George W. Bush: The case for impeachment

[struggle4progress]

By: Robert Zaller
Issue date: 1/20/06 Section: Ed-Op

thought Bill Clinton was the worst president I'd seen in office until George W. Bush came along. I was appalled when Clinton muffed the best opportunity in sixty years to reform our health care system by handing the job to his wife and even more amazed at the stupidity of providing himself no political distance from the inevitable debacle. I was disgusted with his betrayal of the working and nonworking poor by the passage of NAFTA and so-called welfare reform and at his extension of the death penalty and his weakening of habeas corpus rights for the condemned. I thought his bombing campaign against Serbia was a war crime. I believed he deserved impeachment, not for his sexual behavior, but for abusing the trust of his office in lying about it for eight months. In retrospect, it would have been an immense boon for the country had he been removed by the Senate. Then Al Gore would have become president with two years to establish a record of his own, and we might well have been spared the nightmare of the present administration.

If Clinton deserved impeaching, Bush needs it. He has created the greatest constitutional crisis in two hundred years, and the future of the republic, degraded as it has already been by the runaway presidencies of his predecessors, may well be in the balance. I don't suggest impeachment lightly, and I don't suggest it on the basis of my disagreement with many, though not all, of Bush's policies. If the American people want to vote for bad air, polluted rivers, destruction of the biosphere and global warming, that is their democratic right. If they want corporate lobbyists to write their energy, health and safety laws, ditto. The remedy for policies you don't agree with is the next election, laying to one side the high probability that Bush was not elected but appointed president in the first place.

Why, then, does Bush require impeachment? I offer the following four articles for the consideration of the Congress ...

http://www.thetriangle.org/media/paper689/news/2006/01/20/EdOp/George.W.Bush.The.Case.For.Impeachment-1478805.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.thetriangle.org

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1. Webpage titled "Bringing Down a Tyrant"

This is the best webpage I have seen in months and months. It is the only bookmark I have under "Constitution"- http://www.hermes-press.com/completing2.htm The tyrant he is talking about bringing down is *, if you had any doubt.

This webpage addresses the problems with the Constitution that Jefferson saw from the beginning. He thought that it did not adequately protect for exactly the same situation we are in now.

It deserves its own thread. It presents such a novel idea of what is wrong that it deserves to make it to the greatest page.

If you have a bookmark folder for "Constitution", I cannot suggest adding this enough.

[AverageJoe]

2. Great stuff

Thank you for posting!

[eugene5debs]

3. Bush's latest impeachable offense

He can always be counted on to strip mine America for his cronies.

http://www.staggeron.org/universe.html#Bush_cedes_California