Vermont Towns Vote to Impeach President

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Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:37 am

Vermont Towns Vote to Impeach President

March 8, 2006 8:00 a.m. EST

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Newfane, VT (AHN) - Collectively, five communities in Vermont have reached the consensus to impeach President Bush. At a town hall meeting in Newfane, Vermont, an impeachment article is approved by a paper ballot 121-29 Tuesday.

The article calls on Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against President Bush, alleging he misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying.

Newfane select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article, explains, "It absolutely affects us locally. It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, who are dying" in the war in Iraq.

Four other Vermont towns - Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro and Putney - jumped on the impeachment bandwagon endorsing similar resolutions.

In Newfane, the impeachment item came at the end of a roughly four-hour meeting that was devoted mostly to the local affairs of the town of 1,600 located in southeastern Vermont.

In response to the Newfane vote, Rep. Sanders issued a statement saying that although the Bush administration "has been a disaster for our country, and a number of actions that he has taken may very well not have been legal," given the reality that the Republicans control the House and the Senate, "it would be impractical to talk about impeachment."

Jim Barnett, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, says Sanders should reject the resolution: "We should not be impeaching presidents just because we disagree with them."

Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:38 am

Crazy!

You know here in Canada we just elected a new Prime Minister (that's our "President") and government as our last government fell due to a no confidence vote mostly because of a "sponsorship scandal". The sponsorship scandal was a major thing for Canada (but it won't seem big outside of Canada) as over a million dollars was "diverted" from advertising to our elected officials pockets. So in a way, we impeached our whole government over a few million dollars!

Mike.

CNF2002 · #3 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:56 am

Its about time. We can impeach a president for lying to a court about his personal life, but we can't impeach one for lying to the nation.

bennettoid · Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:42 am

CNF2002 wrote:Its about time. We can impeach a president for lying to a court about his personal life, but we can't impeach one for lying to the nation.

Clinton was impeached for lieing under oath and denying a citizen her right to a fair trial. He was also disbarred by his home state of Arkansas.

Bush has not lied to his nation, and if you believe that then your as whacko as these people. He's going to be gone in 2 years, then who are you going to hate?

CNF2002 · #5 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:52 am

From what I've seen he made misleading statements during his addresses, encouraging our war. He's spent ungodly amounts of money on this war and its just put us deep into debt. The whole wiretapping thing needs to be looked at also.

What fair trial are you talking about?

Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:22 am

bennettoid wrote:Clinton was impeached for lieing under oath and denying a citizen her right to a fair trial. He was also disbarred by his home state of Arkansas.

Excuse my ignorance in US politics, but I didn't know that's what happened to Clinton (that he was impeached).

Any guesses who will be replacing Bush in 2 years? After the Canadian sponsor scandle the people voted in the Progressive Conservative govenment who we never thought would actually win over the Liberals!

Mike

CNF2002 · #7 Unread post by **CNF2002** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:27 am

Whoever we vote for I guess!

I haven't heard any solid candidate choices for either party.

Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:54 am

bennettoid wrote:
CNF2002 wrote:Its about time. We can impeach a president for lying to a court about his personal life, but we can't impeach one for lying to the nation.
Clinton was impeached for lieing under oath and denying a citizen her right to a fair trial. He was also disbarred by his home state of Arkansas.

Bush has not lied to his nation, and if you believe that then your as whacko as these people. He's going to be gone in 2 years, then who are you going to hate?

If a surgeon made as many mistakes as bush, he woulda been sued and lost his lisence to practice a long time ago.

Go Vermont.

Not that i really want Cheny in charge of the country...

flynrider · #9 Unread post by **flynrider** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:01 am

CNF2002 wrote:From what I've seen he made misleading statements during his addresses, encouraging our war. He's spent ungodly amounts of money on this war and its just put us deep into debt. The whole wiretapping thing needs to be looked at also.

Making misleading statements and spending ungodly amounts of money are the norm for most U.S. politicians (regardless of party affiliation). What amazes me is that people are actually surprised about it.

Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:53 am

the misleading statements can be easily explained and forgiven.
it is just too much to ask of our politicians to correctly inform the public of actual events that they control.when they have to keep track of all the bribes and kickback money and crooked deals in the works at any given time, it is easy to see how they can become confused on some issues.