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...Republican "culture of corruption" but there is a leftist-Democrat "culture of treason."

...can apparently be found here.  I have no idea whether or not they're still in effect; this type of polysci esoterica isn't one of my burning interests.

shows this idea has been floating around for a while on the net (at least since the beginning of the year).

The problem is that I think this was in the original manuals of Jefferson but it is not in the current house manual.

In fact, the main instigator of all of this seems to be impeachbush.tv .

However, what they do is provide the actual link to the House Rules , but then in their quotes about being able to impeach at a state level, they NEVER refer to the actual document but to their own material.

I suspect that this is because somewhere along the line that "state legistlature" provision was stricken, even if it was in Jefferson's orignal manual.

The other possibility, I supposse, is if these aren't the House's FULL RULES.

It appears to be in the document he linked ... however, I'm still not sure if that is the official rules or merely some text about the rules.

As noted the specific section does not appear in my rules.

Found it by going down my link as well, so it is in there.

Reading further, it still has to go to the Judiciary Committee.  

I don't know that this changes anything right now.

For all I know they threw this stuff out a century ago, or last week, or whenever.

Lying to a dem?

The culture of treason doesn't stand a chance.

go to the Judiciary committee?

the 2006 elections are gonna be the best political drama for the last umpteen years? As it is now, all this impeachment talk is symbolic. Give the dems back the house or senate, then it's time to get the popcorn.

What the $%$&^%&$%%@#$% is going on in this country?

• Treason is patriotism.
  
• How many ways can we find to try to impeach the president.
  
• US Troops as Nazi Stormtroopers.
  
• Legitimize people who violate the immigration laws because there are too many of them here for too long.

What has happened? Does hatred so dominate the left that they are unable to see the damage it does? Are they blind to payback, it only ever escalates, it never goes back in the box.

of the House and move to impeach Bush, he should not even waste the taxpayers money and mount a defense.  Just let them do whatever they want.  Show such disdain for it that they hold these hearings and no one shows up to defend him.  The accused doesn't have to mount a defense if he doesn't want to.  We all know before the start who is going to vote for impeach and who isnt.  

And wont it be lovely, maybe Bush will resign (cuz their will never be 67 votes inthe Senate) and we can have a President CHENEY!!!!!

for national media coverage.  Shameless grandstanding that would make even Hillary blush.  

By the way, can cold blooded animals blush?

I think :-(

I just logged on this afternoon and this was the first thing that hit me. I lost it for a second.

The rules of a trial will be in place. There is no proof of a lie, there is no proof of intelligence manipulation, there is no proof a single, solitary act that would remotely qualify as a high crime or misdemeanor.

I have little interest in the parliamentarian wrangling as to how impeachment hearings get started. I would dearly love to see the wheels set in motion to expose the Democrats for what they are, partisans for whom nothing is more important than regaining control of two branches of the federal government.  Let the Dems once again open the door squarely into their collective noses.

The issue will be framed by the Dems and the MSM in relation to the Clinton impeachment as comparing a lie about sex to a lie about sending our troops to war.  An aggressive defense against impeachment will clearly show the comparison to be of a lie by Clinton to bolster his chances in a civil case to which he was a party versus President Bush risking political capital to protect the American people.

As far as being a distraction from other business, I have no doubt that the GWOT will continue and continue effectively and immigration reform is too politically charged to be simply dropped; in all other regards, a good deal of gridlock would be good for our state of affairs.

If the libs win the House and senate, GWB will be impeached and removed from office.  He is hated with so much convcition, that it will happen.

Serve them right.

is that it puts Nancy Pelosi one heartbeat from 1600 Pennsylvania. Now if that doesn't make you lose sleep and work your backside off to get out the Republican vote in November nothing will.

that President Cheney would name a VP rather quickly????

They're also trying it in California, and BooKitty is right: she wants the headlines.  She was just reelected in March, and I assume hers is a psycho seat, but IMPEACH BUSH sells big with the press.

We also have to consider, though, that actually believe this stuff: lying about to finish his dad's work, spying on Aunt Marge, etc.  I don't even think they know why, but I'd suggest that they've been brainwashed by an expensive PR machine

It's drip, drip, drip, drip...

I wonder where they'll be mentally in ten years?

the replacement has to be approved by a majority vote in both houses. Draw your own conclusion.

and install their Speaker of the House, making it the first ever America coup.

Then, unless there is massive civil disobedience, they will enfranchise the illegal aliens by 2008 and seek to become to America what PRI has been to Mexico: the source institutional corruption and ineffectiveness for decades.

I wonder where they'll be mentally in ten years?

The only reason I would care one way or another is if insanity is their defense in a treaon trial. I can see it now "not guilty by reason of being a Democrat"

er don't they need to win the Senate too before any of that happens?

. . .win that Senate election by a rather volcanic margin--it still takes two-thirds in the Senate to get a conviction.  If I'm not mistaken, there literally are not enough R seats at risk to make that happen in 2006, even if the voters went full moonbat.

That was sort of what I was implying.

If the dems get their way via rabble rousing and fear mongering and take the Congress, we can expect what I just outlined.

If the Democrats want to run on "Impeach Bush!" in 2006, then I say we should encourage them to run as far with it as they can.  Then we can campaign on "See? They really are nutjobs."  That might be our best chance of keeping control of Congress.

regarding the Dem's mental state.

Remember the congressional staffer who was caught spying for Iraq and the MSM found that the only thing of note about her was that she was Andy Card's second cousin?

http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0607/lindauer.php

Eureka!

I wish them all the luck House Republicans had when they impeached President Clinton. I can think of few ways we could more quickly get President Bush's approval ratings up again than a Democratic House holding impeachment hearings chaired by John Conyers and egged on by Cynthia McKinney. It might be a nuisance, but it strikes me as an excellent way for the Dems to hang themselves.