Republicans and Independents for Impeaching Bush and Cheney

Patience on impeachment, folks, now both Bush and Cheney have their butts lined up in Judiciary Committee, and Scott McClellan is yet to testify. Keep up the drumbeat.

The Kunich resolution to impeach Bush lost 251-166 in the House today, but Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said “he’s not going to let his effort to impeach President Bush die a quiet death in committee.”

Bush-Cheney are becoming toxic in Republican circles, that is, those not beholden to Halliburton. The real “conservatives” know what these guys have done. The temperature is rising .

Kucinich closed a lot of doors for presidential pardons with these impeachment articles, since Bush cannot pardon anyone to prevent impeachment in the course of any investigation, which is in the Constitution.

Conyers closed the door on the favorite distraction of tyrants when things get hot: start another war. As with Iran. One-by-one the doors are closing and Bush-Cheney must feel the heat. The point may come when they will count themselves lucky to resign ahead of a war crimes trial.

“Impeachment highway overpass banner drop day” is the third Friday of the month throughout the summer.

Bush claims wartime powers in a war which by definition has “no end”, his words. Wartime powers to him means the authority to ignore the Fourth Amendment prohibition against spying, search and seizure without a warrant. Wartime powers to him means “enemy combatant”, the authority to hold you and me without a trial, forever. Question: what is the difference between these kinds of wartime powers and the permanent overthrow of the US Constitution? This is not the kind of subversion you just look the other way for and wait until they leave office. Our rights are being threatened more seriously than at any time since the Revolution.

Chances are Bush has committed treason by revealing secrets to the enemy in wartime on Plame, we’ll see what Scott McClellan says.

I heard a story on Memorial Day which shook me pretty badly, from the father of a Iraq veteran who committed suicide. It’s another reason I’ll never give up on impeachment of the ones who put our brave soldiers into that impossible situation. The father told it to a crowd from the podium at a Memorial Day service sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against the War.

His son had come home from Iraq and was badly damaged mentally, and tried to get psychiatric help at the VA hospital. They sent him home twice, without extended treatment, even though he told them exactly how he was going to kill himself. No help. One day he walked in the room and asked his father if he could sit in his lap, like a little boy. Finally his sister walked into his room one day and told him that nothing mattered except he was back, and that’s all that counted, and they were happy just for this and they loved him. The soldier said to his sister, “You wouldn’t say that if you knew what I had done.” A few days later his father found him dead, hanging. He cut his son down and cradled his dead son’s body in has lap for the last time.

No one in the large gathering had dry eyes as the father finished.

Impeach them both, right now.  First Cheney, then Bush, who’ll first have to appoint an interim VP under the 25th Amendment so we don’t get president Pelosi.  I like Chuck Hagel.  The we can have a fair election for once, so people around the world stop laughing that the mighty United States has become a banana republic with thugs stuffing ballot boxes like in Panama, electronically.  Whoever thought we’d need to send Jimmy Carter into his own country?

Washington Post: Kucinich Vows to Keep Up Impeachment Fight