Impeach Cheney

[No Exit]

Predictions for 2006

by Alec Baldwin

excerpt:

Thirdly, a Democratic Senate, and its influence on what may also be a diminished Republican majority in the House, will lead to Cheney's impeachment. Many Democratic partisans and common Bush-haters dream of ending his second term prematurely. That will never happen, nor should it. Bush is the puppet of wealthy corporate interests and red-faced Christian conservatives who know the real power lies elsewhere. Besides, keeping Bush in office through the'08 election can only benefit Democrats. Every day Bush is in office pays dividends to his opponents. Bush's incompetence is the gift that keeps on giving. Cheney, however, is truly the dark side of the Force. Nearly every controversy that this administration has created has Cheney's fingerprints on it. Secret energy policy meetings that may have unduly influenced the California governor's race? Cheney. Valerie Plame. a woman and mother who served her country and was maliciously outted in the press by way of that Hack/Weasal Robert Novak? Cheney. Lies about WMD and Iraqi-Al Qaeda links? Cheney. Nearly everywhere you look, you see Cheney directly or, more often, his shadow, ruining peoples lives, stealing their freedoms and liberties and/or destroying whole countries to serve his warped goals of an American foreign policy that seemed dated 25 years ago.

...The seeds of Cheney's impeachment will be sown in 2006. He will be impeached by 2008. And with him and this administration may go the destructive image of America not as global policeman, but as a corrupt policeman. A lawman not interested in the law but in pure power. Not interested in giving aid but in taking just about anything that's not nailed down. Cheney represents a view of American political power that is old. Dead. Finished. And that, once buried, will lead to America beginning to assert its role within a new, cooperative global alignment. Not afraid to use its power, but not obsessed with flaunting it with everyone at every turn. Not a kinder, gentler US. Only a smarter one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/predictions-for-2006_b_12853.html

One very small disagreement: the seeds of Cheney's impeachment will not be sown in 2006. The seeds of Cheney's removal have ALREADY been sown--by Cheney himself. Bigtime.

[MadisonProgressive]

1. Impeach Unca Cheney?? Are you mad???

:spray:

[No Exit]

3. Yes, I'm mad, but I admit that my madness does not signify

genius...Unlike this guy's:

"It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile."

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011183.php

(muffled shriek)

[realFedUp]

2. Did the founding fathers have a plan for whole administrations

removed while knowing that elections could
be rigged? I don't think this was in their Cliff notes.

[No Exit]

4. LOL... good question, and by the way...

here's a crazy idea that sometimes intrudes on my consciousness:

What if.. what if... the 2000 "election" were legally declared invalid, and what if somehow, that meant legally that all official actions of this person Bush since 2001 were rendered null and void?

I mean, I know everyone will say that the U.S. Supreme Court already ruled on the thing, and that that's the end of the line, the final tribunal, etc., and that that meant it was over.

But sometimes such a final action is not the end. Sometimes there is something that lawyers call a collateral attack--a new action, if you will, which can bring something like this back for further review...

[TankLV]

6. That has been my one fervent wish/hope for over five years now.

But I fear time is running out.

[No Exit]

9. Perhaps. Nothing, and I mean nothing, seems to push the pause

button on these evil bastards and their dictatorship-building.

[realFedUp]

7. I am hoping that Texas elections will be null and void

and all House votes will have to be taken over
again, after a new election in Texas.

I like your crazy idea better though. Make them
pay back the surplus too.

[No Exit]

8. Yeah, wouldn't it be great if DeLay's redistricting gambit was

declared illegal?

[Idioteque]

5. Maybe they could just put both names in the articles of impeachment...

...and remove them at once. I don't see anything in the Constitution that says they can't do that.

[ginnyinWI]

10. this is key

"Every day Bush is in office pays dividends to his opponents. Bush's incompetence is the gift that keeps on giving."

No way do we want an incumbent GOP candidate in 2008!

[No Exit]

11. True, though I think Cheney would turn that rule on its head.

I think Cheney as an incumbent would be the single, best, and most obvious argument against voting for him in the subsequent election!

But anyway, okay. Let's just impeach Cheney! That way, we actually GET RID of the bastard! Now, the person Shrubby would appoint as replacement couldn't POSSIBLY be worse than Cheney, because there ISN'T anybody worse than Cheney! And that person would probably share the fate of Ford.