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Why Cheney and Bush should be impeached now

Most politically astute citizens seem to believe that the time for impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney has past. We are in the midst of the next presidential campaign cycle. Let it run its course.

I disagree. Because of the sweeping power of the executive branch - significantly magnified by Cheney's and Bush's assumptions of even grander power - the only control for an out-of-control chief executive is impeachment. It is the constitutional remedy of last resort. Both Bush and Cheney must be impeached at the same time lest we inherit President Cheney (begin shudder here).

Cheney and Bush have suspended habeas corpus, violated the constitution, continue to use torture...ah, hell, you know the charges. The point is that the next president, whomever she or he may be, needs to know that the American people will not sit quietly during the next 15 months and let the hemoraging continue. Nor will we accept the next administration's only slightly ratcheting back the abuses of power we have endured (and ratified in two elections, only objecting in the most recent mid-year fiasco) during the Bush-Cheney reign.

Our rights are endangered, our reputation is on life-support, and our moral high ground is now a swamp. It must stop now.

The "distraction" of an impeachment would in fact be invigorating and clarifying to the campaigns. These unworthy successors must know that we're fed up and will not roll over any more. The executive branch must be rebooted. Now.

Labels: Bush, Cheney, impeachment

posted by DanZ @ 7:26 AM