Louis Black, just to name a few....don't judge people by their quickly filled in current.com tv profiles and then send insults to them...it only makes you look ignorant! So please do not email me anymore or you will go to the cuttent tv purgatory called "ignore".

    • 3 years ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  

    • It's no wonder that Congress' ratings are at 9%. In the past 8 years the other side of the aisle (libs) have been more interested in "getting" Bush than doing their jobs. This is just retribution for Clinton.

      Since Pelosi we have had record oil and gas prices, a housing meltdown, foreclosures and arguably a recession, investigations on steroids in baseball and threatening to nationalize or tax companies making 8.5% net income. This congress is a joke. What happened to Social Security reform (tried by Bush in his first term but torpedoed by lies) just to name one issue?

      The Democrats would rather see this country in a depression or mass disaster if they can blame it on Republicans than to see a Bush, Republican or conservative prolicy succeed. Now we are looking at Comrade Obama as a good possibliity for the next four years. Disaster.

      Impeach them all on the Hill. Impose term limits. Ron Paul for president.

    • 3 years ago
  • fauxsherrrr
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      fauxsherrrr  

    • "The list includes administration justifications to Congress and Americans for the war in Iraq, authorization of secret electronic surveillance, approval of harsh interrogation techniques, and defiance of congressional subpoenas. "

      The democrats helped pass FISA, do you think they'll be angry with Bush for violating the 4th amendment when they were just as quick to do the same?

      America is fucked.

    • 3 years ago
  • PatrickEdwardMurray
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      PatrickEdwardMurray  

    • The best part was the last hour or two!
      Brings back memories of The Senate Watergate Hearings with Senator Sam Ervin!

      And...

      Who could forget Senator Ain't NO Way!) from Hawaii!

    • 3 years ago
  • Dexcess
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      Dexcess  

    • I'm so sick of all this people saying it's too late to do this. Even if he gets impeached in december, it will still show the world that we think he was a terrible leader and that most of us weren't in board with his policies in the first place. A symbolic slap in the face at least.

    • 3 years ago
  • badthing
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      badthing  

    • One day Dennis Kucinich will be sitting in the Oval Office where he belongs. He's the only one who's ever mentioned he's for non-violence and the most honest guy in politics.

    • 3 years ago
  • dBkA
  • booboo_36564
  • Cherish_Liberty4_All
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      Cherish_Liberty4_All  

    • I applaud you, thomzang! You are right on it! If you or I had shot one of our friends while under the influence or even while NOT under the influence we would still be in jail or out on bail but still fighting the case in court!

      Rube...I agree....where IS the Democracy in THIS COUNTRY?

      Our guys over there dying from being electrocuted in showers build and installed by....one guess...HALIBURTON!!! What the heck???

      I lost my twin sisters son in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 from friendly fire...FRIENDLY FIRE????? WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? IS THAT LIKE CHENEY SHOOTING HIS BUDDY???

      WAKE UP!!!!! We have a mission to accomplish...and that mission is bringing Bush & Cheney up on charges and making them answer to the people...cause the people have the power!!!!

      or at least we used too....

      WAKE UP!

    • 3 years ago
  • rube
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      rube  

    • Bottom line if the nation were able to vote on this issue-
      slamb dunk those SOBs would be going to jail!

      Democracy my ass!

      The litany of their crimes would take days to access!

    • 3 years ago
  • thomzang
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      thomzang  

    • EXCESSIVE "WAIST"??? That is what most overweight Americans carry arround their "waists".

      EXCESSIVE "WASTE" WAS THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF BILL CLINTON WHILE BUSH GOES UNPUNISHED FOR STARTING AN ILLEGAL WAR, BANKRUPTING THE COUNTRY, OUTSOURCING OF JOBS, TAX CUTS FOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, HIS LEAVE NO CHILD BEHIND WHICH WASN'T FUNDED AND SHOULD REALLY BE CALLED "LEAVE NO CHILD A DIME!"

      WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

      I thank God for this country but at this point I am so ashamed of the occupation of Iraq, the collateral damage...and the TRUE REASON for being in Iraq>>>>OIL>>>OIL>>>AND MORE OIL!

      IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY.....AND THEN TRY THEM FOR TREASON & WAR CRIMES!!!!

