Impeachment Back On the Table
This entry was posted on 2/3/2007 10:41 AM and is filed under Bush vs Balance of Powers.
I, among a lot of other people, believe Bush's use of the signing statements is probably the most critical of all the things he has done that qualify hiim for impeachment. As bad as all the rest including the loss of life resulting from his decisions, he has virtually changed our mode of government. Effectively, he has destroyed over 200 years of building a free nation and turned it into a dictatorship. -Faye
Chairman Conyers puts Bush abuse of power `On the table'
by
Dave LindorffJanuary 30, 2007
Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have taken impeachment "off the table," but House Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) is about to put it back on the menu.
Conyers may have been blocked by a timid Pelosi from initiating impeachment hearings immediately into President Bush's crimes against the Constitution, but he's taken the first step anyway, with the anouncement of plans to hold hearings into what is surely the President's gravest abuse of power.
The congressman, a veteran of the Nixon impeachment hearings who recently published a book on Bush's crimes, today announced plans to have his Judiciary Committee hold hearings on Bush's rampant use of so-called "signing statements." These are the documents the president has claimed give him the power, as a commander-in-chief, to ignore laws duly passed by the Congress.
Bush has used this bogus claim to ignore all or parts of some 1200 laws passed by Congress. He has done it willfully, and he has done it deceptively, often adding the signing statement saying he will be ignoring a law after having first hosted a friendly photo-op signing session at which he offer no indication that he had any problem with a measure.
The first Judiciary Committee hearing is set for January 31.
Read the rest at:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2007/2385Look to the right. There are other articles that have on-line blogging telling you what is going on during these hearings. Gives some real insight on what's going on in our government.