You May Think it's Off the Table' ...by Dan DeWalt (encouraging impeachment)

[babylonsister]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=770

The American people have done a beautiful thing. We have finally declared to ourselves, our leaders, and the rest of the world, that we will no longer follow along willingly as the Republican right wing leads the nation into disrepute.

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Instead, we citizens will frame the debate about accountability. People from towns in every corner of the nation are drafting and circulating petitions calling for an end to the war in Iraq, and for impeachment investigations of Bush and Cheney to be initiated.

By the time the next Congress convenes in January '07, there will be impeachment and end the war resolutions on the town meeting agendas of scores, if not hundreds, of New England towns. There will be active efforts in several state legislatures to get impeachment resolutions based on Jefferson's manual p603 passed and sent on to the U.S. Congress.

It is up to us to put on the pressure so that by the time the next Congress is sworn in, the members will know that we expect our leaders to be held accountable for their actions. When the Democrats can truthfully say that they are only bowing to the demands of their constituents, they will be happy to start meaningful investigations. Any such investigation, if not leading to impeachment, would at least hamstring the Bush administration, which could save us from further disastrous military adventures in Iran and elsewhere.

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[partylessinOhio]

1. Yes! Light up the world with hope for peace and a new America.

Our nation will be reborn in the image and dreams of our founders.

[babylonsister]

2. We, the people, may turn this tide. One can hope. nt

[meow2u3]

3. I think BUSH's impeachment may be 'off the table'

but the impeachment of Cheney, Gonzales, Scalia, and the other architects of corruption--the real powers behind the Oval Office--may well not be. Pelosi never said the neocons and the activist judges on the far right were getting off the hook.

[pat_k]

4. It will always come back to the same bottom line.

. . .The Constitution is under attack; Congress is sworn to defend it, impeachment is the weapon be gave them.

With great crises come great opportunities.

Instead of being champions of the People and the Constitution, they choose the path of "responsible" and tactical appeasement. (As they wipe their foreheads in relief, believing they have dodged the Impeachment "bullet.")

The Democratic Party's failure to take up the fight for impeachment is symptomatic of a deeply ingrained pattern of self-defeating behavior. (We have seen the enemy, and it is us -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2964929">link) post]). Their failure stand up and fulfill their is deplorable, but what makes it so heartbreaking is that they are failing to seize an unprecedented opportunity.