John Nichols: Vermont Votes to Impeach Bush/Cheney (The Nation)

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BLOG | Posted 03/07/2007 @ 07:36am
Vermont Votes to Impeach Bush/Cheney


When Vermont Governor Jim Douglas, a Republican with reasonably close ties to President Bush, asked if there was any additional business to be considered at the town meeting he was running in Middlebury, Ellen McKay popped up and proposed the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

The governor was not amused. As moderator of the annual meeting, he tried to suggest that the proposal to impeach -- along with another proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq -- could not be voted on.

But McKay, a program coordinator at Middlebury College, pressed her case. And it soon became evident that the crowd at the annual meeting shared her desire to hold the president to account.

So Douglas backed down.

"It became clear that no one was going home until they had the chance to discuss the resolutions and vote on them," explained David Rosenberg, a political science professor at Middlebury College. "And being a good politician, he allowed the vote to happen."

By an overwhelming voice vote, Middlebury called for impeachment. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=172344

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1. Kick & Rec for sanity from VT! (nt)

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2. Yeah, cause if he doesn't let

them vote on Impeachment for the lying bushhead then his office would be in jeopardy next election..being the politician that he is.