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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re:  Beat Him or Impeach Him
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 12:00:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 12:00:02 1984
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 > From Mike Kelly ..!ihnp4!tty3b!mjk
 > Given the hijinks of the Reagan Administration, one friend of mine
 > remarked: "We'll probably defeat him in November, but if we don't,
 > we could probably impeach him."  Violation of War Powers Act in
 > Nicaragua and Grenada.  An ongoing FBI investigation into the "business
 > affairs" of Caspar Weinberger and George Schultz when they were head
 > honchos at Bechtel.  An ongoing Congressional investigation into his
 > nominee for Attorney General, Ed Meese.  An ongoing Congressional
 > investigation into his CIA Director, William Casey, for receiving classified
 > information during the 1980 campaign (doesn't it seem that the Republicans
 > can't win the Presidency without cheating; or at least, they think they
 > can't win without cheating)  Practically the entire top management at the
 > EPA forced to resign on charges of perjury and collusion with those the
 > agency was supposedly regulating.  This guy has appointed more petty crooks
 > and con men to high office than any President in recent memory, save one,
 > and he was a Republican, too.

Well Congress could certainly impeach a President at any time.  But, you
would be hard pressed to remove him from office for the offenses cited
above.

 --> War Flowers Act (oops, Powers) - This would almost certainly be
        thrown out by the Supreme Court as an unlawful restraint of
        Executive Power.  Haven't you wondered why Congress hasn't
        been more vocal about trying to hold the President on this?
        Why do you think the compromise on the time table for the
        troops in Lebanon was worked out?  Many Congresspersons
        realize that if push comes to shove, this little ditty will
        be tossed out!

 --> Remove a President from office for the doings of his cabinet ministers
     while in private business!!  Don't make me laugh.  There are always
     ongoing Congressional investigations in these post-Watergate days and
     there will be for some time to come.  Don't expect much to come of
     it.  If the electorate doesn't remove Reagan from office for these
     *offenses*, then don't expect Congress to do it.  It won't happen.

Starting to get a little worried, eh Mike??

--> Allen <--
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