Why We MUST Impeach (Mary Lyon)

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Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

Nov. 13, 2006 -- It’s really a no-brainer. We simply HAVE to do it. We HAVE to IMPEACH George W. Bush. There really is no other way and no other priority in the wake of the Democratic takeover. ALL other priorities MUST lead to this.

All I’m seeing at the moment is a return to the galling and spineless gentility of Democrats “making nice.” Seems Nancy Pelosi, and even John “Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee” Conyers, want only to extend olive branches and get along and not rattle any cages. Accountability, anyone? Well, MAYBE, if we’re lucky and they decide they really do need to the people’s business and start investigating some of the shenanigans that have gone on previously unchecked and mindlessly rubberstamped. But the most important rectifying mechanism, IMPEACHMENT, is “off the table.” Hello? Were they snoozing through November 7th? Did they not hear that previously-ignored group -– “We the People” –- literally roaring its collective heads off? The status quo is OUT, as are a great many of those who relentlessly, ruthlessly, and willfully insisted on it.

IMPEACHMENT should absolutely be ON the table. It should be the centerpiece on that table, as a matter of fact. I’m looking at this from several perspectives to support this assertion.

First, as a mom. If my kids committed some deliberate, egregious wrong, shouldn’t there be punishment? If I, as their mother, fail to show them that there are consequences for bad deeds, what will they learn? And what kind of mother will that prove me to be? Negligence wouldn’t even begin to describe it. You love them to absolute pieces. But that does NOT mean you turn a blind eye to their running amok. Bad behavior should NEVER be reinforced, let alone benignly ignored -- and certainly NEVER rewarded -– by allowing the bad behavior to continue unchecked. Even Dr. Laura would have to agree with that one.

Second, as an employer. As a voter and taxpayer, I am the boss of my elected representatives -– whether they like it or not (fortunately, mine, Democrats all, probably do). THEY work for ME. It’s NOT the other way around. I have never been in any business where one of the employees, and yes, even the management, is not held to account for bad behavior, poor performance, getting the company sued, losing the company a lot of money, or face -– in bad PR, or lousy decision-making. NEVER. Poor results were NEVER supported or sustained, nor were the people responsible for them. Eventually, heads rolled. ALWAYS. NO program director at ANY radio station at which I worked EVER survived very long after presiding over a stretch of bad ratings. EVER. Sometimes the general manager ate it, too. I’ve seen instances where the housecleaning was so thorough that even the general sales manager and several secretaries and executive assistants to the purged upper-management people also got the boot. Those who’d preach the gospel of “running the government like a business” have never weighed in on this aspect of the business template.

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