[AGL] Democrats with Balls

[Harry Edwards]

  Vermont Democrats Back Bush Impeachment
Sat Apr 8, 5:39 PM ET

Leaders of the state Democratic Party voted Saturday to urge Congress 
to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

The vote makes Vermont's Democratic Party committee the fifth to do so, 
following New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin, party 
officials in Vermont said.

Committee member Margaret Lucenti said the president had misled the 
country into war, conducted illegal electronic spying on Americans and 
violated international torture treaties.

"I would hope that any one of these infractions would bring the 
administration down," she said. "We need to restore accountability in 
our federal government."

James Barnett, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, called the 
vote out of step.

"This demonstrates that leaders of the Vermont Democratic Party are 
among the most extreme in the nation to have taken this rather radical 
and highly partisan step," he said.

The committee decided against a proposal to urge impeachment of Vice 
President Dick Cheney.

"Let's keep it crisp," said committee member Billie Gosh. "Let's keep 
it clear. Let's focus on the target."