Those crazy Vermonters

The Democratic Party in Vermont voted yesterday to urge Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

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 goosestep.

"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.

As if lying, spying and torture are normal. Perhaps they are to the Republicans.