Helping the GOP Support a Useless Impeachment Process.

1.Q. What is impeachment?
A. It is a process, authorized by the Constitution, to bring charges against certain officials of the federal government for misconduct while in office.

2. What are the grounds for impeachment?
A. As noted above, the Constitution specifies that high government officials may be impeached for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." What precisely constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors" is, however, uncertain because the courts have not specifically defined or interpreted the term, unlike other constitutional clauses. Treason and bribery are very serious offenses against the state, and most experts agree that offenses encompassed within "high crimes and misdemeanors" are similarly serious. ("Misdemeanors" is a constitutional term that does not have the current meaning of an offense less serious than a felony.)

3. Q. What punishment does the Constitution prescribe after Impeachment if the official is convicted?
A. Article 1, Section 3, also specifies, "Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law." http://www.abanet.org/publiced/impeach2.html

Interesting set of explanations I think. In number 1 & 2  I think we all can agree that our current administration qualifies handsdown. So what's the holdup and why the no effort to bringing impeachment? It is pretty clear in number 3. There is no punishment except removal from office. What sense is it? Absolutely makes no sense. Why should the people suffer an impeachment process when there is no consequences to Bush and Cheney? New elections do the same thing. What is really interesting is the rest of #3. in which the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment.

Now is that fair to our distinguished GOP Republican Representatives? I think not. In fact they are certainly held as hostages more than Democrats at this demurring moment.  People in the Senate want to hold the party together before the ideals of the Constitution because the party deals with real people, and the constitution is nothing but a GD piece of paper according to Bush. So why should the party members be the ones to suffer the consequences from Bush and Cheney? The Party will face the punishment, not Bush and Cheney. And so who in the Senate agrees to this outlandish hijacking?

To me this is a grave error in which any elected Official can get away with crimes. It's why they always lie and get away with murder,  because they know they can get away with it. They know the Senate and Congress will not seek impeachment because it does more harm to them than to the leaders who broke the law, namely Bush and Cheney.

No wonder Truman and LBJ and Nixon got away with crimes because there is no consequence to the crimes they committ; except removal from office. That's why Nixon resigned, and Ford did not seek further punitive action, because he couldn't go against Nixon. It would have brought considerable punishment to the Republican party.

And so what about the Constitution? What about the rule of Law? Why does the Senate and Congress take the brunt of blame for actions committed by the President and Vice President?

There needs to be a change to the law of Impeachment, and that would be that the President and Vice President are held accountable with more than simple removal from office. There needs to be some punitive action provided that does not shift blame to the Senate and Congress in their attempt to protect the balance of power in the Constitution.  If the President and Vice President break the law they need to face money fines, prison time, and even recission of appointments they have made to the Supreme Court.

What I am proposing is giving America back its Constitution by making the guilty- guility and not hanging their offenses on the Senate and Congress. If we can assure the GOP will not suffer consequences to Bush and Cheney crimes, there will be movement forward with a swift process of impeachment that bites the right guilty party. This means passing a bill to ammend the Impeachment process to protect Congress and the Senate. Bush could veto, but it can be easily overridden....and now we have the making of needed Justice in America's Impeachment Justice system. I hope the GOP will consider coming to the rescue for America instead of remaining in the clutches to the senseless Impeachment process that convicts them instead of the real guilty leaders.

If we don't process this and use Impeachment with this correct format, our country will suffer greatly from not using it. How can a country be immune from Impeachment? How can there be a stated process, when there really is none yet? It needs to be realized.

Pelosi and Reid are right..that impeachment should not be tabled....but they are wrong in not stating why and how to fix this mess as I have proposed here. Pelosi and Reid know they would suffer as much as the Republican party because Democrats do get support from Republican constituencies.  It is bringing Impeachment to a new revised correction that will protect Republicans and Democrats while making the Impeachment process a viable justified process to begin with, by punishing those leaders who break the law and lie to the American people.

Thousands of innocent people have died through the years not only in Japan, and Vietnam, and now in Iraq and Afghanistan, and really in Palestine. Foreign Countries are working fervently to cut America off. They are building themselves into the right example of America, while leaving out the bad stuff, and that is very appealing to everyone. Look at the strength of the Euro these days, look at the fall of the dollar, the housing market, and the ever declining support to the MIC...Military Industrial Complex. America will be left out in the cold, as other countries build forms of Government that have real laws that protect the people, unlike the fraud of Democracy the US is trying to push down the worlds throat. If America does not embrace Impeachment as a necessary step to protecting the people, it is clear that Democracy is nothing more than a form of controlled hand-me-down dictatorship. 

Impeachment tells us there is a rule of law, and respect in the land of Governments. Without it America will crumble as it is doing today...more crime...more uncertainty....more corruption....more murder....until its pariah nature turns on itself and men take up arms against each other with Patriots fighting Patriots into an unending American type Israel / Palestine creating a divide in the contiguous United States.This is where it is headed....unless the Senate and Congress agree they need to fix this corrupt useless Impeachment process.