Politics

[shadowkat]

Ooooh I've discovered a cool new lj site - 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.

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[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And one of the sadder things to me was Powell, because it was so clear he was being forced to give the WMD speech, and even then it was clear that he hated what he was saying.