Local Efforts to Initiate Impeachment Proceedings Against Bush and Cheney

I love reading the "headlines" on GOP.com. The posting on June 6, "The REAL Dem Agenda: Impeachment," concerns all of the local - but nationwide - initiatives for impeachment that have met with success.

And, classically, the RNC's point is that seeking impeachment is a really radical thing to do, and that only the "liberal elites" of the "ultra left" support such a shocking thing. All of this gets back to the GOP talking point about "loony liberals." In other words, you must be CRAZY to think about impeaching the president.

As mentioned on www.bushscrewedamerica.com, we point out that impeachment isn't at all as radical as the Republican leadership would have you believe.

...this is another attempt to make the impeachment movement sound like something only radicals could get behind—which is ridiculous. Public support for impeachment has been growing for quite some time. As far back as October 2005 a poll found that 50% of Americans agreed with the statement, "If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by impeaching him." (AfterDowningStreet.org commissioned the poll, which was conducted by the non-partisan group Ipsos Public Affairs.) In mid-March 2006, another poll by the American Research Group showed that 48% of voters polled favored Sen. Feingold’s plan for censuring Bush. Notably, so did 29% of Republican voters who were polled. From that same poll, 43% of voters favored impeachment – 18% of Republicans included. In May 2006, a non-scientific poll on MSNBC showed that 84% of respondents favor impeachment based on the illegal wiretapping, and the misinformation leading up to the Iraq invasion.

In other words, the impeachment movement is not relegated to the fringes of society after all.

And why do the Republicans want to you to think it's such a crazy idea? Because they're complicit in the illegal activities of the administration. If Bush and Cheney are impeached and convicted of their crimes, guess who's next in line.