This just in:

Lawmakers push for Bush impeachment

April 26, 2006

By Darren M. Allen Vermont Press Bureau

MONTPELIER — More than a dozen lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for President Bush's impeachment, making the Vermont Legislature the second in the nation to consider such a move. [ed. note: California actually came in second]

Introduced by Rep. David Zuckerman, P-Burlington, and signed by 12 other Democrats, Progressives and the body's lone independent, the resolution requests that Congress "initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush" under an obscure set of rules that allows state legislatures to directly seek such an action.

It comes a little more than two weeks after the Vermont Democratic Party decided to write a letter to Congress seeking impeachment, and a day after a similar resolution was introduced in the Illinois Legislature.

"George W. Bush has committed high crimes and misdemeanors as he has repeatedly and intentionally violated the United States Constitution and other laws of the United States," Zuckerman's resolution said.

Thanks, Rep. Zuckerman! And thanks, Vermont, for taking this national in the first place!