Archive for the ‘impeachment’ Category

Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Waxman held off an immediate contempt citation of Mukasey, but only as a courtesy to lawmakers not present Wednesday and to give all members a chance to read up on the matter. He made clear that he thinks Mukasey, who requested that Bush invoke executive privilege to shield the records, ...

Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles on House Floor

Monday, June 9th, 2008

"In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of ...

Impeachment: If not now, when?

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

The issue is not about removing Bush and Cheney as much as it is about preserving the Constitution and redeeming the office of the executive. The Constitution is the contract of governance between the people and the government. What happens when major portions of the contract are violated?Read the full ...

Former WH Press Sec.: Bush, Rove helped pass along ‘false information’ on Plame

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

"I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself."Read the full story

Radio hosts slam top Democrats for reluctance to consider impeachment

Monday, October 15th, 2007

I don't see a connection between this and impeachment," Pelosi said, asked about a newly released secret memo on US interrogation tactics. A moment later, she side-stepped a repeat of the same question by elaborating on her goal to "bring the country behind a return to an America that honors ...

Bush seeks nearly $200 billion for more war

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Time to impeach? Defense Secretary Robert Gates will ask Congress on Wednesday to approve nearly $190 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, increasing initial projections by more than a third.Read the full story

Bush Distorts Qaeda Links, Critics Assert

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

“The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq,” he said, “were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th, and that’s why what happens in Iraq matters to the security here at home.” Grounds for impeachment? Violation of the oath of office? Read the full ...

Edwards: Bush’s Iraq/September 11 remarks ‘border on the delisonal’

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

"The president's remarks today defending his Iraq policy without regard to actual facts border on the delusional," Edwards said in a statement released Thursday, hours after a Bush press conference. "The president claimed that the same people attacking U.S. troops today are the ones who perpetrated 9/11."Read the full story

New poll shows majority of Americans think Cheney should be impeached

Friday, July 6th, 2007

The video comes the same day that a polling firm found a majority of Americans supporting impeachment of the Vice President. American Research Group, in a poll of 1,100 respondents taken from July 3-5, found that 54% of Americans favored impeachment.Read the full story

Bush spares Libby from prison term

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

resident Bush commuted the sentence of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on Monday, sparing him from a 2½-year prison term that Bush said was excessive.Read the full story