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Senator Leahy gets an earful about impeachment at home
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2007-06-10 22:09. Impeachment

By John Lippmann

Last night I was in Barre Vermont at a benefit concert for a great organization called L.A.C.E. www.lacevt.org Anyway, Sen. Leahy was there and when he gave his opening remarks several shouts of impeach bush could be heard. Senator Leahy's only response was that Washington was about to get a lot more interesting...which could mean just about anything...but I think he was talking about the 08 elections. Later in the evening the featured guest of the benefit, Jackson Browne, sang a song called drums of war about the lies and missed opportunities for peace before Iraq which included the line "why is impeachment off the table?" this was met with loud and sustained applause from the audience of which Leahy was a member. Browne also said he had spent the afternoon previous to the benefit talking politics with Leahy and knowing of Browne's political stance, I am sure impeachment came up. Also, people had pretty much free access to Leahy throughout the event. Everyone and particularly Dan and your Vermont friends, this might be a good week to try and reach Sen. Leahy on his impeachment stance and future actions. It seems as if he gets the kind of free pass and general adoration that Kennedy gets in our state but he has just spent a weekend hearing from pro-impeachment VTers and at least one national figure and the pressure is on.