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What was Spitzer's impeachable offense? The "lowest" crime in the book.
As we know, the Founding Fathers wanted Impeachment to be used for "High Crimes" like treason, bribery, war crimes, and subverting the Constitution itself. Eliot Spitzer committed no "High Crimes" - but George Bush and Dick Cheney most certainly have, and they continue to do so with absolute impunity.
It's time for Congress to impeach them for it.
Sixteen months ago, we posted a petition listing 10 High Crimes which justified their impeachment: (1) Starting a "war of aggression" (2) torture (3) arbitrary detention (4) war crimes (5) warrantless wiretapping (6) signing statements (7) election fraud (8) outing a covert CIA operative (9) the "unitary executive" (10) gross negligence for Katrina and global warming.
Each one of these crimes is as unacceptable today as it was then. After five years in Iraq (see below), Bush has killed nearly 4,000 Americans and over one million Iraqis and incurred $3 trillion in costs. And there are many more crimes we could add, including Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence to stop him from testifying about the crimes of Bush and Cheney themselves, and Bush's ongoing threats to bomb Iran. And each one makes Spitzer's "crime" utterly insignificant by comparison.
Over 137,000 of you have signed this petition, and we thank you. (If you've forgotten, our form won't let you sign twice.) But many of you have not. And in the wake of the Republican effort to impeach Eliot Spitzer for his "low" crime, every American who is outraged by Bush's "High Crimes" should sign it.
Please tell your Senators and Representative to Impeach Bush and Cheney Now:
And thanks for all you do to make the world a better place.
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Check out Gov. Eliot Spitzer's public apology.
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Re: Spitzer Resigns: It's Time To Impeach Bush
By Brandon, March 12, 2008 at 13:35Oh please! General Washington skinned the bodies of French settlers to frame the native Americans and ignite a frontier war, and he was the principal among these founding fathers.
I am morally opposed to the war in Iraq, but it is clearly a legal use of the powers bestowed upon the American presidential office. There is NOTHING in law, custom or precedence which gives any credence to an impeachment position. NOTHING. No president can be impeached for exercising his powers as commander-in-cheif as he sees fit. If it were otherwise the country would be incapable of defending itself because no president would risk it. In fact, the President of the United Sates has the legal authority to suspend the democracy for a temporary period - how's that for "unitary executive". If he wanted he could be a dictator for seventy-five days. Even then your proposition that he be impeached would be legally baseless.
Spitzer was a hypocrit and the fact that he needed to be pressured to resign is pathetic. Despite my moral opposition to the present war in Iraq it is completely lawful and within the explicitly stated powers of the commander-in-chief.
This entire movement is baseless at law.
Everyone should have chosen more wisely in the election process. The President has a lot of power - that's why choosing the right candidate is so incredibly important.