"JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST:
On Capitol Hill and across America, Democrats are starting to talk impeachment? They are. The San Francisco City Council trying to pass resolutions to impeach or talk about impeaching the president of the United States. All across America, Democratic candidates running for Congress talking about impeaching the president, and other people writing columns, former congresswomen that were engaged in impeachment writing columns suggesting it‘s time for George Bush to be impeached. "
In response to concerns that impeaching Blinky is dumb because of Cheney, David Swanson notes:
These are my top five reasons to stop worrying about Cheney for godsake:
1. Cheney is running the show now backstage. We'd be better off with him up front as a walking advertisement for voting against Republicans.
2. Impeachment and removal from office are two separate things, one of which has never been done in U.S. history. The Republicans destroyed what was left of a Democratic Party by impeaching Clinton. They did not remove him from office.
3. An investigation into impeachment, as well as proposals for censure, serve an educational and political purpose in themselves and move us toward impeachment. Let's stop jumping five steps ahead of ourselves in order to fantasize about defeat. Let's demand what's right and then benefit politically from having done so. Get the cart out of the way of the donkey!
4. It is impossible to investigate Bush or Cheney without incriminating the other.
5. If you cannot impeach for the highest crime imaginable, taking the nation to war on the basis of lies, then you can never impeach, or impeachment must be reserved for sex. It is the duty of every citizen to demand what is right and just. It is disgraceful to declare that you know it is right but to argue that you're too clever a strategist to act on it.
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