If the Democrats Are Smart: How to Impeach
Posted: January 9th, 2007, 11:06 am
from Lew Rockwell.com
Lets leave aside, for a moment, the question so glibly begged in this author's headline.
This article, from a self-proclaimed conservative, outlines the reasons for and the details of impeachment procedings (official and otherwise) most likely to succeed in America's current atmosphere of anguish, suspicion, doubts and self-interest.
The author concludes that, while it would be easier for the Democrats to screw up even the most straightforward and justified legal attacks against our CEO, there still exists the easy possibility of success.
What this article doesnt take into account, however, are the unforeseens of future military and political strategy as engineered by the Administration in the hopes of preventing such a straightforward and justifed endeavor. Bush's apparent shortsightedness in Iraq is similar to this kind of shortsightedness on the part of the Lets Go Impeach Bush! crowd. If we only look at the past, this plan works, but the Democrats will not only have to be smart enough and brave enough to deal with today's realities in challenging the Administration legally, but they will also have to be smart enough and brave enough to plan for the obvious counter-intelligence from the White House, designed to stave off impeachment proceedings long enough to secure a Republican victory in 2008.
If this is a race to see who can be smarter between now and 2008, I worry that the finish line is going to be a huge pile of razor blades designed by our commercial interests (the only entity in America, seemingly, with any fucking brains, in an Evil Genius kind of way) and disguised as beautiful autumn leaves. Who will jump first? It's anyone's guess. But one thing is for sure — whoever jumps from the political world will have their fair share of cowardly and braindead civilians jumping in right behind them.
And the bloodshed moves ever closer to our American streets, only not in the way we've been told.
That the Bush Administration has committed impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors" is beyond the doubt of any reasonable person who has taken the most casual look into the evidence. Bush and his minions have boldly falsified evidence to Congress (regarding the Iraq war) and routinely violated the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment (with its wire-tapping programs), Fifth and Sixth Amendments (denying trials to detainees, some of whom are American citizens), and the Eighth Amendment (with torture).
George Bush and other senior members of his administration should be impeached for their many crimes against the U.S. Constitution. But where should Congress begin?
I believe Congress should investigate all of these avenues, but that an impeachment inquiry should be narrowly focused upon the torture and trial aspects of Bush’s high crimes.
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Lets leave aside, for a moment, the question so glibly begged in this author's headline.
This article, from a self-proclaimed conservative, outlines the reasons for and the details of impeachment procedings (official and otherwise) most likely to succeed in America's current atmosphere of anguish, suspicion, doubts and self-interest.
The author concludes that, while it would be easier for the Democrats to screw up even the most straightforward and justified legal attacks against our CEO, there still exists the easy possibility of success.
What this article doesnt take into account, however, are the unforeseens of future military and political strategy as engineered by the Administration in the hopes of preventing such a straightforward and justifed endeavor. Bush's apparent shortsightedness in Iraq is similar to this kind of shortsightedness on the part of the Lets Go Impeach Bush! crowd. If we only look at the past, this plan works, but the Democrats will not only have to be smart enough and brave enough to deal with today's realities in challenging the Administration legally, but they will also have to be smart enough and brave enough to plan for the obvious counter-intelligence from the White House, designed to stave off impeachment proceedings long enough to secure a Republican victory in 2008.
If this is a race to see who can be smarter between now and 2008, I worry that the finish line is going to be a huge pile of razor blades designed by our commercial interests (the only entity in America, seemingly, with any fucking brains, in an Evil Genius kind of way) and disguised as beautiful autumn leaves. Who will jump first? It's anyone's guess. But one thing is for sure — whoever jumps from the political world will have their fair share of cowardly and braindead civilians jumping in right behind them.
And the bloodshed moves ever closer to our American streets, only not in the way we've been told.
That the Bush Administration has committed impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors" is beyond the doubt of any reasonable person who has taken the most casual look into the evidence. Bush and his minions have boldly falsified evidence to Congress (regarding the Iraq war) and routinely violated the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment (with its wire-tapping programs), Fifth and Sixth Amendments (denying trials to detainees, some of whom are American citizens), and the Eighth Amendment (with torture).
George Bush and other senior members of his administration should be impeached for their many crimes against the U.S. Constitution. But where should Congress begin?
I believe Congress should investigate all of these avenues, but that an impeachment inquiry should be narrowly focused upon the torture and trial aspects of Bush’s high crimes.
Newsvine Article of Same Name
