Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. It's time now for us to follow through by asking the rest of Congress to get on board with the American public, and by letting the media know where we stand.

By David Swanson

I have a lot of respect for Joel Wendland, so this article of his ("Impeachment: A Note of Caution") disturbs me. Just after criticizing someone else for making claims without citing sufficient sources, Wendland writes this:

while polls show that voters soundly rebuffed Bush’s war policy and Republican corruption, and are seriously concerned about the administration’s handling of the economy and many social issues, the movement for impeachment has yet to be effectively built. Simple as that.

Simple, huh? So simple that Joel doesn't cite a single poll, not even any of the few that have been done. Had he done so, he would have noticed that by a margin of 51% to 44% according to Newsweek's latest, Americans favor Bush's impeachment as either a high or low priority (it's safe to assume a significantly larger majority favors impeaching Cheney). He would have also seen that just prior to the election surveys showed that Americans expected that if the Democrats won a majority they would impeach - a belief that didn't prevent a Democratic sweep. Of course most polling doesn't, and all exit polling didn't, ask about impeachment at all. But that's far from a "simple" matter, and I know that Joel knows better than to read into that something more than the agenda of the corporations doing the polling. He's right that we have a movement to build, but the evidence for that is to be seen in the streets, not in any polls I know of.

SurveyUSA polled all 50 states on Bush's job approval ratings, and the results are stunning: Bush's favorable ratings exceed 50% in just 6 states (Utah, Idaho, Alabama, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Oklahoma). That's just 21 out of 435 Congressional districts. Bush has plurality support in just 4 more (Montana, Alaska, Kansas, and Texas). Taken together, 40 of the 50 states would be happier without Bush in the White House. Is there any good reason why Congress hasn't begun impeachment proceedings yet?

A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania (a battleground "purple" state) by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com found that 84.9 percent of Democrats said they would be likely to vote for a congressional candidate who "supports having impeachment proceedings against President Bush."  Only 7.0 percent said they were not likely to vote for such a candidate.

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New Zogby Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping

By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12.

Also see Chris Bowers' excellent blog on this at MyDD.
And this terrific analysis from Media Matters.

Rasmussen Reports, whose polls consistently place George Bush's approval rating higher than other polls, published the first poll on impeaching Bush and removing him from office. Rasmussen found that 32% of Americans want President Bush impeached and removed, while 35% want Vice President Dick Cheney impeached and removed.

The MSM pollsters adamantly refuse to ask Americans whether they want to impeach Bush - even though we know a solid majority says yes.

But the pollsters have started asking whether Americans think Bush lied about Iraq, which is the most obvious reason (among many) that Bush should be impeached. I'm tracking the results here: http://www.democrats.com/bush-lied-polls - these are the latest results:

How low can Bush go? Here's the latest from Harris, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal:

The polls are clear: Americans hate Bush and want to get rid of him through impeachment as soon as possible. Here are all of the corporate media polls about Bush:

What Investors Business Daily thinks of our polls.

According to today's NBC/WSJ poll, Americans overwhelmingly believe Bush lied about Iraq. "57% believe he deliberately misled people to make the case for war, compared with 35% who say he gave the most accurate information he had. In addition, 58% are less confident the war will come to a successful conclusion, and 57% say the United States should reduce the number of U.S. troops there."

By Dan Froomkin, WashingtonPost.com

Back in June, Zogby asked Americans if they agreed or disagreed with the following question:

"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."

On Friday, RawStory broke the news about the netroots-funded Zogby poll:

Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considering impeachment

By Dave Lindorff,
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

An astonishing 53 percent of Americans in a new poll released by Zogby International now support impeachment of President George W. Bush if it can be shown that he lied to get the US into a war with Iraq.