Letters to the Editor
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I am above the law!
Tim, by pointing out Bush's inability to follow the law, I only have one question to ask: Why do you hate America so much?
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So now that they've figured that out...
What are they going to do about it?
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Let's consider "Article 2" from Nixon's impeachment
The preamble to Article 2 from Nixon's 1974 impeachment proceedings is appropriate reading right now -- just consider how eerily easy it would be to replace "Richard M. Nixon" with "George W. Bush":
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Article 2
Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.
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re: Impeachment
do you ever wonder if the Republicans impeached Clinton in such an unpopular way just to make the option of impeachment politically inviable?
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Signing statements and the Constitution
Senator Byrd is correct; for those of you who would like the applicable citation from the Constitution here it is:
Article I Section 7
"Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it."
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Blah, blah, blah, blah
Sen. Byrd, it's wonderful that you're so up in arms. But as other LWs have implied, so effing what? Unless Congress grows the wrinklies to finally impeach the worst president in the history of this nation (as well as Darth Cheney), it means nothing. Zero. If we don't hold our leaders accountable for their crimes, we've had it.
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Bush invalidates his own argument.
The main example cited here, the border patrol issue, could have been made to work in the President's favor. If he had issued his grossly unconstitutional signing statement under the pretense of preserving the Border Patrol's right to determine when and where to operate checkpoints, he might have something resembling a leg to stand on.
After all, that is what lies at the heart of his "I would rather have decisions made by the generals on the ground [who are terrified of retribtution, politcal blackmail, and career assassination should they speak honestly] then by politicians 3000 miles away in Washington DC" logic for the Iraq war.
Instead the idiot child-emperor starts waving his hubris around like a drunken fratboy demonstrating the elephant walk. Those Congressional dogs are interfering with HIS ability to control law enforcement! Unscrupulous bastards!
Well, I would love to see his weekly directives to the border patrol letting them know where and when he feels they should be setting up checkpoints. Must be tricky sending those off on his Blackberry while standing at the "front lines" of the war on terror.
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Here's what struck me
While reading this article, here's what I took out of it:
Agencies affected by the signing statements chose to follow the President's [I use that word loosely] signing statements rather than obey the law.
Can we all say BANANA REPUBLIC? Cause we're sliding closer and closer.
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I'm going to start issueing my own signing statements from now on.
The first will have to do with me paying for $3.00 a gallon gas.
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And so the Democrats
need more proof to impeach this asshole? If they don't rein-in this criminal-in-chief I am staying home in 2008. Unfortunately, the way it looks, it won't matter one way or the other...
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Typical
This pseudo dictator or absolute ruler or King George the Turd already made a mockery of the constitution. What else do you expect? Time to get rid of him and his gang before he decides to stay on permanently. 70 % of the people despise him even some repugnicans are finally feeing the light..When do the rest wake up?
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Impeach them, already
Well, hell. If he's not faithfully executing the laws of the land, if, in fact, he's consciously abrogating them, then that's impeachable. The Democrats should push for impeachment, although could/would any Republicans sign onto it? That's the problem -- even as they jockey for some distance from George II, they appear unwilling to actually consider that.
Red State Salonistas, you should start contacting your Congresspeople and Senators and try to get them to say either way what their position is on impeachment -- start putting heat under their feet, forcing them to either embrace Bush's illegality (and to fry with him in 2008) or else to actually do the right thing (versus the right-wing thing of giving free passes to authoritarian rule). And Blue Staters should also lean on their Democratic reps and get them on board with it.
It's astounding to me that something as ultimately trivial and politically motivated as Monicagate was impeachable, and what Bush has done is somehow taken as being okay, or business as usual, or whatever. It's politically obscene.
Isn't tyranny in essence making the illegal legal? If Bush gets away with it, then it really is bedtime for democracy; our transformation into a formal (versus actual) democracy/republic will be complete, where we say we're one, but aren't actually one in practice.
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Forget Impeachment, Folks
The simple facts are these:
1. Impeaching Bush is meaningless or even harmful without the concurrent impeachment of Cheney.
2. Eliminating both of them would put Nancy Pelosi in power as the first Madam President of the United States.
3. It would also make Pelosi the first unelected Democratic President in History.
4. There is no way on Earth that the any Republican (including Lieberman) would move forward on such an endeavor.
So let's lost the impeachment talk and let's start building the criminal case against this administration. I want constitutional lawyers working around the clock to ensure that the next president will be able to unseal any and all records from this administration and hand it off to a group of the most intelligent yet vicious seething pitbull prosecutors that can be found.
Aside from that, let us make sure that we mobilize a strong informed electorate to take to the polls in '08 and but a non sociopath in office so that every last felonious lunatic that has been suckling at the teat of this festering bitch of an administration can be held accountable in full view of the public, the world and history.