So I've been thinking about what a bipartisan impeachment of President Bush might look like. We'd need some articles of impeachment that right wingers can agree with.
Something like this:
The history of the president is a history of high crimes and misdemeanors against Americans:
-- He has failed for five years to avenge the deaths of 3,000 of our citizens, allowing their killer to turn nations against America while the terrorist taunts and threatens our forces overseas.
-- He has failed to secure our borders against a tidal wave of 12 million immigrants who have plundered our riches, taken our jobs and violated our laws.
-- He has waged a war to disarm Iraq but contrary to Congress’ war declaration has let the weapons of that nation’s former dictator fall into the hands of rebels and terrorists, who are using these explosives to kill American soldiers and defeat America in Iraq.
-- He has failed to protect the Christian faithful, making the Christians of Iraq a people without a country as they flee to other lands just ahead of the swords of the Muslim horde.
-- He has failed to keep his promises regarding the sanctity of marriage and failed to bring that sacred institution under the protection of our Constitution and failed to even adequately pursue that holy goal.
-- He taxed our Legislature’s patience by nominating an unqualified woman to the Supreme Court before withdrawing her nomination under the condemnation of an outraged citizenry.
-- He has destroyed our armed forces by exhausting them in the midst of a distant nation’s civil war.
-- He has failed to care properly for our war-wounded soldiers.
These might not (all) be the sort of high crimes and misdemeanors we'd prefer to sack the president for, but they might be the sort that could draw enough Republican votes to prosecute the president.
What the Iraq war debate makes clear is that Congress remains under the control of Republicans. Bush will not be impeached unless the Republicans help, and they will exact a heavy price for their cooperation.