Does Thou Speak The “I” Word?

The left wing and the people who most despise George W. Bush have been saying it for almost four years or more now. It has been dismissed as a stupid idea with no reason to do it except that they just plain don't like the man, but with scandal after scandal erupting out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and its offshoot offices, could that "I" word politicians dare not speak actually be something that may come to be in the near future?

Impeachment; only the left wing of the Democratic party, politicians like Maxine Waters of California or Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, have spoken about it, but today one very important member of Congress talk about the "I" word…Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska;

"Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed — if a president really believes that, then there are — what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that,"

Impeachment is only possible when it became clear the President had broken the law, or abused his power (which is also breaking the law.) Currently, there is no concrete evidence the President has broken the law, but, as Hagel said, if he continues on a path where he ignores Congress and everyone else, he will be seen as a man who abuses power and what he is admitting is…impeachment is a possibility, and he can't really count on his own party for support. Many of them have beef with him as well.

Take the recent imprisonment of several border control agents in Texas. After shooting an illegal immigrant drug smuggler, they were sent to prison for 10 years for lying about it, while the smuggler was set free, as he was given immunity. Many border-area Republicans calling for the agents to be pardoned, such as Dana Rohrabacher of California, have openly said if anything was to happen to the border control agents in prison, they would seek to impeach him. Even those in his party are beginning to distance themselves from the President.

While an impeachment is highly unlikely, even with a Democratic Congress (Bill Clinton was impeached, but not removed from office by a Republican Senate), it is still possible and if the President has does something that REALLY warrants impeachment, with his unpopularity, upcoming elections and depending on the seriousness of the situation, I'm not even sure the Republicans would defend the man.

Still, I'd kind of rather see President Bush just serve out his term that deal with even ONE day with a President Dick Cheney.

*shudders*