Impeach Cheney
You will find me discussing impeachment often on this blog, because I'm here to write about the Constitution, and impeachment is Constitutional redress for criminal behavior among those who govern. Nine states have started a state-based grassroots impeachment process because Congress is failing to do its job. Much like the hundreds of communities and states that have repudiated the Patriot Act and established strict Campaign Finance Reform (see the links to the right), states are doing what Congress is failing to do.
It is tiresome that politicians are so afraid of a process that was emphasized five times in the first three Articles of the Constitution. The framers were adamant that we not have a King. And these politicians claim we should let the voters decide, because impeachment would be too partisan. (Yeah, right, as if we can trust our voting system when we can be pretty sure that insiders helped swing key states to Bush in both 2000 and 2004.) These "legislators" fail to grasp the fact that political parties are not discussed in the Constitution, but impeachment is.
Which brings me to Dick Cheney. For all the worries about impeaching Bush or both Bush and Cheney (we can't afford to tick these people off, we can't risk having a President Cheney, etc.), no one seems to consider that the administration will become toothless without its kingmaker. It would be a compromise that would give the country and the Constitution a fighting chance.
I knew the Bush family as a kid, and there's no love lost there, but, strangely enough, I actually think GWB is well-intentioned. He's being guided by evil, however, so his good intentions are paving a road to hell. Get rid of the evil, and he might pull himself out of the muck.
I will be writing quite a bit about Cheney's aspirations and wrongdoings in upcoming posts, but in the meantime, I urge you to read this article:
Vice President Cheney, Chef in Chief
I'm proud that one of my Senators is leading the investigation, and I hope he sticks with it. If so, and if we get more Dems in Congress in November, we might actually be able to take all this criminal activity and turn it into Articles. Not that GWB doesn't deserve the articles John Conyers has waiting for him, too, but writing up and indicting Cheney first could be way around that pesky "partisan" foolishness. Then we'll see if GWB shapes up and demonstrates that he really does have good intentions. If so, we'll know that we've rid ourselves of the real troublemaker and we will give GWB a chance to hobble through until 2008.
It is tiresome that politicians are so afraid of a process that was emphasized five times in the first three Articles of the Constitution. The framers were adamant that we not have a King. And these politicians claim we should let the voters decide, because impeachment would be too partisan. (Yeah, right, as if we can trust our voting system when we can be pretty sure that insiders helped swing key states to Bush in both 2000 and 2004.) These "legislators" fail to grasp the fact that political parties are not discussed in the Constitution, but impeachment is.
Which brings me to Dick Cheney. For all the worries about impeaching Bush or both Bush and Cheney (we can't afford to tick these people off, we can't risk having a President Cheney, etc.), no one seems to consider that the administration will become toothless without its kingmaker. It would be a compromise that would give the country and the Constitution a fighting chance.
I knew the Bush family as a kid, and there's no love lost there, but, strangely enough, I actually think GWB is well-intentioned. He's being guided by evil, however, so his good intentions are paving a road to hell. Get rid of the evil, and he might pull himself out of the muck.
I will be writing quite a bit about Cheney's aspirations and wrongdoings in upcoming posts, but in the meantime, I urge you to read this article:
I'm proud that one of my Senators is leading the investigation, and I hope he sticks with it. If so, and if we get more Dems in Congress in November, we might actually be able to take all this criminal activity and turn it into Articles. Not that GWB doesn't deserve the articles John Conyers has waiting for him, too, but writing up and indicting Cheney first could be way around that pesky "partisan" foolishness. Then we'll see if GWB shapes up and demonstrates that he really does have good intentions. If so, we'll know that we've rid ourselves of the real troublemaker and we will give GWB a chance to hobble through until 2008.
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