Mayor Anderson makes the case for impeachment:
Impeachment of the President of the United States is not to be undertaken, as in the case of Andrew Johnson, simply because of partisan disagreements regarding policies or presidential appointments, or, as in the case of Bill Clinton, because of a partisan desire to exploit a personal violation of the law not involving grave breaches of official responsibilities or serious abuses of power. However, impeachment and removal from office, a vital protection against evisceration of the balance of power among the three branches of government and against betrayals of trust and abuses of power injurious to our nation, should be pursued when, as in the case of George W. Bush, a president misleads Congress and the American people in taking our nation to war; authorizes and supports the kidnapping, incarceration without charge, and torture of human beings; demonstrates utter contempt for the rule of law; and blatantly violates fundamental constitutional protections intended to safeguard individuals against governmental abuse.
Read the whole thing. I don’t know why the hell there are so many idiots in Washington DC that don’t understand this. It looks like 2008 is going to be about primaries, primaries, primaries. Fuck it. We’ve got a safe majority in the House and 21 out of the 33 Senate seats that are up are Republican. We aren’t getting any movement on throwing these bastards out of office or on ending this war. Clearly we did not win enough seats in 2006 and we did not have the candidates to do more than chuck Lieberman out of the party. It’s beginning to look like Lieberman is going to have to be just for starters. A little appetizer.
We cannot do anything and we are not safe until we get these people out of office.
We Can’t get anything constructive done now, but I doubt that we will be safe then since Bush has let the genie out of the bottle. Don’t think he is about to go back in any time soon.
haven’t learned shit about fighting the fascists.
I’m watching this pathetic non Iraq non action, and
how the fuck it is possible that the current crop of Dems are so god-awful with message, with strategy, with message and strategy … ?
the ONLY thing going ‘right’ for the Dems is Iraq is still a fucking bloodbath and money pit, and, the fascists still own their fiasco – for how long, however?
I had to vote for the worthless Maria Cantwell last Nov cuz … there is a fascist running against her!
While I’m still irritated that Carter and Mondale didn’t hire the people / figure the game out against that fucking fascist RayGun, at least their flat footedness could be excused … maybe … by the newness of the ruthlessness and the cleverness of the messaging ?? maybe?
well, 1980 was 27 fucking years ago, and 1984 was 23 fucking years ago
and there are so few Dems who are NOT a waste of salary, space, skin and my fucking air.
We enable these losing fucks by constantly pulling the lever for the Cant-Do-Shits and Wont-Do-Shits, all cuz the other guy is a fascist.
is anyone noticing a shell game here?
rmm.
Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson has my vote for pres, should he choose to run. He’s got some backbone. As the Mayor of a red state city, to say such things many times is impressive. Unfortunately, if he did choose to run, our national problems will probably not be corrected, unless we do as he suggests and impeach bush&co. Rocky is one of all too few “democrats” I have respect for. Of course, I have no respect for those to the “right” of Rocky.
We have to organize a general strike.
NOTHING ELSE will wake up the business community, and let’s face it – THEY run our elected officials and therefore the country.
Enough polite marches and protests.
STRIKE!!!!!!
It’s beginning to look like the Democrats think they were elected only to babysit Little Georgie until the next presidential election. But they’re fooling themselves if they supoise their political momentum will be sustained until then without political results. Now we’re in the big-bang ego trip of the Clintons (not one, but two of them!), Obama, Edwards and the rest. Maybe the two senators would do better to stay in D.C. and concentrate on their work, Mr. Clinton can turn to gardening or cooking. I’m sick of these slick, greasy media savvy people. But they’re here to stay. It’s startling how the U.S. has sort of settled down to a rountine of torture, war and economic exploitation of its people as if nothing needs to change.