Newsweek Poll Shows New Democratic Congress Will Have a 51% Mandate to Impeach Bush

Buried (and dismissed) in the Newsweek article "Are the Faithful Losing Faith?" comes the news that 51% of Americans now favor IMPEACHING Bush as a top priority! (47% of Dems and 5% of Repubs) Wonkette points out that by Bush's own twisted fruitcake logic, 51% is a MANDATE!

...Other parts of a potential Democratic agenda receive less support, especially calls to impeach Bush: 47 percent of Democrats say that should be a “top priority,” but only 28 percent of all Americans say it should be, 23 percent say it should be a lower priority and nearly half, 44 percent, say it should not be done. (Five percent of Republicans say it should be a top priority and 15 percent of Republicans say it should be a lower priority; 78 percent oppose impeachment.)...

Impeach Bush NOW! and support pro-impeachment candidates... The rest of the article points out issue after issue where Americans now support a Democratic agenda. There's also over ONE MILLION Americans who get to vote for impeachment ballot issues this yr. The Nation Mag's John Nichols explains...

Voting for Impeachment From Vermont to Illinois to California, voters this fall will be deciding the fate not just of candidates for Congress but of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Communities that are home to more than 1 million Americans will have an opportunity to cast ballots on the question of whether Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the president and vice president. Only the U.S. House of Representatives can impeach a member of the executive branch, and only the Senate can convict the targeted official and remove him from office. But the founders always intended for citizens to have a voice in the process. Thomas Jefferson, who argued that power must ultimately rest in the people, as they alone are the surest defenders of the republic and its democratic aspirations, observed, "It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so." Duly troubled by a president and vice president who have launched wars without congressional declarations, who have spied without warrants, who have disregarded and disdained the Constitution, citizens across the country have put themselves to the task of preserving self-government by raising the call for impeachment. Dozens of communities have considered resolutions calling on Congress to act, and this fall's referendums will raise the volume....