Monday, January 30, 2006

To Impeach or Not to Impeach

More from the Huffington Post this time from Donnie Fowler:

So, it is OK to have an impeachment and trial for a man who lied about sex, but it's not polite to discuss impeachment for lies about war or for deliberate, even arrogant and flagrant, flaunting of laws passed by Congress? Once again, the Mainstream Media and its twin sister Conventional Wisdom are being dragged kicking and screaming into inconvenient conversations about the direction our nation is headed...

(T)he San Francisco Guardian highlights the juxtaposition of a Democratic Party that is hesitant to demand accountability -- "The Democratic leadership is afraid of all the popular positions of the Democratic base" -- with a conservative movement bent on imposing its theory of unquestioned presidential power called the unitary executive -- an "obscure political philosophy" held by Cheney, Scalia, and likely Alito that "essentially holds that the presidency is the dominant branch of government, rather than one of three coequal branches."

The Guardian concludes that "if the public demands accountability and Bush and Cheney refuse to give up their imperial stands, impeachment might not just become an option. It may become the only option."

Things won't be so polite then.

This illustrates two points I have been trying to hammer home. President Clinton's impeachment was 100% partisan and had absolutely nothing to do with the constitution, (something the Republicans are getting very good at ignoring), and the Democrats have absolutely no idea how to get out of their own way. So please contact your elected officials, regardless of political party affiliation and ask them to make the president accountable to them and to the people of the United States.

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