".. obvious .. Bush .. a figurehead; .. Cheney .. calling .. shots ."

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Here's an anti-impeachment article slamming W. I don't entirely agree with the article, but we need to know where people are coming from.

Impeachment would make matters worse
David Rossie

... Such an effort, it says here, would be both unrealistic and unfair to Bush. Unrealistic because despite Specter's claim, there is virtually no chance that a Republican-dominated House would vote a bill of impeachment, even though Bush may be technically deserving of it.

And unfair because Bush, despite his title, is not the culprit. It was obvious before Sept. 11, 2001, that Bush was for all practical purposes a figurehead; that Cheney was calling the shots. And it is even more obvious now that Bush's media-bestowed image as the new Churchill has worn thin ...

And if you can imagine Bush having the smarts to circumvent FISA on his own, you are one up on the White Queen, who could imagine only six impossible things before breakfast ...

A Washington wag writing recently in The American Prospect put it this way: "We could impeach Cheney, but then we'd get Bush as president." ...

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1. That's the weakest laziest excuse ever...

"Don't impeach cause you get Cheney" .... applesauce !!

If either one commited crimes then you MUST impeach,
That's pretty darn obvious to anyone with more than a
second grade education.. which ironically rules out the
freeps and apparently... the republican congress too.

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2. Well, he runs down the chain of succession ...

.. and it doesn't get better. But of course, there's an easy solution: take back Congress ...