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freespeechzone where I found This. Apparently the New Mexico State Senate has drafted and voted on a resolution which they sent to US Congress to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney regarding their policy on Iraq and the illegal wire-tapping and spying on Americans amongst other things. Ahhh. Interesting. And yes, the state legislatures can do that. It's been a while, but if memory serves, the States can check the Federal Government's policies. This fascinates me. None of the States have done this sort of thing since the Civil War and it's coming from the state of New Mexico. Here's the The full text of the resoultion. Whether you are a Bush fan or not a Bush fan or just ambivalent, this is fascinating from a historical perspective. I'm not sure if a State Legislature has done this before? And according to the article, New Mexico isn't the only State Legislature doing this or considering it.
freespeechzone where I found This. Apparently the New Mexico State Senate has drafted and voted on a resolution which they sent to US Congress to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney regarding their policy on Iraq and the illegal wire-tapping and spying on Americans amongst other things. Ahhh. Interesting. And yes, the state legislatures can do that. It's been a while, but if memory serves, the States can check the Federal Government's policies. This fascinates me. None of the States have done this sort of thing since the Civil War and it's coming from the state of New Mexico. Here's the The full text of the resoultion. Whether you are a Bush fan or not a Bush fan or just ambivalent, this is fascinating from a historical perspective. I'm not sure if a State Legislature has done this before? And according to the article, New Mexico isn't the only State Legislature doing this or considering it.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-01-26 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-26 12:48 am (UTC)There's another article at freezone about Chuck Hagel - I think that's his name, a populist and conservative Republican Sentator with a potential bid for Prez, whose risking it all to oppose the President's plan to increase troops to Iraq. He states that his vote in support of the resolution that supported the War in Iraq specifically stated that it only supported the War after all other options were exhausted and that the Prez decided he didn't need Congress' approval and went ahead and did it anyway. That the original resolution that the Prez wanted would give Congressional approval for the US to invade any country. Chuck, and three other senators re-wrote it so that it said just Iraq, and only after all options were exhausted.