It's time to impeach Bush, Cheney and the public knows it

[Harry Monroe]

It's time to impeach Bush, Cheney and the public knows it

JOHN NICHOLS
GUEST COLUMNIST

Recently the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS devoted a full hour to the subject of impeaching George W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- the first such attention by a national network.

The remarkable thing about the response was not its size or intensity. After visiting more than a dozen states to address the issue, I have come to understand the depth of the public's desire for accountability.

But it was only after Moyers invited conservative legal scholar Bruce Fein and me to lay out not merely the specific grounds for impeachment but the historical rationale for applying the "heroic medicine" -- the Founders' preferred cure for a constitutional crisis -- that I fully understood the extent to which Americans recognize that this is about a lot more than the high crimes and misdemeanors of a regal president and his monarchical vice president.

The stakes are enormous: If Bush and Cheney are not held accountable, this administration will hand off to its successors a toolbox of powers greater than any executive has ever held -- more authority, concentrated in fewer hands, than the Founders could have conceived or would have allowed.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/325316_impeach29.html?source=rss

[williesgirl]

1. k&r

[Dem_Wit]

2. So why do you suppose...

Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat contolled Congress won't impeach him?

Think real hard about this.

I can only come up with two possible reasons:

1. There's nothing to impeach him for.

2. Nancy Pelosi and the rest of her lame duck Dimojerks are nothing but a bunch of worthless hot-air breathing pussies.

Which is it?

[reprobate]

3. Maybe they're still trying to triangulate. A practice that has prooved useless

by most thinkers. But it's likely all they know. It's time for leadership and we have leaders that are removing the most nutritious items from the dining table.