True or False?

[MrCoffee]

A successful impeachment includes conviction by the Senate.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Yes,

but I'd change the wording to a successful case. Impeachment, as I understand it, is like an indictment in a criminal case. Conviction or non-conviction completes the process. To a prosecutor, conviction would be the successful completion.

[BOSSHOG]

2. False

One can be impeached without being convicted, ergo one can "successfully" be impeached.

[last1standing]

3. A suffusion of Yellow.

Or, if the poll had offered it, Other.

A successful impeachment is in the eye of the beholder. Are we talking technically successful, pragmatically successful, or ideologically successful? Each one could have a different answer.

[MrCoffee]

4. Technically successful...ideology be damned.

Impeachment for the sake of ideology is what the House Republican'ts did to Clinton.

[last1standing]

5. Technically, it's not even a matter for voting.

If impeachment is passed by the house, it's technically successful. That's just fact. The senate then has the responsibility to either remove the president from office or not, but that can only happen with a successful impeachment so their would be no question regarding success, just a series of events.

I'm honestly not trying to start a flame, but I'm a little confused as to the purpose of this poll now.

[MrCoffee]

11. The purpose of the poll...

It occurs to me that in my many discussions of impeachment, there are wildly differing expectations of the process. I probably could have phrased it better, but the point is to see how we define a successful impeachment.

[last1standing]

13. Ok, that makes sense now.

n/t

[MrCoffee]

14. i knew i'd get there someday!

[AtomicKitten]

6. thanks for the flashback

Seared on my brain is Henry Hyde skipping gleefully from the House to the Senate with the Articles of Impeachment. Ugh.

[MrCoffee]

7. here's some Clorox...wash your brain thoroughly

it's the only thing that'll get that out.


i'm really sorry.

[AtomicKitten]

10. no worries

[Jack Rabbit]

8. I won't be satisfied with half-measures

Bush and Cheney need to go. The sooner the better.

[BOSSHOG]

9. Yes, because the alternative

would be for bush to leave office in January 09, tell the new president its all in his lap now, have a nice day and fuck you very much. He is a total failure with not one day spent being held accountable for anything. Hell, if he got a blowjob from an intern in Times Square, "christians" would give him a pass, even after he lied about it.

[blm]

12. False - impeachment by House still stands even if Senate votes against REMOVAL.

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[WildEyedLiberal]

15. A suffusion of yellow, once again

Pretty! :loveya: