Reply #6: Yes! Impeachment, not term limits, is the means by which. . .

[pat_k]

. . .we assert our sovereignty over any official in the judicial or executive branch.

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PERSONALLY, I THINK IMPEACHING THE BASTARDS AND NULLIFYING ANY RULINGS THEY PROMULGATED WOULD BE MUCH MORE USEFUL, BOTH NOW AND IN FUTURE CASES.

Whether we delegate power by election or appointment, we make the rules. Whatever the term of service, we have the power to impeach and remove -- effectively withdraw our consent -- at any time.

Making the impeachment of Bush and Cheney a reality is the first and most urgent priority, but there are a few other tasks that run a close second.

Impeaching the felonious five for Bush v. Gore is one of those tasks. (And yes, I do mean ALL Five -- Rehnquist posthumously and O'Conner "in absentia." Bush v. Gore is evil seed of the horrors that have followed. By impeaching the felonious five, we can confront the truth as a nation and unequivocally reject that edict for all time.

The fascist fantasy that the American presidency is an office with unitary authoritarian power to break our laws at will "to protect us" is an intolerable threat to our constitutional democracy. We must purge our judiciary and justice department of the promoters and apologists for that fascist doctrine, starting with the impeachment of Alito and Roberts.

A lot of "We the People" need to be reminded that we have surrendered NONE of our soveriegnty to any institution or office we've created. No executive or court action can trump our will. Government is not some abstract system. It is driven by the actions of people. The power to remove the people who corrupt the system is the means by which we enforce our sovereign will over the workings of our government.

And contrary to what many on "our side" seem to believe, you can't "fix the system" if you refuse to go after wrong-doers. "Exposing them" is not enough. Removal from office is a defensive first step. Prosecution must follow. If you don't go after the wrong-doers, and just seek to "make sure it doesn't happen again" you can guarantee that "it" will happen again in some form.

The power to impeach is of absolute necessity to maintaining our sovereignty. We delegated the power to initiate proceedings to the House, the body closest to and most responsive to "We the People." Bush and Cheney are violating the terms of our common contract. With her arrogant "off the table" edict, Pelosi has attempted to strip us of our enforcement power.

If she succeeds in her attempt by abusing her power as speaker to enforce her edict, she will have committed a violation more fundamentally devastating to the integrity of our constitutional democracy than teh horrors Bush and Cheney have wrought. Her abuse of power doeesn't just enable Bush and Cheney to continue their abuses. Her abuses tell the American people that they have no power. When people believe they have no power, fascists thrive. Anything goes. War crimes. Torture. Babies on spikes on the White House lawn.