I’m ba-a-a-ack! Just in time for impeachment.
Thanks to all of you who kept visiting during my overlong absence from this journal. My attention has been diverted by necessary work and wholly unnecessary illness. I’ve never had bronchitis before and I have learned something from the experience. I never want to have bronchitis again. If dying in any way resembles the experience I have just endured, I will skip that step. Enough about me.
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As former Buncombe County Dem party chair Max Haner observed at the 11th Congressional District (NC) convention a couple of weeks back, it doesn’t matter a whit if George Bush is convicted of the crimes he has committed, but it matters tremendously that he be called to account. We need to prevent him and his minion from ever being able to portray his presidency as anything less than a corrupt catastrophe. Impeachment will darken his image for as long as there are humans to record history.
Now the bravest and most forthright congressional representative in the country has stepped forward and submitted articles of impeachment. Dennis Kucinich has laid out the case in 35 articles which pretty well cover the worst of Bush’s abuses of power and the constitution.
To those who argue that impeachment will be a distraction, it should be pointed out that in every case in which articles of impeachment against a president have been approved in U.S. history, the opposite party has won the ensuing election. Conviction by the Senate does not figure in that record. (Clinton, is the most recent example.)
It will also put John McCain in the position of either having to endorse the effort or defend Bush.
And it is an excellent opportunity to hold Democratic feet to the fire. We elected a majority congress in 2006 and they have dithered and fretted while Bush continues to push for war with Iran. It is long past time for the Dems to throw down the gauntlet and end this administration’s criminal escapade.
If you missed the link in the post, click here to read the articles.
Impeachment is restoration of rule of law and the Constitution.
The issue is the Constitution and Bill of Rights, not Bush or Cheney.
The citizens of the USA must go to the streets to restore the rule of law by demanding impeachment.
Passive expectation of action by Congress, media, law enforcement will not restore the Constitution and rule of law.
Act now.