Reply #3: "only a year" makes impeachment more, not less, urgent. . . [View All]

[pat_k]

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002302

Harper's
The Case for Impeachment
BY Scott Horton
February 3, 2008

. . .as Bush’s term of office comes to an end, the use of the impeachment remedy becomes more, not less compelling. It can and should be used to draw a line in the sand about the arbitrary use of executive power, making clear that Bush’s abuses cannot be taken as precedent by future presidents. Indeed, failure to use impeachment has its consequences: it means acceptance of Bush’s transformation of the constitutional order. It means that the careful balance between legislature, executive and judiciary created by the Framers has been undone, and the executive has triumphed as the paramount power. . .

And it looks like the truth may be seeping into their impeachophobic heads. (A http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=334569&mesg_id=334745">couple examples in which they "doth protest too much" -- and sound like blithering idiots)