I heard Senator Reid say yesterday that one of the top things on the agenda in the new Congress will be "the reconciliation of the parties." And Nancy Palosi is all over MSNBC talking about a "spirit of bi-partisanship." I do believe that we need
those things..., but let's not be too hasty. There are some heads that NEED to roll first, first among them, that of the President.
Its not about revenge. This president has gone to great lengths to subvert and evade the Constitution of the United States, and there can be no bi-partisanship, there can be no reconciliation until this president has been publicly "smacked down" as a historical reminder to future presidents that this kind of activity will not be tolerated and cannot repeated.
This president has amassed more power to himself than any past president, and he has used that power to spy on American citizens, to roll back the Bill Of Rights, and, by use of the signing signature, to exempt himself from laws that he doesn't like. These
things alone are reason enough for Articles of Impeachment to be brought against Mr. Bush. More than this, this president has been the very author of the partisanship and polarization that has plagued this country, and he must be called to account for his uses of fear and terror in order to divide the people of this country.
All the corruption of this Congress, from the Jack Abramoff scandal, the Foley cover-up, the voter fraud of the 2000 elections in Ohio and Florida, the Haliburton scandals, Tom DeLay's scandals, the utter failure of the policies and war plans for Iraq, Bob Ney's scandals, energy policy being decided by oil company leaders behind closed doors and with no public accountability, ALL OF IT (click the link to go to Salon's list of all the Republican scandals) done under the auspices of the Bush administration and the unprecedented secrecy in which it chose to operate. This president has, on so many levels, undermined the foundations of our Democratic way of life and has sought, by whatever means available, to guarantee the continuation of power by his own party, and he has brought us as close to fascism as we could ever want to come.
Finally, Goerge W. Bush must be impeached because of the lies he told the country concerning Iraq. Iraq was never an immanent threat to the U.S. There were no WMD's, and there were no high level contacts between Iraq and Al-Qeada. This was a war for oil, and Mr. Bush lied to us at every juncture in the run up to hostilities. His minions criscrossed the country telling us that the evidence was going to be a "mushroom cloud," and that they knew "exactly where the WMD's are."
Yes I agree that we must be willing to join hands with the Republicans and try to move forward in a spirit of bi-patisanship. But Mr. Bush is a boil on the ass politik that must be lanced, now.
those things..., but let's not be too hasty. There are some heads that NEED to roll first, first among them, that of the President.
Its not about revenge. This president has gone to great lengths to subvert and evade the Constitution of the United States, and there can be no bi-partisanship, there can be no reconciliation until this president has been publicly "smacked down" as a historical reminder to future presidents that this kind of activity will not be tolerated and cannot repeated.
This president has amassed more power to himself than any past president, and he has used that power to spy on American citizens, to roll back the Bill Of Rights, and, by use of the signing signature, to exempt himself from laws that he doesn't like. These
things alone are reason enough for Articles of Impeachment to be brought against Mr. Bush. More than this, this president has been the very author of the partisanship and polarization that has plagued this country, and he must be called to account for his uses of fear and terror in order to divide the people of this country.
All the corruption of this Congress, from the Jack Abramoff scandal, the Foley cover-up, the voter fraud of the 2000 elections in Ohio and Florida, the Haliburton scandals, Tom DeLay's scandals, the utter failure of the policies and war plans for Iraq, Bob Ney's scandals, energy policy being decided by oil company leaders behind closed doors and with no public accountability, ALL OF IT (click the link to go to Salon's list of all the Republican scandals) done under the auspices of the Bush administration and the unprecedented secrecy in which it chose to operate. This president has, on so many levels, undermined the foundations of our Democratic way of life and has sought, by whatever means available, to guarantee the continuation of power by his own party, and he has brought us as close to fascism as we could ever want to come.
Finally, Goerge W. Bush must be impeached because of the lies he told the country concerning Iraq. Iraq was never an immanent threat to the U.S. There were no WMD's, and there were no high level contacts between Iraq and Al-Qeada. This was a war for oil, and Mr. Bush lied to us at every juncture in the run up to hostilities. His minions criscrossed the country telling us that the evidence was going to be a "mushroom cloud," and that they knew "exactly where the WMD's are."
Yes I agree that we must be willing to join hands with the Republicans and try to move forward in a spirit of bi-patisanship. But Mr. Bush is a boil on the ass politik that must be lanced, now.
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