Letters to the Editor
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Impeach Bush or wait for Tecumseh to do it
There is a folk "curse" on the Zero Year presidencies which goes back to the War of 1812 when Harrison's troops first defeated those of the Shawnee warchief -- Tecumseh, at Tippecanoe --
Harrison, elected in 1840, was the first zero year president so felled -- followed by Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Hardy, Roosevelt, Kennedy ... Reagan's escaped for arcane reasons -- and the current Zero Year presidency -- HRH Dubya has yet to complete his second term.
It's been a bumpy ride.
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Borrrrriiiinnnnng
Somebody, please tell me why Salon and so many other media outlets are wasting so much space and time publishing articles that say sure there is cause to impeach Bush, but - gasp - not the political will.
Really?
Please put a little bit more time and work in and find some way to push the issue or discuss it that doesn't repeat over and over the above. Enough already.
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Bush's impeachable offense
The impeachments will take some time to develop and will include a number of folks in the administration.
They've been working very closely together to create this situation, to game our system and sieze control; lying to foolishly take us, against our wishes and interests, into deadly war. A war that proves to be very profitable for those properly connected and accurately forewarned as disasterous by most. Conspiricy to commit treason is the crime. Their lame excuses are the coverup. All the branches of our government have been corrupted by this slow and insidious takeover, a sad and terrifying fact demonstrated by the supreme court's behavior in the 2000 election. The real trick will be wresting our country back from the Blueman. The larger story will devastate the Republician Party so heavily implicated in the takeaway. The whales have also cleverly purchased most of the press.
Cheney is hip deep in all this, behind his curtians of secrecy. It says a lot about a person who insists on the mythical 'need' to torture people AND complete secrecy for one's own acts. All while having complete access to all the private information of others? Imagine how useful that would be.
This is really all about the culture war. Bush represents cultural victory for a certian subset of America. But he and his followers fail to recognise the culture they are trying so hard to promote is not, in fact, American. He wraps European slavery and religious conquest values in the American flag. He is so confused about the true American values of freedom and diversity, that he regularly attacks them.
True freedom, and the awareness of the responsabilities that go with it, are not native concepts of the old world. In the old world people really like Strong Leaders, this make sense in group vs group competitive economies. New world values (developed with new world religions) are based on concepts of group cooperation, respect for nature, freedom and a sense of responsability.
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Again Poco, your absolute (and by extension, false) assertions are irrelevant
The matter at hand is maintenance of the rule of law, not which politician is or is not more corrupt. These politicians have broken the law. It is time to get rid of them. Should their successors also break the law, then they should be done away with as well. This is not a futile effort, as you seem to imply, but the means by which a democratic governments keeps political corruption in check.
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Impeach Bush!
The president has commited a crime! Impeach him now.
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Bush and FISA
Bush has in FISA, a highly efficient, secret court to approve individual cases of domestic spying. They can approve warrants in a matter of hours. Yet Bush found this insufficient. Why? And why is Bob Graham saying "I [left] with the full sense that we were dealing with a change in technology but not policy"? What if the Bush regime wants to, say, randomly screen calls from the city of Buffalo? What if they're monitoring not specific calls, but all calls? It looks to me like this is exactly what's happening.
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Bush's war on america
Thank you Mr. Bush for saving us and the world from the evil Saddam Husein. I have just one question though, who will save us from you.
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Emptiness of all Real Preventative Value
Dear Salon:
What this recent disclosure about the wiretapping of U.S. Citizens without warrents indicates is how meaningless all of these so-called rights are in actual practice. How impossible it is to stop a president from violating the law before or during-the-fact.
The only thing that prevents a president from breaking the law is his own respect for it. There are no enforcement mechanisms and there are no "checks and balances" until it is too late and even then, they are pretty impotent.
If the president is impeached, I will be proven to be wrong and I hope oh-so-much that I am.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur C. Hurwitz
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Bush's Impeachable Offense
What are we waiting for? Let's get the bastard!!!!!! Pass out the torches and pitchforks!
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a larger question of character
The 9/11 mantra has been used in every context imaginable, and some that weren't (at least to me). Now we truly begin to see the long-term effects of fear on our national moral fiber. That our president could admit, while in office, that he knowingly and willfully broke federal law and there be no repercussion is a failure of American values of epic proportion. That this admission comes as a part of what purports to be an effort to protect us from
more terrorist attacks should be no consolation. Our national hubris, our seemingly unfailing ability to profess one thing (America = freedom, justice, etc) and do the opposite (presidental lawbreaking, torture, suspension of habeas corpus and rightful legal representation) should be shaming to us all, regardless of polical stripe. If freedom means that the powerful are free to do as they please without constraint, then this is indeed a free nation. Somehow I doubt that this is the self-evident truth of equality we have held so dear for so long.
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The Impeachment of King George
With all due regard to the Constitutional scholars cited in this excellent article, I believe that the issues are much broader, and reach to every member of Bush's inner circle. To suggest that Bush himself continually reauthorized these illegal "forays" into the private lives of American citizens is clearly factual, but belies the reality that he has acted at the behest of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, et al. The appalling truth is that every single member of his administration must be removed if we are even to begin to see the light of truth.
I am compelled to state, further, that unlike so many clueless, willfully blind citizens of this country, many of us have been speaking out forcefully and repeatedly for years about the utter evisceration of the Constitution under this catastrophic, illegitimate administration. I, for one, wrote to all three of my Congressional representatives two days ago (not, being from AZ, that it will do much good, other than to go on record) demanding a full, transparent investigation the filing of possible articles of impeachment.
When we speak of the "lack of political will", that may refer to the contemptible, largely supine members of Congress, but it certainly does not reflect the ever-growing rage among their constituents. With a few notable, courageous exceptions: Robert Byrd, Russ Feingold, Ted Kennedy,John Conyers, and several others, this Congress has been an abysmal, opportunistic, craven failure and nearly all of them deserve public censure and repudiation. I include many supposedly "liberal" Democrats in that latter category.
We the public have an obligation to speak up, loudly and forcefully and repeatedly, if we are to keep this issue in the forefront. Can we really do less? Our very national heritage is at risk by what is arguably the most corrupt, autocratic administration in our history.