Impeachment: If not now, when?-Lawmakers need to stand up for the Constitution. (Editorial)

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Impeachment: If not now, when?
Lawmakers need to stand up for the Constitution and support impeachment
By LINDA BOYD
GUEST COLUMNIST




The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. -- Article II, Section 4

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Judiciary Committee member Bob Wexler wrote, "The American people are served well with a legitimate and thorough impeachment inquiry. I will urge the Judiciary Committee to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months. Only through hearings can we begin to correct the abuses of Dick Cheney and the Bush administration."


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The issue is not about removing Bush and Cheney as much as it is about preserving the Constitution and redeeming the office of the executive. The Constitution is the contract of governance between the people and the government. What happens when major portions of the contract are violated?

Congress has failed to call the president and vice president to account, so citizens must turn up the heat. Members of Congress who fail to demand investigations are covering for criminals. Every elected official has sworn an oath to "support and protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic." Anything less than impeachment and a full repudiation of the Bush administration's crimes and violations of the law is a dereliction of duty and a betrayal of the public trust.

If we want our democracy back, we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work to clean out the House.

Linda Boyd is director of Washington For Impeachment, www.washingtonforimpeachment.org. Citizens to Impeach Bush and Cheney, in Olympia: www.citizensimpeach.org

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1. The Response

The response section to this is pretty enlightening. Not just for those responders that "get it", but also for those that still believe in Bush and his efforts.

Amazing that REALITY seems to not enter in to some people's thinking? I wonder if the MSM stenography has anything to do with their erroneous opinions?

-85% Jimmy

[Larry Ogg]

2. And yet somehow, one of the one’s enabling the Bush / Cheney criminal régime,

and fighting to keep impeachment off of the table is leading in the corporately owned main stream media poles to be the next president. And to add insult to injury, the drum beats to support these enablers no mater what in the general once the msm hands them a victory in the democratic primary.

I think Bush and Cheney followed a precedent, in Iraq and Afghanistan, of removing and hunting down not only the regimes leaders but also their enablers, to bad fair and free elections within American Democracy is unable to do the same thing, or as they say, clean the house.

[Echo In Light]

3. Our govt is not about "standing up for the Constitution," but SUBVERTING it

Which is why the establishment has so effectively sold the American populace on the idea that impeachment/substantive accountability is "bad" for the country, and sadly, many buy it hook, line and sinker. Besides, with so many BIG skeletons within the closet - election fraud, PNAC, 9/11, manufactured "intelligence," and so forth - there's simply no way the so called oppositional party will dare push for genuine accountability.

[Senator]

4. K&R&ImpeachToWin08