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Originally Posted by host
It is they who are on the fringe, in a reality based political universe, but they have the microphone, as they did in 1998.
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The best way to take that microphone back, IMO, is through a deliberative process that can be justified to the American people as in the interest of the Constitution and not partisanship.
I dont believe a fast-track impeachment inquiry in an election year would be perceived by the public as fitting that criteria.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
personally why dc may find it to be a slap in the face of the Constitution, I don't find it as such. Sure if you'd like to fish about, by all means, but I'm not interested in spinning wheels to appease the Constitution. If it was not supposed to happen, then one of the other branches should have stopped it.
I'd like more energy and time devoted to getting the economy back on track, settling the gas crisis, the mortgage crisis, and the rest.
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I agree that the Republican Congress that was in the majority for six years should have done more to examine the practices of the executive branch in order to "appease the Constitution" (I would prefer to characterize it as respecting the system of checks and balances/separation of powers). They clearly abrogated that responsibility. And in the last 1-1/2 years, the WH has effectively stalled every attempt at such oversight by the 110th Congress.
There is no reason why Obama and a Dem Congress cant muti-task and do both....per my
post #144.
I think if it were framed and presented to the American people correctly, it would receive widespread support.