Reply #25: Makes ya wanna scream or cry, doesn't it?

[pat_k]

All you have to do is think for two minutes about the choice impeachment forces Senators to make.

They can oppose removal and

1. "Stand with" the Pariah in Chief and his puppet master -- the pair they are practically scrambling over each other to "distance" themselves from.


2. Defend the Unconstitutional, Un-Americans, and patently absurd claim that our Constitution gives the Office of the President the "right" to violate law by fiat, as long as they claim they are doing it to "protect us."


3. Tell the American public that they didn't mean it when they voted for McCain's anti-torture amendment (passed 90-9). That they were happy Bush ordered the various agencies to continue to kidnap, secretly and indefinitely hold, and torture anyone Bush arbitrarily labels "enemy combatant, in direct violaton of both the existing law and the new law. (The Geneva conventions are part of U.S. Code so when they broke Geneva, they break our laws.)


4. They would have to defend Bush's claim that his scribble next to McCain's amendment, and about a thousand others, actually nullifies/modifies the provision. That is, they would have to defend Bush's "right" to render Congress powerless. (Render THEM, the Senate, with their big fat egos, powerless).


5. They would have to take a public position that would hand all these fascist powers to unitary executive Hillary, or Obama, or whoever.

OR they can support removal and

Reject the fascist fantasies invoked by both Bush and Cheney, vote "guilty," and thus hand the keys to the White House to Pelosi.

Now, you tell me. Given that choice, what do you think Republican Senators would do?

I know what I think. They would be marching over to the White House in mass to force Bush and Cheney to resign and hand the keys to a successor the House and Senate agree to immediately confirm. {I figure Danforth, but that just a guess.}