‘Doesn’t get bigger than this’ - "Watergate is nothing compared to this.”

[kpete]

‘Doesn’t get bigger than this’
County Democrats sign onto impeachment resolution
Written by Ethan Dezotelle

Thursday, 23 March 2006

FRANKLIN COUNTY: NOW THEREFORE the Franklin County Democratic Committee submits that his actions and admissions constitute ample grounds for his impeachment, and that the General Assembly of the State of Vermont has good cause for submitting charges to the U.S. House of Representatives under Section 603 as grounds for George W. Bush’s impeachment.

And with those words, the Franklin County Democratic Party signed onto what has become a growing political snowball in the final days of winter.

On Monday, March 13, Steve Schlipf, Secretary of the Georgia Town Democratic Committee, proposed to a meeting of the Franklin County Democrats that they adopt what has become known as the Rutland Resolution, a 500-plus word resolution unanimously passed by the Rutland County Democratic Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 28. The resolution calls for the impeachement of Pres. George W. Bush.

“This is high crimes and misdemeanors,” Schlipf said of the resolution. “It doesn’t get any bigger than this. Watergate is nothing compared to this.”

The resolution accuses the President of, among other things, “repeatedly and intentionally” violating the U.S. Constitution and other U.S. laws, “particularly the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Torture Convention;” taking away the Constitutional rights of Americans, and “willfully and repeatedly” violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and boasting “that he would continue to do so, each violation constituting a felony...”

Unlike the handful of non-binding Town Meeting resolutions that passed earlier this month, which call U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders to file articles of impeachment against Bush, the Rutland Resolution could lead all the way to the nation’s capitol.

http://www.thecountycourier.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2769&Itemid=

[HockeyMom]

1. Having lived through Nixon and Watergate,

Bush makes Nixon look like a boy scout. We older people really need to get this message across.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Mom's right again.

as posted elsewhere, he created the EPA, he signed a SALT agreement with the ruskies AND he funded social security enough to make it last until 2009. That's pretty damned good.

Bush has started two wars, no, three, counting the domestic war on our constitution.

And every other single decision he made was the worst of all possible choices. every. single. one.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. damn. things are so bad now, that I am defending nixon on DU.

is that screwed up, or is our universe seriously bent, not warped?

[pretzel4gore]

7. i remember hating niixon

i don't hate him now...the movie 'nixon' had a scene where nixon faced some texas oilmen who sorta threatened him and he straightened them up quick. i liked that (even if only fiction)...our universe truly is bent.....even god seems to fawn over that vicious bastard bushjeezus

[Greeby]

4. Like HST said

"Where is Nixon when we really need him?" :evilgrin:

[renate]

5. At first I wondered--what can the Vermont Legislature do?

I thought, well, swell, even if the resolution goes all the way from the Franklin County Democratic Committee to the Vermont State Democratic Committee to the Vermont Legislature, can the legislature do anything?

And then, buried in the (rather hard to read font of the) text, I found something I'd skimmed over the first time: "one of several ways to put impeachment proceedings in motion is 'by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State or territory.'"

Oooooooooooh. Cool.

[kpete]

6. EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"one of several ways to put impeachment proceedings in motion is 'by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State or territory.'" "