Reply #5: Wonderfully concise summation of the impeachment scenario. [View All]

[puebloknot]

I hope that this will put an end to all the "impeachment without investigtions" nonsense.

You've covered all the angles except one (although you may consider it inherent in what you wrote). I refer to the matter of a state invoking the Jefferson protocol to compel the House to proceed with impeachment proceedings post haste.

Here is a link to an article about that at OpEdNews.com. DUer Kadie just posted something about this today, but I think it bears repetition. Being uncertain of whether such an act on the part of a state legislature could simply be brushed aside by Pelosi, et al., I wrote to Stuart Hutchison who is spearheading this effort in New Jersey. His reponse to my letter is below his article at this link:

http://www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_stuart_h_061229_new_jersey_impeach_t .htm

He says that if a state demands impeachment under Jefferson's protocol, the House is forced to put other things aside to proceed with impeachment -- no two ways about it. If you have conflicting information, I would like to hear it.

This seems like a very good way to get the ball rolling, if one or more state legislature will actually do it. I suppose there is still the concern of using the "I" word too soon, but I agree with the premise of your article that we need to get things moving, with seriousness, now! I have been saying all along that if we let them get away with just holding hearings, allegedly to find impeachable offenses that they say they don't have now, it will turn into just an exercise to run out the clock, with an eye firmly focused on the 2008 election.

I want my country and my life back now. I don't want the next two years to simply be sacrificed to a desperate attempt to stay in power by playing small and nice. I think that is exactly a formula that will lead to defeat for the Dems.

Great and timely article! Thanks for the work you put into it.