There has been much emailing recently(in liberal blogs and mass emails) about impeaching President Bush. Now while I agree with the concept of impeaching a president who ignores the balance of power and the constitution I feel that to impeach the President for reasons like that I think that we are treading down a slippery slope.
In the past the worthy impeachment(Nixon) revolved around not only ignoring the power of Congress and the Courts but also serious lapse in ethical conduct on the part of Richard Nixon( the whole obstruction of Justice episode in the early days of the Watergate break in)
President Bush while he has certainly weaken the Constitution has done so only because the Republican controlled congress has allowed him to do so because they were so intent on creating a permanent GOP majority they were willing to allow Bush to use his bully pulpit to preach fear of Democrats and the rule of law. If anything certain congressmen should be impeached.
No Bush is a poor president as I stated in my previous post he will probably go down as one of the worst but in no way has any thing he done(that we know of ) been truly worthy of impeachment. The Democrats should leave the political(unjustified) impeachments to the GOP
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