      I STILL HAVE THE PICTURE IN MY MIND OF THE MEXICAN ARMY GOING INTO NEW ORLEANS BECAUSE OUR NATIONAL GUARD WAS USED AS A BACKDOOR DRAFT, MAKING THEM UNAVAILABLE TO HELP WHERE THEY WERE MEANT TO....DISASTERS IN THIS COUNTRY.

      GET REAL AND LIVE GREEN OR WE ALL DIE...

      NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE ANYWAY......

      VOTE FOR OBAMA-THE HOPE FOR THE CORRECT CHANGE IN AMERICA AND
      GOD BLESS AMERICA AND HELP US TO HELP THE WORLD. GOD BLESS BARACK OBAMA, HE CARRIES THE RIGHT MESSAGE AND WILL HAVE MANY EXPERIENCED PEOPLE...LIKE AL GORE & HILARY CLINTON HELPING HIM!

      WAKE UP...WAKE UP....WAKE UP!!!!

      CAPTSUTTER...CHENEY SHOOTS HIS BUDDIES WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL...LETS IMPEACH HIM JUST FOR THAT!!!

      mCcAIN WANTS TO SHOOT ANYONE WHO ISN'T AMERICAN...HE WANTS TO INVADE IRAN...AND HE LOVES TO SING ABOUT IT...IF HE IS ELECTED I CAN SEE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TAKING TO THE STREETS IN FULL OUT CIVIL WAR!!!

      WAKE UP!!!!!!!!

      CAPT...WHAT YA GONNA DO WHEN THE OIL IS ALL GONE BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH OIL IN THE GROUND!!!! WAKE UP!!!

      BTW..."SHOOTING FROM THE HIP" MEANS SHOOTING WITHOUT AIMING...GET THE PICTURE???

      ON THE OTHER HAND...
      SPOKEN WORDS ARE VERY POWERFUL! :)

    • 3 years ago
  • rube
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      rube  
    • thomzang:

      thomzang-
      your right on the button TZ.

      You know I recently found out through an article that the main reason people like you and I were upset with congress is their lack of doing the right thing for our nation- impeaching those SOBs!
      Keep fighting the good fight!

    • 3 years ago
  • FB_Nukes
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      FB_Nukes  
    • thomzang:

      You get all and only the information you spout from democracy now. Which isnt even a great source of reliable information...Id say there out there with associations like :

      Daily KOS
      Huffington Report
      Moveon.org
      oh... And code Pink.

      Bunch of idiots. Its a pitty the brainless of this country are still able to vote =(

    • 3 years ago
  • queenofit
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      queenofit  

    • Wow! Thanks Vierotchka, I am house-sitting, and was able to watch c-span yesterday [on tv]. Otherwise, at my own home I don't ever watch tv. However, with this recent up-surge of interesting (debates) in congress, I was thinking; maybe I should pull the tv back out, at my home, and dust off the cable box, so I could watch c-span. Now thanks to this, I don't have to do that! wonderful!

      I can also review some the video. Great!

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  

    • That's exactly the reason for these hearings is to provide solid facts and provable evidence of the crimes commited.

      Not just partisan slander or the kind of bias that has run rampant in the last decades.

      Remember that the hearing that led up to Nixon's resignation started off the same way.

      It's not about any party, it's about restoring the system of checks and balances that has damaged the way the goverment was designed to function.

      Any future administration should not be allowed to have the unchecked authority to ignore the laws and regulations with impunity.

    • 3 years ago
  • booboo_36564
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      booboo_36564  

    • Because they have no evidence...No There,There!
      denny kashity and all the dummycrats should be recalled for excessive waist of the peoples time and money on frivalous bull sh!t
      dummycrats just dont get it!
      example #1: price of gas up 71% since dummycrats took over in '06
      example #2: price per barrel oil went down $12 since Pres.Bush lifted the ban on drilling!
      Drill here! Drill now! Pay less!
      www.americansolutions .com

      McCain 08
      Because he shoots from the hip not the lip!

    • 3 years ago
  • maxamust
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      maxamust  
    • booboo_36564:

      You know that oil will not last forever right?

      You should stop using the word "dummycrats"
      It marginalizes any argument(if you want to call what you do arguing) you try to make.

    • 3 years ago
  • torybart
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      torybart  
    • booboo_36564:

      I agree, your agruments are not substantial at all and your choice of wording makes you look like a 12 year old. Good for you though.

