HuffPo: Elizabeth Holtzman Calls For bush's Impeachment

[stopbush]

I want to start with a point I made in my new book, The Impeachment of George W. Bush, about why the framers of the Constitution created the impeachment power.

They were afraid that despite the system of checks and balances, a president could subvert the constitution and threaten our democracy.
In other words, the framers anticipated George W. Bush. They knew that sooner or later someone like him--someone who tramples on the rule of law--would appear on the scene. The framers told us what to do about such a president: Impeach him.

Parenthetically, the situation in Afghanistan--where Osama bin Laden actually operated--seems to be deteriorating drastically, a direct consequence of the President's diversion of troops and resources to invade Iraq. President Bush might become the first American president to lose two wars at once.

In addition, yesterday, several high level generals excoriated Secretary Rumsfeld for failing to provide our troops with proper equipment and for invading Iraq without a plan for the occupation. While they are correct, these failings are not Rumsfeld's alone. President Bush is ultimately responsible. As my book details, Bush, the "decider," should have insisted on a serious and thorough plan for the occupation. He didn't. He should also have ensured proper equipment for our troops. He didn't. The consequences for our troops, for Americans, and for Iraqis have been disastrous. Particularly because there was no urgency to the invasion, which had been in planning for more than a year, these failures violate Bush's constitutional duty to "take care" that the laws are faithfully executed.

Every day brings a new justification for impeachment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-holtzman/a-case-for-impeachment_b_30321.html

[rumpel]

1. I'm patiently waiting....still

but it has to be a wider net.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Impeach Indict Imprison

Nothing less is acceptable.

[TahitiNut]

5. Impeach. Indict. Imprison. Rinse. Repeat.

Until these war criminals are in prison, we're an outlaw nation without honor, undeserving of living in a democracy.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Sometimes I add a 4th I

IMPALE.

But I am opposed to the death penalty as a general rule.

[TahitiNut]

7. (grin) As am I against it.

I think a life sentence of solitary confinement in a padded cell is quite adequate. Add a straitjacket for El Diablo Smirko.

[Ken Burch]

3. It's always good to hear from Elizabeth Holtzman

I admired her courage in bravely standing up to the Nixonites when she was a young congressmember from Brooklyn serving on the Impeachment Committee.

She was the U.S. Senator New York should have had(and would have had, if only Jacob Javits hadn't stayed on as the Liberal Party candidate after losing the 1980 GOP primary, thereby splitting the moderate-to-liberal vote and helping consign the state to eighteen years of Al D'Amato).

I hope the next Democratic president considers her as an Attorney General or Supreme Court nominee.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. He's actually gonna lose THREE wars

Every indication being he's going to be so foolish as to attack Iran.

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: