Jack Caffetry of CNN is asking the impeachment question today.
4 p.m. ET: Do you think it’s an “impeachable offense” for the president to authorize domestic spying without a warrant?
You can say, hell yes, here.
Barbara Boxer is on CNN at this moment, quoting John Dean, President Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense."
Add these voices to the others who are raising the subject of impeachment:
U.S. Representative John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who was a critical player in the Watergate and Iran-Contra investigations into presidential wrongdoing, has introduced a package of resolutions that would censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney and create a select committee to investigate the Administration's possible crimes and make recommendations regarding grounds for impeachment.
The Conyers resolutions add a significant new twist to the debate about how to hold the administration to account. Members of Congress have become increasingly aggressive in the criticism of the White House, with U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, saiying Monday, "Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuses of power by an overzealous President. It has become apparent that this Administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Country's law-abiding citizens, and against our Constitution." Even Republicans, including Senate Judiciary Committee chair Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, are talking for the first time about mounting potentially serious investigations into abuses of power by the president.
Members of Congress in both parties will need to feel a lot of heat if these improtant measures are going to get much traction in this Congress.
The grassroots group Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), which has had a good deal of success organizing activists who want the Democrats to take a more aggressive stance in challenging the administration, will play a critical role in the effort to mobilize support for the Conyers resolutions, as part of a new Censure Bush Coalition campaign.
The campaign's website can be found at www.censurebush.org
Stand with Congressman Conyers
Barbara Boxer and John Lewis Start Impeachment Talk
For more on Barbara Boxer's efforts, see Josh Marshall
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