Public Sentiment For Impeachment Expands - Congress Shirks Duty

[babylonsister]

Public Sentiment For Impeachment Expands
by John Kaminski and Gary Higginbottom



The percentage of Americans favoring impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney is approaching the percentage who favored impeachment of President Nixon in 1973-74.Public opinion has reached this high level even before Congress has started any impeachment investigation of the Bush-Cheney administration. The public is way ahead of Congress, suggesting that it is time for the U.S. House of Representatives to move forward with the impeachment process.

In October 1973, a Gallup Poll results showed only 28 percent favored Nixon’s impeachment and removal from office. That was after a summer of well-publicized Senate Watergate Committee hearings.

Just nine months later, the day before Nixon resigned, nearly two-thirds of Americans believed there was enough evidence for an impeachment trial, and 55 percent thought Nixon should be removed from office.

That is how drastically opinion shifted once Congress acted and revealed the full extent of Nixon’s abuses of power.

Now, without any impeachment investigation by Congress, we already see the public’s desire for impeachment action approaching the level that led to Nixon’s departure from office.

Now, 55 percent of Americans believe that “President Bush has abused his powers as president, which rise to the level of impeachable offenses under the Constitution,” and 34 percent believe he should be removed from office.

For Vice President Cheney, 52 percent believe he committed impeachable offenses, and 43 percent believe he should be removed.

Perhaps most telling is that 64 percent of Americans believe that President Bush has abused his powers, and 70 percent believe that Cheney has done so. Polling was conducted by American Research Group Inc., on Nov. 9-12.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/08/5717/

[kurth]

1. But but but it's off the floor off the table!

The President needs our prayers, like the Speaker says.

[babylonsister]

2. Sigh. Seriously, I hope she reconsiders. nt

[rodeodance]

3. i hate to admit this, but any hope I had is very very FADED

[babylonsister]

4. I know, but there's so much outrage out there, and it's building. One

of these days, I have to believe Pelosi will see the light and realize she can't do much else but address all the crime. Maybe someone else will knock some sense into her.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. kick

[MonkeyFunk]

6. so 34% of Americans support impeachment and removal?