Video (5min 33sec): Why is Impeachment Important? Congressman Robert Wexler continues fight for impeachment begun by Dennis Kucinich. "Should President Bush or Vice-President Cheney be tried on Impeachment? This is a question that democrats are struggling to answer.
David Swanson of ImpeachCheney.org: "It's not 'legal'. It's 'political'. And it doesn't have to be a crime, but it can be. And I say that not wanting to trivialize impeachment or degrade it in the way that it was during the Clinton Administration. But the definition in the Constitution is 'treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors' which is an old British phrase intended to be broad and encompassing of any major abuses of power. So, you shoot your hunting buddy in the face it's not impeachable. You cheat on your taxes which came you with Nixon, that's not impeachable. That's something you or I could do. It's a crime, but it's not impeachable.
"But, you lie to the public about important matters of state, it's not a crime, but it is an impeachable offense. Now with Bush and Cheney we have a laundry list of crimes, of felonies, some of them openly confessed to such as violating FISA. Many of them are impeachable offenses..."
