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Impeach Bush

Salon.com News | Bush’s impeachable offense
“The fact is, the federal law is perfectly clear,” [Jonathan Turley, professor at the George Washington University School of Law] says. “At the heart of this operation was a federal crime. The president has already conceded that he personally ordered that crime and renewed that order at least 30 times. This would clearly satisfy the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors for the purpose of an impeachment.”

Well. It’s about time the media started talking about impeachment. It’s really been a bit of a mystery to me why only a few Democrat congresspeople have brought it up. Maybe after the mid-term elections, when the Republicans lose their majority (and they will lose their majority), the Democrats will no longer be afraid to enforce the law. I swear, we’ve got the whingiest bunch of Democrats in office these days… and they’re not even whinging! They’re just sitting there with stupid sheepish looks on their faces. What will it take to knock some sense into these people? Here’s my promise to candidates from my part of northern Virginia: the first one who publicly calls for Bush’s impeachment has got my vote.

In the meanwhile, I’ve also got to wonder why the Washington Post is only now (and only in small-to-medium sized headlines) beginning to very tentatively suggest that maybe…just maybe… what Bush did was criminal. In this salon.com article, a Post staffer suggests that the paper is waiting until a whole bunch of congresscritters start calling for impeachment. What the fuck? The truth of a situation doesn’t become somehow more true just because a lot of people have finally come to recognize it as the truth! It’s the job of newspapers like the Post to report all the facts — not to only report the popular facts. Jeez… and this is the paper that first reported on the Watergate break-in? Lo, how the mighty have fallen.