Don't Waste Time on Impeachment
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Categories: Civil Liberties / Privacy, Peace & Social Justice, Foreign Policy & Security, Effective & Ethical Government, Electoral Reform, Separation of Powers / Federalism
Categories: Civil Liberties / Privacy, Peace & Social Justice, Foreign Policy & Security, Effective & Ethical Government, Electoral Reform, Separation of Powers / Federalism
In a sense, all the votes that have recently been taken in the Senate on the Iraq war have been test votes about impeachment of Bush. The most important fact to remember is that while the House can impeach, it is the Senate that convicts, and it takes a 2/3 majority vote to do so. The votes on cloture of debate on Iraq funding, requiriing 60 votes to pass, were not even close. IMHO, the main reason the Republicans are still supporting Bush despite his obvious destructive impact on their election prospects, is to not send a signal to the Dems that impeachment might succeed.
So what is to be done? We have to elect a hell of a lot more Dems to the Senate in 2008, not to impeach Bush-Cheney, because that will be too late, but to allow for impeachment of some of those nut-case judges that he has appointed. The long shadow of the Bush regime will linger in the federal judiciary, and they need to be cleaned out if the country is to be saved from the kind of fate that the decisions of idealogical judges played in the Weimar Republic.
So what is to be done? We have to elect a hell of a lot more Dems to the Senate in 2008, not to impeach Bush-Cheney, because that will be too late, but to allow for impeachment of some of those nut-case judges that he has appointed. The long shadow of the Bush regime will linger in the federal judiciary, and they need to be cleaned out if the country is to be saved from the kind of fate that the decisions of idealogical judges played in the Weimar Republic.
The House Democrats have it within their power NOW to Impeach Gonzales, Cheney or Bush with the simple majority they now hold.
Nixon resigned because he was "going to be Impeached, not because he was". The Dems just need to show the voters and Bush some spunk.
All votes recently taken had more to do with Democrats choosing to try to coast into the Presidency by choosing to Ignore the fact that 3,600 US Soldiers have died and 30,000 +/- have suffered life changing wounds because of Cheney's lies about WMD and other whoppers.
Democrats are choosing to accept a few thousand more dead US Soldiers as the price of their easy assent into the presidency.
Democrats are choosing to accept the worst power grab by any administration in US history as the price of their easy assent into the presidency.
Democrats are in fact risking the attainment of that power.
Voters wanted the Iraq War Stopped and the excesses of the Bush Administration stopped.
I think that if Democrats ignore the wishes of the voters about Impeachment and the War they are in for a big disappointment on Election Day in 2008.
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