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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:43 PM Original message |
Question to Senator Feingold: Why Is Impeachment Radical? |
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TayTay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Impeachment, by Constitutional law, begins in the House |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It's also not his job to Censure either... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:59 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. There is precedent for censure going back to Andrew Jackson |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. Senate doesn't handle impeachment - they JUDGE impeachment after the fact. |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Censure has NO basis in the Constitution |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Impeachment isn't radical to me. I think censure is offered to compromise |
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alarcojon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It would be a tremendous political victory against Bush |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I don't agree that censure paves the way... it CLOSES the door |
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alarcojon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I didn't say it was |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Because IF impeachment is proposed AFTER a successful censure |
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alarcojon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 01:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. If censure fails |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
7. Impeachment is RADICAL no matter who is the president, that is a fact and |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. It's only radical if the President DOESN'T break the law |
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bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 12:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. removing a sitting president is a RADICAL course of action. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-13-06 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
15. well, imo, the PATRIOT act broke the law |
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