Even if res-elected, would * last another term without impeachment?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Seems to me the strategy is just to hang on up through the election, but the wheels are already coming off. How are people going to feel two years down the line when Iraq, the economy, etc. continues to get worse? It's not like he'll be able to blame the previous admin anymore *though, not for lack of trying*.

[soothsayer]

1. He is going to lose AND be impeached after the fact by Conyers et al

n/t

[MAlibdem]

2. Yes

In all likelyhood because of the power of incumbency and gerrymandering, it will be 8-10 years before the house is recovered. The House is the vehicle of impeachment.

[Fovea]

3. Forget impeachment

think fort sumpter.

[Poiuyt]

4. As long as there is a Republican House

there will be no impeachment of a Republican president.

[Eric J in MN]

5. As long as the Republicans control the House

impeachment will be impossible.

[loudsue]

6. Besides the problem of a repuke House of Reps...the MEDIA

will never allow enough of a groundswell to force the house into impeachment proceedings.

That's why we HAVE TO STOP THE BLACK BOXES NOW!!! If we have a fair election in this country, WE WILL WIN!! If not....we have the rest of our lives to suffer...to suffer more terribly than any of us ever imagined could happen in the US of A.

:kick::kick::kick:

[AntiCoup2K4]

7. In a democracy (as we used to have) he would have already been impeached..

What Nixon did in Watergate doesn't come anywhere close to what Junior and the PNAC'ers have already gotten away with.

[shraby]

8. The men who wrote the constitution forgot

one thing..to provide a recourse for the people when congress doesn't do it's job and impeach a president who needs it. An election no longer is in the cards as a method of getting rid of an impeachable president either with Diebold in the equation.

Can he be recalled??

[Rowdyboy]

9. There have been two impeachment attempts in 215 years (Both failed)

Both had congresses controlled by their opponents. Its EXTREMELY rare...

There is no way in hell George Bush will ever be impeached by a majority of the house, much less convicted by 2/3 vote in the senate. To think otherwise is either childishness, or fantasy.

Its about as likely as the idea that Laura Bush will run off with Scott Peterson. Yeah, it COULD happen, but its not going to...

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. Now the question there is....

Could Pickles manage to hit Scott with her car before he scheduled another "fishing trip"?

[T Town Jake]

11. Since Articles of Impeachment...

...must, Constitutionally, originate in the House of Representatives, I don't think it would be even remotely feasible until at least January 3, 2007 - that's assuming a second term for Bush and the Democrats re-take the House in the '06 mid-term elections, BOTH of which are big "IFS" IMHO.
But even if those two scenarios played out, the trial for Impeachment must still take place in the Senate, and it takes 67 votes for conviction. Those Constitutional hurdles make a successful Impeachment Conviction of any sitting U.S. President a near impossibility, which is precisely why it's almost never been tried and has failed when it has been.
But this whole discussion is academic in any event, because at noon on Jan. 20, 2005 President John Kerry is going to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, after winning the presidential election on Nov. 2, 2004.

[emulatorloo]

12. I was sure Reagan would be impeached, and now they want him on the dime

It seemed to me Reagan was a goner in his second term. Look what happened there.