[Sosfbay-discuss] Vermont senate adopts resolution to impeach Bush

[JamBoi]

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2045661020070420
Vermont senate adopts resolution to impeach Bush
Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:02AM EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Vermont state senate passed a symbolic
resolution on Friday calling on the U.S. Congress to impeach U.S.
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney over their
handling of the unpopular Iraq war.

The resolution, passed by a 16 to 9 vote, urges Vermont's
representatives in Washington to introduce a resolution in Congress
requiring the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to start impeachment
proceedings against Bush and Cheney.

Vermont's congressional delegation has shown no serious interest in the
idea, and the new Democratic-controlled Congress has also steered clear
of the subject.

Wisconsin Sen. Russell Feingold's call last year to censure Bush -- a
step short of an impeachment -- found scant support on Capitol Hill,
even among fellow Democrats.
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Vermont, known for its colonial inns, maple sugar, autumn foliage and
century-old dairy farms, has been at the vanguard of a grass-roots
protest movement to impeach Bush.

About 40 Vermont towns passed resolutions at their annual meetings this
year calling for impeachment, putting pressure on state lawmakers to
bring the message to Washington. The state, which was once a republic,
has a history of political independence. Last year it elected Bernie
Saunders, the U.S. Senate's first Democratic Socialist.

But it ranks 49th out of the 50 states in population, with about
623,000 people, according to 2005 Census Bureau estimates.

Bush and Cheney "have exercised the duties of their respective offices
with respect to both domestic and foreign affairs in ways that raise
serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse
of public trust," the resolution said.

A similar version is pending in Vermont's state House Judiciary Committee.

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