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Edited on Sun Jun-25-06 02:40 PM by pat_k
The question is not "cutting and running or not?"
The question that Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Co. most fear is "To Impeach, or Not Impeach?"
And there is only ONE answer to that question that is consistent with morality and principle.
Like a battered spouse, we are so focused on what our abusers are thinking, feeling, might do next, figuring out how we should defend ourselves, that we are incapable of taking any steps that allow us to escape.
When we stop pussy-footing around and go after them, no holds barred, and demand Impeachment, we are doing what we must to defend our constitutional democracy, we are accusing them of REAL crimes, and we are ignoring them and their threats of "backlash" and their bogus accusations ("cut and run" just being the latest).
You can't win if you don't take the fight to them.
Each and every violation comes back to their treasonous claim to the right to exercise absolute power.
For every abuse, national and international, they have sought cover in their so-called "theory" of urinary(1) authoritarian executive power; the fascist fantasy that as long as they claim they are acting to "defend" us, they can usurp our collective sovereignty, violate our laws, commit international crime in our name, and destroy our institutions to serve themselves.
Every time Bush, Cheney, or their minions invoke urinary authoritarian power as their get out of jail free card, they declare themselves traitors. This high crime subsumes all others. It is all we need to force them from power tomorrow.
Their many immoral atrocities -- torture Gulags, terroristic threats of Mushroom Clouds,(2) criminal war of aggression, massive program of spying on us without warrant or legitimate authorization, on and on -- are the proofs that they recognize NO limits on their power.
Despots who claim absolute power use it. Impeachment is not just a means to hold them accountable for nuking the constitution with their claim to dictatorial power, it is the ONLY way we can protect ourselves against future atrocities.
We know all we need to know to impeach and remove right now. Comprehensive investigation and congressional hearings of the specific crimes (those that have been exposed and those that as yet remain secret) can follow.
Given the gravity and urgency, members of Congress have a sworn duty to do whatever they must to see that Bush and Cheney are forced to resign, or Impeached and removed.
Their duty is self-evident, and yet they fail to act.
Some of them are immobilized by the denial and rationalizations that pervades their insular DC world; some are ignorant of their duty; others are in cahoots with the bushcheney regime. But, whatever may be behind a particular member's failure, it is up to us to challenge them and make their inescapable duty to clear to them.
They are just people. Confronting them and chipping away at their rationalizations does not require great numbers, but it does require us to do more than write letters, call, or march.
To be effective, we must enter their world, seek meetings, engage them (and senior staff) in dialog, challenge their rationalizations, and hold them to their oath.
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(1) The right to piss on the constitution.
(2) They TERRORIZED the American people with the most colossal bomb threat in history (mushroom clouds in 45 minutes). "They terrorized us" is something I'd like to see forced into the echo chamber. Lying is too tepid a label for their acts, "Cherry picking" a mealy-mouthed nothing. They terrorized us. They committed treason.
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