      Oh, and Bush lifting the drilling ban has done absolutely nothing and will do nothing for at least ten years, and by the way, gas prices have risen how much since Bush came into office?

    • 3 years ago
  • clayjj05
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      clayjj05 [removed]  
    • booboo_36564:

      tory you dont know anything about oil. My entire family has been in the oil for 100 years. WE could have a rig up and almost to full capacity in about 3 1/2 years in the gulf. The dems made up that number so they wouldnt have to vote on it. There liars plain and simple.

    • 3 years ago
  • VegaNerDiva
  • rube
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      rube  
    • booboo_36564:

      Hey BOOBOO,

      Your intelligence regarding this issue is marginal as most conservatives are.

      Any education past the high school level?

      If so you might have learn about what financial doctrines are healthy for a democracy?

      A strong democracy thrives with competition! Monopolies are a death sentence for a democracy!
      Hence our current situation with the economy!
      Monolpolies with energy and other industries are killing us!

      What party has advocated sustainable energy and progressive science for years? To no avail because of the other party’s partisan politics with the energy culture.

      What party advocates drilling for more oil, even though countless experts all agree we cant drill our way out of the current problem! Also what party advocates more centralized type of energies coal and nuclear? Energies that can and will be monopolized!

      Ill give you a tip BOO BOO – the answer to the second question, its the party that has two oilmen in the Whitehouse that is tied to the oil industry.

      And you know what, your one of their advocates that has no clue what so ever on how economics work.

      BOOBOO please give me your attention,
      you really think big oil wants to spend billions of dollars to drill and find more oil only to lower the price for people like us, your crazed!

      BooBoo your name is perfect! I need say no more.

    • 3 years ago
  • clayjj05
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      clayjj05 [removed]  
    • booboo_36564:

      I would say that most conservatives have more education than you give credit for. Conservatives create huge companies that flourish liberals destroy things like the school system the welfare system etc. Im sure 90% of the people who run the fortune 500 companies are conservatives, and not some hackie sack hemp sandal wearing queers.

    • 3 years ago
  • booboo_36564
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      booboo_36564  
    • booboo_36564:

      T.boone pickens, clayjj, and myself are the only ones that have a grasp on reality...the rest of you are pissing up a rope...All economist agree that the short term solution is to drill domestically...everything else is 10-20 years away.The price per barrel went down $12 since President Bush lifted the ban on drilling! And if nazi pelosi would let it come to a vote even the dummycrats will vote for it!now you know why they're called dummucrats!
      Check out the show on TRU-Tv...called "Black Gold" on wed. nights at 8pm est. Its about 3 drilling riggs competeing for oil in 55 days...the winner gets the contract!
      We need to do everything ...wind, solar,bio,nuclear and drill domestically...and we need it now nazi pelosi!
      dummycrats have no solutions... only one awnser to every problem, MORE TAXES...So quit your whinning!

      McCain 08
      Because he has the solutions!

    • 3 years ago
  • Dexcess
  • ahdam
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      ahdam  
    • booboo_36564:

      riiiiight.... price of gas since the "dummycrats" took over... like the senate can change the price of something that the president has been profiting off of since before his first election? how about the increase since we had a "repooplican" president? whats it, $2.50 a gallon? not that its specifically his fault, but anyone can use statistics for their own personal good... why not complain about things like the minimum wage not rising for over six years of bush's presidency. oh, wait, would that require a few extra cents out of our paychecks to make the quality of life for a large part of our citizens just trying to persue their happiness by starting at the bottom? hmmm

    • 3 years ago
  • turangafaye
  • dBkA
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      dBkA  
    • booboo_36564:

      I watched the hearing. There is compelling evidence (like the fact that EVERY DAY laws are being broken) that this "president" has committed treason. I guess they won't take on the two "elections" that he stole. There is solid evidence on many counts and they showed it in the hearing. It was clear that most Democrats feel that impeachment is called for. Now, Pelosi has held her House Democrats at bay to where it appears to be too late. She is as bad as Bush is (no....no...no, she is not as bad as Bush...she was either blackmailed by Rove, threatened...who knows) but, she was complicit and will go down in history as stopping the impeachment of a "president" (who knew NOTHING of government, law, or ethics) who did fantastic DAMAGE to this country and to the world. I am a Democrat and I find Nancy Pelosi guilty of stopping justice from reaching both president and vice-.

      Why must conservatives always call names?

    • 3 years ago
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