Wall Street Journal examines impeachment effort
RAW STORY
Published: March 6, 2006
The Wall Street Journal, considered among the more conservative standard-bearers of the mainstream American print media, examines the effort to impeach President George W. Bush in Monday editions, RAW STORY has learned.
The article examines the grassroots effort and notes that party leaders are distancing themselves from the movement, looking to the 1998 House races in which Republicans used the prospect of impeaching President Clinton and failed to make congressional gains. Excerpts follow.
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If Democratic candidate Tony Trupiano wins a Michigan House seat this fall, he pledges that one of his first acts will be to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush.
That has earned Mr. Trupiano the endorsement of ImpeachPAC, a group of Democratic activists seeking to remove Mr. Bush from office. ImpeachPAC's Web site lists 14 candidates offering similar commitments, which are reminiscent of the Republican drive to oust former President Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But Mr. Trupiano's pledge hasn't much impressed Democratic Party leaders, who are keeping their distance from impeachment talk. They remember how the effort boomeranged on Republicans in the 1998 midterm elections, when Mr. Clinton's adversaries expected to gain House seats but lost ground instead.
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