On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:51:04 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Kraus
<jkraus_1999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Jul 24, 12:58 pm, David Johnston <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:40:30 -0700, Major Debacle
>>
>> <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >Nine Republicans broke ranks to vote with 229 Democrats to send a
single
>> >article of impeachment against George W Bush to the House Judiciary
>> >Committee for hearings. No Democrat voted against the resolution.
>>
>> Ooh. They're going to have...hearings.
>
>David, you're correct that they know they can't get a conviction in
>the Senate against Bush. Too many Republicans. That situation will
>be rectified in November, but Bush will be out of power in January.
>What they're likely to do is impeach him in the House, but no have no
>trial. Then, next year, with a Democratic President and a much more
>heavily Democratic Congress, they will have private citizen George
>Bush investigated by an independant counsel. He could end up getting
>charged with violating the U.S. Constitution, and sent to prison in
>the U.S. Or, he could be sent to Europe for prosecution for War
>Crimes. As for your "pleaaaaaaaaaaaaasse, that WON'T HAPPEN", do you
>remember Vice President Spiro Agnew? He did two years in Federal
>Prison for felony obstruction of Justice.
Spiro Agnew went to jail because he accepted bribes before he became
Vice President, not for "violating the U.S. constitution". Politicians
routinely make law and policy only to have it reversed by the Supreme
Court for violating the constitution. They don't go to jail for it
because "violating the U.S. constitution" is not in itself a criminal
offense.
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