Robert Greenwald: Let's Start Using the "I" word -- Impeach (from HuffPost)

[marmar]

Robert Greenwald

05.21.2007
Let's Start Using the "I" word -- Impeach (31 comments )

The Gonzales hearings have made plain for all to see that the highest law enforcement officer in the land is unwilling to tell the truth under oath. He doesn't recall, or he doesn't know, or he answers questions with questions, evading the issues. He can't remember his own name, his job title, details of meetings or decisions or strategies.

And yet, he has not been fired. He continues to do damage to our country.
It's all there on TV for everyone to see, although few have the time or patience to see it. That's why we at Brave New Films have produced a 2-minute video (with an assist from George Bush) to boil the story down to its essence.

Let's not be shy. Let's get the "I" word -- IMPEACHMENT -- out there loud and clear. Say it, SHOUT it -- it has a good patriotic feel to it. And yes, in fact, the attorney general CAN be impeached. It is legal, it is proper, it is time.

Here is your ammunition for impeachment -- a video, a petition, a whole campaign to get the House Judiciary Committee to launch this action, NOW. We and our friends and partners at Democracy for America want and need your help.

Don't just be angry, don't just be annoyed, don't yell at the ones you love. IMPEACH GONZALES. ....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald/lets-start-using-the-i_b_48967.html

[barb162]

1. Hasn't the I word been used for about 6 plus years now?

Or possibly even before the first shrubster inauguration? What am I missin' here?

[pat_k]

2. It's been taboo on the Hill -- a taboo that is breaking down.

Nancy "off the table" Pelosi has been abusing the power we gave her to suppress any member of the Democratic caucus willing to stand up and champion impeachment. Within the beltway establishment, even uttering the word has been taboo. Over and over they've been spouting nonsense like "the only thing we can do is cut the funding." Impeachment has been relegated to the realm of the impossible -- something that can't/won't/shouldn't happen.

There are signs that that is changing. It looks like the stark realities of our national predictament -- realities that ordinary citizens have been shouting for years -- is cracking the wall of groupthink and denial.

[barb162]

4. dupe

[barb162]

5. gottcha n/t

[BonnieJW]

3. We can scream the I word

as long as we can; it doesn't matter. It only matters if congress screams it and acts. Very disappointing group. I had such hopes in November.