They Act Like Children, So Bush and Cheney Need the Boundaries of Impeachment

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http://www.northstarwriters.com/ct073.htm

Candace Talmadge

...In spying on U.S. citizens without a warrant, lying about his reasons for invading Iraq, lying about CIA torture of detainees and lying about the outing of a covert CIA agent working on counter-terrorism, George Bush and Dick Cheney have also violated serious legal boundaries, otherwise known as the laws of this land.

Bush and Cheney have yet to experience any real consequences for their actions, except low poll numbers. For all of their time in office, Congress has been and remains MIA – even with the Democrats in the majority – on real oversight of the executive branch mandated by the U.S. Constitution...

Too bad the feckless current congressional leadership can’t grow a backbone like Ms. Hambledon’s. After calling for impeachment before the 2006 mid-term elections, the Democrats eked out a victory and immediately took impeachment “off the table,” in the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Why? Nothing’s changed. Indeed, it now appears that the Bush administration, in order to bang on its “Iran threat” drums yet again, lied about the nature of an encounter last week in the Straits of Hormuz between U.S. Navy ships and boats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Can we spell G-U-L-F O-F T-O-N-K-I-N?...