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To: combjelly who wrote (265450)	12/21/2005 1:20:15 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573682

No cancelling impeachment to save the country. The rightwing impeached Clinton for cheating on his wife. They had no business knowing that in the first place. They did hurt our country. But right now, it is Bush-Cheney who are hurting our country. And attacking the heart of our democracy. With arrogance and open scorn. This Iraq War is a fiasco. They just elected an Islamic fundamentalist government in. And Bush claims that's victory? We are in really deep trouble in this country, folks. Only the big corp Bush cronies are winning.

To: combjelly who wrote (265450)	12/21/2005 1:46:42 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 1573682

Nope, the President should be subject to the law as everybody else is, at least for the crimes that he is charged with committing while holding the office of President.

To: combjelly who wrote (265450)	12/21/2005 3:00:32 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573682

Which illustrates why this is a Bad Idea. Yeah, the impeachment process isn't perfect, far from it. But it at least has a certain thresh hold that has to be exceeded, lawsuits don't. Arguably, the job of President is important enough that to take them off the job to deal with a lawsuit, means the lawsuit should be real. Now granted, the Paula Jones case probably wasn't one of those. But, rightly or wrongly, it is our touchstone now. The obvious problem with impeachment is that if your party agrees with your bad behavior, or out of loyalty, defends you, and that party has control of both houses, a president could literally get away with murder. As for your concern about crackpot lawsuits, a creditable judge would throw out a frivolous lawsuit against the president in a NY minute. Actually, I think a lawsuit brought on by the people, The PEOPLE vs GW Bush would be a healthy catharsis for the country and would reconnect people with their gov't.