--Every politician who ever lived, in response to any objection ever raised to anything he ever wanted to do.

The only surprise is that anybody is ever surprised.

1. criminal conduct, proven or alleged;
2. ethical misconduct not prohibited by law;
3. mental or physical disabilities.

Many states have developed non-impeachment rules for the disability issue. Frankly, I would think that category 2 would have some appeal to you, with its expectation that there are codes of conduct in service of the government above and beyond the minimal legalisms.

This comes as no surprise. From AP- The Illinois House has voted to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY'-uh-vich), an unprecedented step in state history. The action sets the stage for......

While I have little doubt that Blagojevich committed crimes, he was impeached for unpopular policies. That’s a decidedly bad precedent.

Perhaps. But there is nothing I love better than liberals fighting other liberals!

With Blago down, we have one more to go: next on the impeachment agenda, the Big Kahuna, B. Hussein Obama!

This is not really true, this man ruled this state by executive edict, and with absolute contempt for the legislature and the people of Illinois, spending billions on pet projects, with no regard for their opinions.
He openly threatened business owners with jail time, should they defy him by following federal law.
His behavior is an embarrassment, even to the most corrupt state system in the union!
Blagojevich is an ego-maniacal jackass who deserves a comeuppance. In other words, a typical Illinois Democrat??[lol]

While impeachment is not a criminal trial and the Illinois House can, in practice, impeach for whatever it wants, the intent was that it be reserved for criminal conduct.

There is no such limitation under the Illinois state constitution—that's the federal constitution.

Blagojevich expanded a health care program without proper authority, that he circumvented hiring laws to give jobs to political allies, that he spent millions of dollars on foreign flu vaccine that he knew wasn’t needed and couldn’t be brought into the country.

Those charges constitute abuse of power. That's the best, the fundamental cause of impeachment.

An impeachment trial is neither a criminal proceedings nor a civil proceedings. It is a political action like an election or a recall. I just wish the Illinois House had done this a while ago.