If the opposition can’t win an election how do you expect to engineer an impeachment? Making these comments in this forum is as productive as an act of masturbation. Which I think makes you all a bunch of …….....

If you impeach Bush, remember who steps into office . . .

Nice thought, but that usually takes a congress that is controlled by the other party. Last time I looked the entire place was 'run' by Republicans. Nero is a great analogy. While Rome burned...Look at India and China amassing huge industrial wealth and huge competitive advantages in our 'global' marketplace. While 'W' fiddles with his homemade NEOCONNIVING war (using all the money that we can borrow from our grandchildren). The man is an ass and an intellectually challenged one at that. So forget the wishful thinking about impeachment for war crimes or ineptitude. Let us keep the pressure on the government and the press about the lies, fraud, greed, and waste that is being committed in our names. Finally, enough of the French bashing. It is old, uncalled for and quite sophmoric. These people were our only allies when we were striving to be free. If you forget history, you might as well be in this administration.

Bill

I've always wondered how my parents stood by and watched civil rights protestors viciously attacked, American kids killed in Vietnam and other unnecessary, unjust and Anti-American activities without the least bit of involvement on their parts. Now that I'm a parent of young children I know that just making it through the day can be a huge challenge, and I forgive their complacency. But how will my children judge my generation? The stakes seem so much higher now that our own country's safety is at stake. Thank you, Garrison Keillor, for speaking out and waking me up (as well as all the other people to whom I emailed the article). Why are we waiting until 2008 to get rid of this guy?

At a certain point, failure to impeach, despite mountains of evidence, equals complicity.

Another reason for NOW NOW NOW is that at some point, Al-Quaeda or whoever might issue a call to have Bush removed. And when that happens, Democrats will not be able to impeach without being accused of caving in to terrorists.

Bush will never be impeached by the current Congress or by any Congress that will be elected come November. That is a completely unrealistic and unachievable goal.

Instead of wasting our breath on this, moderate and liberal candidates need to take back more seats in the Congress and Senate. I don't think candidates will win based on an "Impeach Bush" platform.

Issues like these may be attractive to many voters on both sides of the aisle:

-Forcing major employers to contribute to their employees health care costs (i.e., Walmart)

-Getting America's reputation back on track by sticking to the Geneva convention

-Rebuilding the devasted Southeast

-Not invading Iran and setting a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq.

-Improving disaster and attack preparedness and so on.

We are all in this together. We will never convince a majority of the people that what the President has done is unconsitutional. Let's work together and help make the changes that need to be made to get this country back on track.

'Cause we're the only ones here. I doubt DLC members of Congress are reading Salon. (Do any Congressmen read it?)

Though I couldn't agree more with Mr. Keillor's words, I'm beginning to get a sense of futility from calls for impeachment in the liberal press. It's our version of Bush calling for a mission to Mars. Who are we waiting for to lead the charge? Joe Biden? Hilary Clinton? Joe Lieberman? The Democrats in the Senate couldn't present a united front against Samuel Alito.

What Dems need to concentrate on is electing new leaders, preferably ones that have spunk and spine. Ones that actually aren't afraid to make a stink when things like Abu Graib come to light, instead of cowering in front of the microphones because they don't want to be seen as "not supporting the troops." Then maybe talk of impeachment would not seem like powerless people posturing before mirrors.

this is what I wrote in response to Michelle Goldberg's Dec 22nd

"Bush's impeachable offense"

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/12/22/impeach/index.html

"There is little question in my mind that the president should not be allowed to be above the law, and George Bush,jr pretty clearly feels that he is. The problem, as I see it, is that the last impeachment has effectively rendered it a joke, an empty gesture that no longer has moral weight.

Clinton was impeached. He was caught in a lie, he apologized, and went on about his business, governing for 2 more years. In the unlikely event Bush,jr is impeached, I imagine he will also go on about his business and stay in office. Only instead of apologizing, he'll be indignant.

What's needed is the political will to impeach him and either remove him from office and imprison him, or remove him from office and offer him a deal to rat out puppetmasters Cheney and Rumsfeld, so that they may be put in prison. He is a coward and he would do it."

*****

Of course, there are a lot of other rats: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and undoubtedly many others, who should have known better but decided to beat the war drums. The generally compliant US press can't be impeached, but what are you gonna do...

But as far as this op-ed goes: Ms. Goldberg got here 1st, and probably doesn't make as much per word as Keillor. If you want to be congratualated for your boldness Garrison, I'd say get over yourself.

Atta boy, Garrison. I knew you had it in you.

I have an old 4-CD set of Prairie Home Companion excepts that I listen to once and awhile. In one of the excerpts, you speak out about the bombing of Baghdad during the first Gulf war. You say something like: "We haven't had war on our soil for a long time. We should think twice before raining bombs down upon others." That idea has always stuck with me. I'm glad to see that you are again willing to use your eloquent voice, literary skills, and national attention to speak out against governmental amorality.

Another issue that could be grounds for impeachment is the substantial evidence that Bush lied about the presence of WMDs in Iraq to convince congress and the public that the war was necessary.