Friday, July 13, 2007

Impeachment

Is not the Constitutional crisis, it is a cure for the Constitutional crisis.

Updated 7/14 and edited: The link now has Bill Moyer's PBS journal on impeachment, watch it there. Skippy at skippy the bush kangaroo has some YouTube sections.
TOUGH TALK ON IMPEACHMENT
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk of impeachment with Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT
Both these men were saying that impeachment is necessary to prevent the contamination from the actions of Bush and Cheney spreading to the next president. It's not just these two lawless men and their administration, it is that we stand to lose everything to the next person in power, whoever it may be. Those who hold power will not willingly give it up.

Impeachment is the cure.

Impeach Bush and Cheney for the sake of the Constitution.

Update 7/14: Here is John Nichols in an opinion piece for The Nation via Yahoo News:
The Nation -- Four more members of the U.S. House signed on this week as cosponsors of H. Res. 333, the measure that outlines articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney for actively and systematically seeking to deceive citizens and Congress about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda and for openly threatening aggression against Iran.

Congressman Bob Filner, the chair of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, added his name, along with another veteran Democratic representative from California, Sam Farr.

The additional cosponsorships from Washington Democrat Jim McDermott, a Vietnam-era veteran who has been one of the House's sharpest critics of the war in Iraq, and Virginia Democrat James Moran bring the number of supporters for the articles to 14, including sponsor Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.

House Members are backing impeachment for a number of reasons, including anger with Cheney's involvement with manipulations of intelligence regarding Iraq, illegal spying on Americans and the promotion of torture, as well his recent attempt to avoid scrutiny by claiming that the Office of the Vice President was not part of the executive branch. And then there was President Bush's decision to commute the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff and co-conspirator in moves to punish former Ambassador Joe Wilson for exposing the deceptions that led to war.

Impeach.

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