Impeachment Time: Grab the Torches and Pitchforks! (ILCA)

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Impeachment Time: Grab the Torches and Pitchforks!
Dave Lindorff

Self-styled “progressives” in Congress should stop being afraid to demand Bush’s head. The Fitzgerald indictment is now about one man lying; it’s about a cover-up of the president’s and vice president’s mad scheme to trick the country into a war in Iraq, and that calls for impeachment. A bill of impeachment should be introduced right away. <snip>

In fact, there is a powerful and growing popular sentiment for impeachment--we just don’t hear about it. The Zogby organization, the only polling outfit to have posed the question to date, found last June that 42 percent of Americans felt Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war (a much larger percentage believe he lied). That, of course, was before the mainstream media began finally reporting, as a result of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of Plamegate, on the disinformation campaign for war against Iraq directed by Vice President Dick Cheney and the White House Iraq Group. It was also before Bush himself was found to have been in on the cover-up of the outing of Valerie Plame by Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and presidential advisor Karl Rove. It was also before the US death toll in Iraq topped 2000.

Significantly, it was also before Bush’s callous and inept performance following the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, which has driven his approval rating down to the size of his hard-core conservative base.

It's a safe bet that the percentage in favor of impeachment of this liar and joke of a president today would be a lot higher than Zogby found it to be in June--a figure, incidentally, which is higher than it ever was during the entire impeachment saga of President Bill Clinton in 1998/9, when the issue was, not an illegal war but an adulterous blow job. <snip>

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[xchrom]

1. lol -- bush's head on trial.

shades of jason!