Letter: If he was not elected, can Bush be impeached?

Monday, Nov. 10, 2003 | 8:45 a.m.

In the past week or so I have seen on TV news as well as in newspaper photographs irate citizens demonstrating for the impeachment of President Bush. This development started me wondering if the voters can even force an impeachment.

Bush was not elected by the voters. The U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount and declared Bush the winner -- in effect appointing him to the presidency. Now, if the Supreme Court placed him in that spot, do the people still have the right to remove him?

I also was wondering whether it will take a Constitutional Convention to remove from presidential powers the lifetime appointment of these Supreme Court justices.

If any of your readers have any answers I would appreciate reading them.

LARRY PHILLIPS

inton progress

t. 22 letter from Max Heeman was the same as his to Mr. Eisner's letter -- I laughed. The part about Republicans cleaning up the messes left by the Democrats was really funny. The only thing they cleaned up was the big pile of surplus money left to them by President Clinton.

nton did nothing about terrorism, when in fact he started his presidency by confronting it. When the World Trade Center was bombed by terrorists on Feb. 16, 1993, President Clinton had been in office 38 days. That means the planning for this took place on President George H.W. Bush's watch. Instead of playing the blame game like Republicans do so well, Bill Clinton went after those responsible and today they are behind bars.

s who turned down President Clinton's request for more anti-terrorism funding and who rejected his proposed expansion of the intelligence agencies' wiretap authority in order to combat terrorism.

eight years to clean up after the Reagan/Bush years. It's taken President George W. Bush only three years to undo all of the good things Clinton did. I pity the person who inherits the gigantic mess this president will leave behind.

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to the FBI's use of the Patriot Act in the ongoing local political corruption case. Attorney General John Ashcroft has told us that the Patriot Act will violate some citizens' civil liberties but that this is necessary to protect us from terrorism.

e this act in a nonterrorist-related case is a warning to where this bad legislation is heading.

your family -- register and vote.