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Dean Cool To Impeachment Effort

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By BILLY HOUSE

The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 12, 2008

WASHINGTON - Voters did not hand Democrats control of Congress two years ago in order to impeach President Bush, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday.

Dean was responding to questions about articles of impeachment against Bush introduced this week by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and signed by Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat who sits on the House Judiciary Committee. The House voted to send the articles to the committee, which is not likely to hold hearings on them before the end of Bush's term.

During a breakfast meeting with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Dean said he does not make any judgment about whether the president "may or may not deserve" to be impeached.

But he added: "My view is that the American people hired us in 2006 because they did not like the direction that the country was going in, and what they wanted to see was someone that was willing to do something positive and get something done in Washington that was for their benefit.

"They didn't send us there to impeach the president."

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