It all started last Friday when Bruce Fein, a former Reagan official on Bill Moyer’s Journal argued that impeachement was necessary to save the constitution. That was some pretty powerful stuff!!
Then this week, Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review, wrote a column titled Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy (you have to scroll down over the ad about Hillary being a Republican).
When conservatives like Fein and Roberts are sounding the alarm bells, I wonder if we shouldn’t listen??
Here’s a few excepts from Roberts column:
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.
Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of “executive orders” that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency.
Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq is that the administration intends to rescue its unpopular position with false flag operations that can be used to expand the war to Iran.
Think about it. If another 9/11-type “security failure” were not in the works, why would Homeland Security czar Chertoff go to the trouble of convincing the Chicago Tribune that Americans have become complacent about terrorist threats and that he has “a gut feeling” that America will soon be hit hard?
Why would Republican warmonger Rick Santorum say on the Hugh Hewitt radio show that “between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s (sic) going to have a very different view of this war.”
Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging “terrorist” attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?
The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown. Are coming “terrorist” events of which Chertoff warns and Santorum promises the means for overthrowing our constitutional democracy?
You can listen to Thom Hartman from Air America interview Roberts last Thursday here. He makes a strong case by talking about the executive orders that are in place NOW for martial law and the idea that it is inconceivable that Cheney and Rove would just be content to sit back and watch the Republicans implode in 2008.
Remember, Cheney and Rove don’t react to reality – they create it.
Makes you wonder if these guys who have spent years inside Republican circles might know/see something coming that the rest of us are missing.