If you want a little light reading, something to take your mind off all the polls and attack commercials and he said/she said ridiculousness of the midterms, here you go:
A
plan is in place to censure and impeach President Bush and Vice
President Cheney. Orchestrated and organized by the radical Left and
Congressman John Conyers, Jr., this plan is ready to go should the
Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives in
November.The
plan is the ultimate manifestation of left-wing hatred for George W.
Bush rooted in the contentious election of 2000. Since failing to
defeat Bush in 2004, the Left has focused its efforts on destroying his
presidency by assembling a list of charges aimed at impeaching him.
Impeachment plans began seriously coalescing in 2005, after the NY Times
published classified aspects of the NSA surveillance program. In mid-
December of that year, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, asked a group of
presidential scholars whether President George W. Bush had committed an
impeachable offense when he authorized the NSA foreign surveillance
program. John Dean, the long-time Bush critic of Watergate fame
provided Boxer with the answer she and most other Democrats were
looking for: “Bush is the first president to admit an impeachable
offense,” he said.
Around the same time, Senator John Kerry, D-MA, told a gathering of 100 Democrats
that, should they capture the House in 2006, there would be a “solid
case” for impeachment based on President Bush’s “misleading” the
American public over prewar intelligence. Kerry was picking up where
another prominent Democrat had, on November 1, 2005, left off. On that
day, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a rare closed Senate sessionwith other Democrats to look into the “misinformation and
disinformation” used by the Bush administration to justify Operation
Iraqi Freedom.
Boxer
and Kerry weren’t the only prominent Democrats discussing the
possibility of impeachment during 2005. Such matters were also being
discussed by Diane Feinstein, Carl Levin and Ron Wyden, who, along with
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and left-leaning Republicans Chuck
Hagel and Olympia Snowe, called for both Senate Intelligence and
Judiciary Committee investigations into the NSA wiretaps. And on
December 20, 2005, Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, underscored those calls, saying:
I
look forward to further inquiry in the House and Senate on these
matters. The American people deserve the truth. We must gather the
facts and determine once and for all whether the law was violated.
There is no question that the U.S. Congress has impeached presidents
for lesser offenses.
More recently, Rep. Brad Miller, D-GA, said,
“The Democrats on the House Science Committee are collecting stories of
the intimidation or censoring of scientists. We’re building a case for
hearings by the Committee, which may be unrealistic to expect under the
current majority, or to be ready for hearings next year if Democrats gain the majority in November.”
[Emphasis added.] Miller was making that threat in relation to
accusations by leftists and Democrats that Bush was silencing those
concerned about global warming.
And then there are the constant calls by congressional Democrats, led by Senator Carl Levin,
D-MI, to investigate the treatment of terrorist prisoners held by the
U.S. at Guantanamo Bay and other locations. But most telling of all was
Senator Harry Reid’s November 2005 attempt to begin the “Phase II“
investigation into the Bush administration’s use of intelligence in the
run-up to the Iraq War. Reid said Congress must subpoena administration
officials and documents in order to determine how Bush built his case
for war.
To
some observers, the Democrats’ endless calls for investigations might
appear to be simply a dead-end continuation of the 2000 election –
heavy on anti-Bush vitriol and posturing, light on concrete action. And
such observers might have been right, if not for the fact that a bill, H.R.635, aimed at investigating articles of impeachment, was submitted to Congress on Dec.18, 2005. The submission of that bill by John Conyers Jr. was, first and foremost, a legislative victory for the radical Left and its sugar daddy, Shadow Partyleader George Soros, who for all practical purposes guides the
anti-U.S., terrorist-sympathizing agendas of the Democratic Party by
funding groups that push far-Left candidates and threaten the careers of existing Democratic Party members who do not tow the radical Left line.
Or maybe the administration deserves to be impeached. That’s another possibility.