Ducking Impeachment in Congress and the Newsroom

[Fireweed247]

...The unwillingness of the nation’s news media to seriously consider the need for Congress to respond to and challenge the president’s clear abuses of power—even as they themselves condemn of those abuses of power—is a blot on the journalistic profession perhaps worse, and of more lasting consequence, than their failure to act as watchdogs and critics during the run-up to the Iraq War, when they acted more as patriotic cheerleaders than as news organizations.

As impeachment advocates, including Rep. Kucinich, have pointed out, unless this president and vice president are impeached by the current Congress, any—and probably every—future president will feel empowered by unchallenged precedent to ignore laws passed by the Congress, to go to war without Congressional approval, to spy on Americans in violation of the law, to ignore court orders, to abrogate international treaties, and to lie to Congress and the American people. Unless Congress asserts its rights under Article I, it will no longer even be a co-equal branch of government, but instead will have been reduced to nothing more than a debating society.

Editorialists, while refusing to honestly report on this Constitutional crisis, have been parroting the claim of gutless and calculating Democratic Party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in saying that with the nation at war and with a critical election approaching, there are “more pressing” matters to consider than impeachment, and that impeachment would be a “diversion.”

This is nonsense. As hundreds of American troops continue to die each quarter in a war that never should have happened, and that was launched five years ago and continued for half a decade thanks to administration lies and deception, there is nothing more important facing this nation than restoring Constitutional government and Constitutional checks and balances—something that can only be done through the Constitutional process of impeachment....

http://atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/4107/81/

[simmonsj811]

1. Kicking to the top!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[cliffordu]

2. K&R

[EFerrari]

3. Kick

[sharesunited]

4. Not worth alienating the electorate.

Keep your eyes on the prize. The Executive Branch, goddamn it. We can do everything with it which needs to get done.

[stubtoe]

5. Author states the problem exactly; if no consequences for this administration,

then future presidents will feel emboldened to ignore laws and the Congress as well.

There cannot be separate rules for Republican and Democratic presidents! It's long past time to separate journalism from the political will of those who own the media companies.

[Fireweed247]

6. obviously Nixon has already emboldened these bastards

The only way we will get accountability again is with a Dem as president, then the Republicans will scream bloody murder about everything Obama does.