Impeachment is Back on the Table

[Joanne98]

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The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the Vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself.

--Excerpt from Scott McClellan's forthcoming book "What Happened"
(Public Affairs Books, due out in April 2008)


With that one little statement, released on the Public Affairs Books website this week, all excuses for not impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney, not to mention indicting Cheney (who of course has no immunity from prosecution while in office), have evaporated.

Here is rock-solid evidence from a man who, as press secretary, was privy to the inner workings of the White House, of a vile conspiracy involving the two top men in the Bush/Cheney administration, as well as their top three staffpeople, to expose the identity of an important CIA undercover operative, Valerie Plame, and then, when caught, to obstruct a criminal investigation by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, into that crime.

Forget for a moment the administration's other high crimes and misdemeanors and acts of bribery and treason, though many, like defying laws passed by the Congress, or violating the Nuremburg Charter, are surely far more egregious. This particular set of crimes--conspiracy, obstruction of justice, lying, and of course the underlying crime of abuse of power and perhaps treason (since Plame's responsibility as a high-rankiing CIA operative was preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly in the Middle East!)--is serious enough.

There is no way that American democracy can continue to survive, even in its current truncated form, if the Congress continues to duck this issue and pretend that it has "more important things to do," as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her retinue of "leaders" in the House have continued to claim for an entire year in control of the Congress.

To keep impeachment "off the table," knowing that the president and vice president brazenly lied to the American people and to the Special Counsel's office about such a serious offense, is to make a mockery of the Constitution and the law.

Bush and Cheney must be impeached at this point if only to save school districts across the nation the cost of having to buy all new American history and civics texts, revised so as to remove all discussion of the notion of Constitutional checks and balances and the word "impeachment."

It is of course possible that
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[Demeter]

1. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, When It's Fast Asleep

Wake up, Joanne, the fat lady hasn't sung--yet.

[Demit]

2. Annoyingly misleading title to this essay. The writer is only calling for impeachment.

Not your fault, of course, and I saw that it wasn't a news story, but whoever runs this global research site should be more accurate in how they characterize their essays in the title.

[Joanne98]

4. You got to keep the pressure on!

[AndyA]

3. Impeachment SHOULD be on the table, but it isn't. Yet.

I keep hoping those in Congress will do what they must do and start impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney, but to date they are woefully negligent in performing their duties mandated by the Constitution.

Which makes them totally incapable of performing their jobs, or accomplices to the crimes of Bushco.

[Bitwit1234]

5. I DO NOT want to see impeachment on the table.

I want it to be in the House, being augured and investigated and acted on.

[AlertLurker]

6. I gurantee "that one little statement" won't be in the final draft.

Three words:

PIMP
MY
BOOK.

[formercia]

7. Impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate.

Anything less would be a travesty of Justice.

[Baby Snooks]

8. On the table?

Impeachment may be on our table. It is not on Madame Speaker's table. And Madame Speaker has made it clear she intends for it to remain off the table. She has become the Empress serving the Emperor.

What a shame California does not allow its voters to recall a member of Congress although the real shame is the California Democratic Party not calling her on the carpet over her actions. So many of them. Not just this. But this. Appalling. No other word for it.

Hopefully the voters in her district will thumb their noses at the state party and vote her out of Congress and send them a message as well.