...news of progressive, impeachment-hungry rumblings within the Democratic Party. Seems a candidate's positions on Iraq and on impeachment are increasingly important to many Democrats. Hey, maybe that's why so many people want "Impeach Bush" and "Impeach Bush & Cheney" t-shirts!
More Democrats Want Their Leaders to Stand up Against Bush, War
By Steven Thomma, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Manchester, NH - Anti-war and anti-Bush fervor is growing among rank and file Democrats, threatening to pull the party to the left and creating a rift between increasingly belligerent activists and the party's leaders in Washington.
Many outside-the-Beltway Democrats want the party to turn forcefully against the war in Iraq and to investigate, censure or even impeach President Bush should the party win control of Congress this fall.
Yet party leaders such as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York have maintained support for the war while criticizing the way Bush handled it, and have shied away from talk of using power to go to after him...
In New Hampshire, the state that will kick off the party's 2008 presidential primary voting, activists gave thunderous ovations this weekend to Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., when he pressed his anti-war agenda, boasted that he alone among potential 2008 presidential candidates opposed the war from the start, and pushed for a censure of Bush. (full article here)
