PerryVision #018 - Get Ready for the Real News

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[FunStuffForDogscom]

I agree. But you're biased, too. You want to impeach Bush? Impeaching means "to try in a court of law," not "to remove from office." You can only impeach someone for breaking the law. What law did Bush break? Even if you could prove he lied, it's still not against the law. As for the election in 2000, our country is not a democracy; it's a republic. If you want a one-man-one-count system, change the constitution. As long as there are humans reporting the news, there will be errors and bias.

[jperryam]

Then there are the illegal signing statements (several hundred of them, challenging some 1200 different statutes), with which he claims the non-existent power to ignore laws passed by Congress as he sees fit. And then we have the 2007 GAO study which revealed that he has indeed violated at least 30% of the laws that he has claimed the non-existent power to ignore at his will. You need to stop being an apologist for the most corrupt administration and worst media this country has ever seen.

[FunStuffForDogscom]

You're not citing the actual laws. No one wants to think that we could be spied on without a warrant. But is it actually against the law? Which law? What legislation was broken by Bush's "ignoring" acts of Congress? Look them up and tell us what they are.

[jperryam]

You're kidding, right? Read the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Google FISA. Look it up yourself. Do your own homework. It's part of your responsibility as a citizen to have at least some kind of a clue.

[jperryam]

Because there wasn't enough votes in the Senate to remove him from office. Impeachment is the political equivalent of indictment, and a Senate vote to remove is the political equivalent of conviction. It's anybody's guess why criminal charges wer not filed after he left office. Probably because the people going after him didn't really care about the lie. They probably figured they scored sufficient political points with the impeachment itself.

[FunStuffForDogscom]

Clinton actually was impeached for lying under oath about Lewinsky. This is a crime. How come he wasn't removed from office?

[jperryam]

But since you asked about laws that he has broken, how about (and this is just for starters) the one that he not only publicly admitted to breaking, but also defiantly vowed to KEEP breaking, and is indeed STILL breaking? The law that says you can't spy on American citizens without a warrant (FISA). This is not just a criminal infraction, but also obviously a violation of the Constitution. He should have been impeached and removed on the spot for this crime alone.

[jperryam]

Sorry, but you're just plain mistaken. Impeachment (after investigation & a vote in the House) and removal (after a trial & vote in the Senate) of the president (or any other civil officer of the U.S.) are not criminal proceedings. It's the penalty for violating the oath to honor the Constitution, which, with Bush and Cheney, is clearly the case multiple times over, and would be about as hard to prove as the fact that the sun rises in the east, if only we didn't have a Congress full of cowards.

[FunStuffForDogscom]

Fox makes it known they are right wing. This is more honest than CNN, MSNBC and the others, who are left wing but pretend they're not.