Are you listening Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers? Because you should be, oh you should be (via The Raw Story):
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) says he’s hatched a plan that will secure health care for children, help to restore America’s reputation around the world, and empower the the Democratic party to rediscover the courage of its convictions. He calls it “impeachment hearings.” […]
“The way we pass stem-cell research, the way we get implemented a children’s health care plan, the way we get higher CAFE [corporate average fuel economy] standards to bring our energy debacle into a better condition for generations to come is to have impeachment hearings,” Wexler said, appearing to nearly run out breath at one point during his speech. “Because that’ll get the president’s eye. That’ll get the vice president’s eye. That for the first time will show that the Democratic majority is here, and that in fact we have the courage of our convictions, and that we’re not bound to be tied by conventional wisdom.”
Wexler said that impeachment hearings weren’t just an option available to Congress, but a requirement.
“This administration has abused its power in office…and it is the obligation — not discretionary — but it is the obligation of this Congress to investigate,” he said. “And that’s what I and some of my colleagues are beginning to call for.”
Amen, brother. Wexler goes on to say that impeachment hearings would go a long way toward improving America’s reputation in the world, which might make it easier to accomplish some of our foreign policy objectives. I think he has a valid point. Until the world sees us taking some action to make the criminals in the White House accountable, they will continue to delay or refuse to cooperate with us on those items on our foreign policy and national security agenda which require the assistance of other countries. As Bob Wexler says, impeachment hearings are the only thing that would put the fear of god into the Bush administration, and we already have the vehicle in Dennis Kucinich’s resolution sitting in the Judiciary Committee to begin those hearings, if only our Democratic Leaders (cough) would start acting like — well, like leaders.
Ps. If you want to see a video of Rep. Wexler’s remarks, go to this link at The Raw Story and scroll down.
