Do They Dare to Say "Impeach"?

One person's airtight legal case is another's "Stay out the Bushes."

Tim Cavanaugh | June 1, 2006

p class="COlargetext-1stpgrph"> You’ll never find span class="c1">anyone as impartial, disinterested, judicious, and concerned only with the well-being of the American people as a party hack laying into a politician from a rival party. Thus the case for the impeachment of President George W. Bush has grown organically from the very fabric of the universe. It’s not that Democrats are motivated by frustration with Bush and his party’s electoral winning streak—hell, the Dems profoundly regret that they’ve been brought to this! It’s that Bush’s lies and violations of the Constitution are so egregious, so without precedent in American history, that we must activate the gravest of constitutional mechanisms. o:p> /o:p> /span> /p> p class="COlargetext c2"> span class="c1">To wit: In his 286-page report The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War , House Judiciary Committee member John Conyers (D-Mich.) isn’t grinding any party ax. Rather, the problem is that “we have found that there is substantial evidence the President, the Vice President, and other high-ranking members of the Bush Administration misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to go to war with Iraq.” o:p> /o:p> /span> /p>