Forty-two Percent and Climbing: Impeach the Bastard

In a Zogby poll now available there is some really bad news for Bush, but excellent news for the country and the world.

Days after President Bush’s televised address to the soothe the nation’s anxiety over Iraq, the latest Zogby International released a poll finding that 42 percent say they favor impeachment proceedings if the president is found to have misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq.

That sounds about right. And this news from the red states isn't going to cheer Chimpie up either:

In the Red States, 36 percent say Congress should use it if the president is found to have lied on Iraq, while 55 percent reject this view

Even with whatever bounce Chimpie thinks he'll get from the London bombing, this is got to have the White House working overtime to distract and coverup the crimes of this administration. He's going down, and it's just a matter of how fast it's going to happen. Well, actually, there is a problem.

First, the mainstream media doesn't seem to think that this is news, as Dan Froomkin notes in his blog for the Washington Post:

But you wouldn't know it from following the news. Only three mainstream outlets that I can find made even cursory mention of the poll last week when it came out.

You also wouldn't know it judging from the political discourse in Washington, but that makes a little more sense. After all, impeachment is for all practical purposes a political act, not a legal one. So with a Republican-controlled Congress that doesn't even like to perform basic White House oversight, it's basically a moot point.

And second, as Froomkin notes, a right-wing Congress won't do its duty to the country that is now mired in an illegal war.

Vietnam becomes Vietnow.