Spitzer Resigns but We Can't Impeach Bush?

An email from Democrats.com:

Today Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized again to the people of New York for his personal failings and resigned, just 16 months after winning an historic landslide election with 70% of the vote. But Spitzer's resignation was not entirely voluntary, because Republican leaders were busy drafting Articles of Impeachment.

What was Spitzer's impeachable offense? The "lowest" crime in the book.

As we know, the Founding Fathers wanted Impeachment to be used for "High Crimes" like treason, bribery, war crimes, and subverting the Constitution itself. Eliot Spitzer committed no "High Crimes" - but George Bush and Dick Cheney most certainly have, and they continue to do so with absolute impunity.

It's time for Congress to impeach them for it.
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16 months ago, we posted a petition listing 10 High Crimes which justified their impeachment:
(1) Starting a "war of aggression" (2) torture (3) arbitrary detention (4) war crimes (5) warrantless wiretapping (6) signing statements (7) election fraud (8) outing a covert CIA operative (9) the "unitary executive" (10) gross negligence for Katrina and global warming.

Comments

[Gary]

I'm not convinced that soliciting a prostitute should be minimized by calling it a "low" crime. What is worse, negligence after Katrina or the degradation of women? (Hint, there is no right answer to that.) Do we know that Eliot's service provider "Kristen" was not abused by her managers? No, we don't know, which is partly why the managers have already been arrested and Eliot is disgraced.