Hmmm, sounds like a good precedent. If so many municipalities can hold referendums against the Patriot Act, why not impeachment as well? Natarus, my alderman, likes to get his name in the paper - maybe he'll sponsor a series of impeachment hearings at City Hall?
Chicago Tribune | Vermont Towns Endorse Move to Impeach Bush
In five Vermont communities, a centuries-old tradition of residents gathering in town halls to conduct local business became a vehicle to send a message to Washington: Impeach the president. An impeachment article, approved by a paper ballot 121-29 in Newfane Tuesday, calls on Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against President Bush, alleging he misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying. “It absolutely affects us locally,” said Newfane select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article. “It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, who are dying” in the war in Iraq. At least four other Vermont towns, spurred by publicity about Newfane's resolution, endorsed similar resolutions during Tuesday's meetings: Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro and Putney.
Unfortunately, Sanders isn't so gung ho, probably because he's running for Senate at the moment:
Sanders issued a statement after the Newfane vote saying that although the Bush administration “has been a disaster for our country, and a number of actions that he has taken may very well not have been legal,” given the reality that the Republicans control the House and the Senate, “it would be impractical to talk about impeachment.”
So, don't bother sending me any more fund raising letters Congressman Sanders, ok?
Tags: Impeachment, /Patriot_Act, /Politics
