I also sent this to Diane Feinstein. You can find your congressperson at http://www.house.gov/writerep; senators can be found at http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm.

Dear Senator Boxer,

Impeach Bush and Cheney NOW.

NOW. NOW. NOW.

I'm sick of the lies, the incompetence, the cynicism, the violence.

They jail people without trial. They torture people. They lied about WMD's. They broke the law to spy on Americans. They handed obscene windfall profits to the oil and pharmaceutical companies. They have ignored the plainest evidence that the icecaps are melting. They whistled while New Orleans died.

Our ports are undefended, our energy prices are soaring, Islamic theocracies are building nuclear bombs, Iraq is dissolving in a chaos of blood and flame.

These people have grotesquely twisted ideas of governance. All they care about is money and power, and to hell with the ordinary people of America.

I'm sick of it. I'm so sick of it. I want to see Bush and Cheney impeached. Then I want to see them put on trial for war crimes and violating the Constitution. I want to see them taken away to jail in leg irons.

Then, maybe, we can have our beloved country back, with its values of decency, generosity, democracy, and honor.

Impeach NOW.

Not next year, not next month. NOW.

NOW. NOW. NOW. NOW. NOW. NOW.

Sadly, there's little humourous left to say about the Bush administration, unless you find energetic venality, mind-numbing ignorance and the promulgation of bone shatter violence to be cause for a few belly laughs every now and again. Kudos to Garrison Keillor for recognizing that, and writing accordingly.

Impeach Bush and send his cronies to jail? Absolutely. Any sane democracy would jump at the opportunity to prosecute such criminals and incompetents. But first, we'll need to vote out of office all those -- Democrats too -- who believe that truth telling and leadership based on constitutionality has become irrelevant to "real" politics.

When did we stoop so low as to expect our politicians to merely be subject to the laws of the land. They are supposed to UPHOLD our laws through the rigorous application of probity, intelligence and ethics. Something none of them appear willing to do these days. As pathetic a little man as he is, George Bush is only symptom, not disease.

On the off chance that any shards of a participatory, Constutional democracy have survived the past five years of the disastrous Bush Administration. the immediate impeachment of the President, the Vice-President and their respective staff, and all Cabinet appointees would never be as disruptive as the present state of affairs - both domestically and internationally; nor as "scandalous" as the multitude of nefarious activities that proliferate the Executive branch today, disingenuously removed from legal,public scrutiny by the expoitation of "executive privilege" and exacerbated by the myth of "wartime powers" accorded to an imaginary "wartime president"(Mission Accomplished).

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. WE MUST DISENTHRALL OURSELVES, and then we shall save our country." (Abraham Lincoln's Annual Address to Congress; December 1, 1862)

Following the impeachment must come the indictment. Bush, Cheney and their minions have committed dozens if not hundreds if not thousands of crimes. Crimes that could finally be properly investigated once they are removed from the seats of power.

Each warrantless wiretap, for example, carries with it punishment of up to 5 years in prison and a $30,000.00 fine. How many taps have there been - thousands? The fines alone could allow the government to recoup millions from Bush & Cheney. Cheney's Halliburton options are now worth more than $8 million (they weree worth $250 thousand before the Iraq invasion). Cheney has personally profited to the tune of about $4,000.00 per dead GI. Halliburton was teetering on bankruptcy before they got $9 Billion in no-bid contracts the government pays whether or not Halliburton performs.

Impeach; indict, convict; imprison.

Our country was not made, or made great, by YES-MEN!

Garrison rightly & pointedly shows WHY real patriots

question the awfully, criminally wrong things that have

been happening recently.

Is this the USA we thought it was, or hoped it would be?

That's WHY we need to seriously consider what Garrison says,

and urge action. now.

The House impeaches, the Senate conducts the trial. Therefore, tell your congressperson to impeach and tell your senators to convict. Don't forget to write your congressperson! Use email.

I applaud Garrison for writing this article. Say it again!

I agree with the comment that removing Bush and Cheney would leave us with Hastert (or someone equally untrustworthy) and therefore we must wait until after the midterm election when, hopefully, the Democrats take back Congress.

I have to admit, though, that it's a real gamble whether the Democrats will stiffen their spines in time.

...what would it REALLY take for this man to be impeached? I do wonder. And they called Ronald Reagan the "Teflon president."

The world would watch as America finally "got it".

Bush is unique in that he encompasses incompetence, incuriosity and destructiveness while in charge of the most powerful military the world has ever seen.

If I believed in the Revelations of St John the Divine, I'd have to say he's the Anti-Christ.

The world is waiting.

We have to do something.

To get this done, we need to get the House of Representatives to pass articles of impeachment. Impeachment has been initiated 62 times since 1789. Impeachment of officials in the executive branch can occur when they are suspected of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Surely betrayal of the oath of office constitutes treason, or at least a high crime.

The Presidential oath of office, as specified by the Constitution:

I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The current President is not doing this. He is actively undermining the Constitution of the United States by appropriating to himself powers not allowed the President in the Constitution.

This certainly requires impeachment be initiated, if only to allow the American people to see where their representatives fall on this question, and to demonstrate the House’s awareness of the seriousness of the issue. If impeachment occurs, then we are freed from a criminal leading the land; if not, the elected representatives have spoken. Not to do this is negligence.

He argues that the President’s decision to do a thing makes the thing legal. This is clearly wrong. If the President decides to murder, then he is not doing a legal thing; if he decided to sell secrets to another country, then he is not doing a legal thing. The very ability to impeach a president implies the possibility that a president can do illegal things, including “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”

The wiretapping issue was resolved in the ’70s, when another president claimed that if the president chose to do a thing, that thing was legal. Congress said it was not. The fact that Bush is asking for these powers after a large public debate on the issue, decided by representatives of the people, shows his contempt for the oath he swore.

Note: if you saw this on my blog, forgive the repetition; I thought this was worth repeating in a place more people would hear it. If we all speak out, online and in person, we stand a better chance at effecting a sea change in the popular mindset.