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Impeachment is in the Air: New Polls Show Majority Favors Impeachment
How many full page newspaper ads and radio spots will appear depends entirely on the generous support and contributions from people who believe passionately that impeachment is absolutely critical to maintaining the integrity of the Constitution. Please click here to donate to help the newspaper ads and radio spots run as many times as possible.
The impeachment movement has hit the new year running. If you consider the following facts, it's clear that the issue of impeachment has decisively taken off:
1) The People's Impeachment Lobby is a huge success. Members of Congress received more than 70,000 letters urging impeachment.
2) A new Zogby poll will be released tomorrow showing that by a 52% to 43% margin, Americans believe that Congress should consider impeaching George W. Bush if he wiretapped the people of this country without court approval (and everyone knows and Bush has admitted that he ordered just such huge secret spying operation.) The poll, with a plus or minus margin of error of 2.9%, shows that 66% of Democrats, 59% of independents, and 23% of Republicans support impeachment for wiretapping. Majorities favored impeachment across the country: the East (54%), South (53%), and West (52%), Central states (50%). The significance of this poll can be seen by way of comparison with public attitudes in the months before the impeachment of Clinton. In August and September 1998, sixteen major polls found that only 36% supported hearings to impeach Clinton.
3) Even Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Arlen Specter, who will be convening hearings next month on Bush?s authorization of secret electronic surveillance of Americans, said that if lawmakers find Bush violated the law regarding wiretapping (remember Richard Nixon here), then ?impeachment is a remedy. After impeachment you could have a criminal prosecution."
4) There are now eight members of Congress including John Conyers, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, who have put their name to a bill calling for a special committee to investigate impeachable crimes by the Bush Administration.
5) Newspaper Ads in the New York Times and other papers will be published again, as well as radio spots in the next few weeks, coinciding with the Bush State of the Union Address and the Congressional hearings on Bush?s illegal wiretapping operation. These ads have reached hundreds of thousands of people and we are planning to run more in the next few weeks. Please help with your contribution.
How many full page newspaper ads and radio spots will appear depends entirely on the generous support and contributions from people who believe passionately that impeachment is absolutely critical to maintaining the integrity of the Constitution.
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