DKos diary WELL worth reading in its entirety:http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/25/192834/673I'm For Censure & Impeachment, And You Should Be, Too by Jeffrey Feldman
Sat Mar 25, 2006 at 05:28:33 PM PDT
There is a debate brewing as to whether or not the cries for impeachment coming from every corner of this nation are good or bad for the political prospects of President Bush and the Republicans. This has led to questions both from Congress and analysts as to whether or not Democrats should focus their energy on impeachment or the more recent move to censure.
Unfortunately, the entire debate is based on a false premise--a deceptive idea spilling into the media from the GOP spin machine faster than oil from the Exxon Valdiz. Democrats need to be careful not to get caught up in this slick deception because if we do, the risk will be a loss of our moral clarity--which is our single greatest asset heading into 2006 and 2008.
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To date, the most engaged the public has been in every topic that matters have been the calls for impeachment. But even more specifically, these calls for impeachment have focused in many cases on the war and the President's violation of the law in the Domestic spying scandal. We need only look at the impeachment resolutions to see that they are not distractions.
For example, consider the call for impeachment passed by the Board of Selectmen in Newfane, Vermont, which is indicative of what these calls for impeachment look like across the country:
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