Reply #116: Impeachment: Saving the Republic is NOT a waste of time!

[IndianaGreen]

The House can hold hearings to determine if an impeachable offense or offenses have been committed by George Bush and/or Dick Cheney. The hearings will be televised. As the American people see the vast evidence of law breaking and deception by Bush/Cheney, their opinion will change and many will see impeachment not just as a possibility, but as a necessity.

When the House, under Chairman Peter Rodino, and the Senate, under Chairman Sam Ervin, held hearings on Nixon's law breaking, opinion polls showed that most Americans did not feel that impeachment was necessary, even when they didn't like Nixon. After the evidence began to come out that Nixon had broken the law and engaged in criminal activity, public opinion began to move in the direction of impeachment. This culminated in Rep. Rodino voting in favor of Articles of Impeachment for Nixon's cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other abuses of power.

We must move public opinion in the direction of impeachment, and the only way to do that is by presenting evidence that will convince a majority of Americans that Bush and Cheney must be impeached if we are to uphold the Constitution and save the Republic.

Were she alive today, Barbara Jordan would not hesitate to stand for the Constitution against a President that has placed himself above the law.