okie wrote:Only whackos consider impeachment as even close to being logical.
Arlen Specter - Republican
"Well, the remedy could be a variety of things. A president - and I'm not suggesting remotely that there's any basis, but you're asking, really, theory, what's the remedy? Impeachment is a remedy. After impeachment, you could have a criminal prosecution, but the principal remedy, George, under our society is to pay a political price."
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Report Rebuts Bush on Spying
Domestic Action's Legality Challenged
A report by Congress's research arm concluded yesterday that the administration's justification for the warrantless eavesdropping authorized by President Bush conflicts with existing law and hinges on weak legal arguments.
"It appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic surveillance operations here," the authors of the CRS report wrote. The administration's legal justification "does not seem to be . . . well-grounded," they said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010601772.html
You really gotta wonder just who the whackos are. Did you say the same thing about Nixon?