Reply #9: Holtzman: "Let me give you the "weapons" for those who are going to be the naysayers here."

[seafan]

Plenty of people didn't want to do it. They were forced to do it because of the American people.
People say, "Why should we have impeachment? We now have the democrats in charge. That's enough. Checks and balances are restored. Who needs it?
Well, we had checks and balances in regard to Nixon. We had the democrats controlling the house and senate and we had the president of the United States. Why'd we have to do impeachment if we had checks and balances?

The constitution doesn't require the minimum. It requires the maximum. We can't have a president of the United States who puts himself above the rule of law if we want to continue with this democracy.That's it. No ifs ands or buts.

The fact that we have checks and balances does not mean that we are not obliged to remove the person who threatens our democracy from the presidency.

Secondly, it's not about revenge. The effort against Richard Nixon was not about revenge. Far from it. It was a bi-partisan effort. it was supported by an overwhelming majority of the American people, most of whom had voted for Nixon. The same people who had voted for Nixon where the ones who phoned and telegrammed their members of congress and wrote the them and protested in front of them, because they understood that this man was shredding the constitution. It's not a partisan thing, not a matter of revenge. It's a matter of setting the right standards and holding those accountable who lied and deceived the American people and who want to shred the constitution still.

There are also those who say that this will disrupt congress. There are some people who say that congress can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Congress, during the impeachment of Richard Nixon, did all the other business of the country and the house judiciary committee did its job. Nothing was disrupted.

And to those who say it divided the country-- the impeachment of Richard Nixon brought it together. How? We all recognized that we shared the same values as a country-- the values being, not a president, one person, not a party, not a political situation, but our commitment to the constitution and to the rule of law. When we discovered that we shared those values, it strengthened us and united us.

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George W. Bush has committed grievous crimes against our Constitution. He must be removed from power.

Once again, the American people must force our elected representatives to act.


To add even more critical urgency to the move for impeachment, George W. Bush was never elected in 2000. As a result, he has engorged himself on the tremendous power, the international respect and potential of the United States of America to improve the living standards of the world's people.

But, with his teeth bared, he invaded, he murdered, he robbed, he tortured, he eavesdropped, he threatened, he neglected.

And he joked about it.



This is our duty, people. We MUST ACT NOW, to rid ourselves of this horror.

It will take tremendous pressure on all of our elected officials. Every day that passes is one more day that George W. Bush will hurt our nation, our people and our way of life.

Let's get after it.




(Slight edit added for obvious typos in the transcript.)

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_elizabet_061112_impeaching_bush_to_p.htm