Just A Quick Note...

You knew it was going to happen; people are starting to say that we ought to impeach President Bush.

Like these yahoos, and are you surprised the blue states are heavily represented?
The reasons, we're going to talk about, like so:

“The fraudulent basis on which the President got us into the war in Iraq;

Like what, Saddam having WMD and wanting to use them on us? Or was it

the obvious criminality of the warrantless wiretapping; indefinite detention in violation of the Constitution; torture as a part of indefinite detention and other ways; special rendition and torture, which is the outsourcing of torture...

Now, wait, didn't these same Congressmen vote for the USA-PATRIOT Act, which made all of that legal? Oh, yes they did, which makes this something called "passing the buck" by people who know what they're talking about. But this isn't important, because

All of these violate various laws of the US, and they also violate his oath office which he swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and he’s doing just the opposite, he’s undermining the Constitution and attempting to destroy certain parts of it,” Goodman said.

I hate to have to be the one to point this out, but the U. S. Constitution contains provisions on how to change itself; it isn't immutable. Plus, if you want the clauses of the USA-PATRIOT Act that violate it removed, the clauses YOU VOTED FOR, YOU BRAINLESS ASSHAT, all you have to do is sue someone over them and take the case to the Supreme Court. No way the warrantless searches and wiretaps will survive the test of Constitutionality, right? Then take 'em to court.

Now, remember how I'm always saying that you're mad about the wrong things? This is a prime example. Instead of being wrong about Iraq, and hollering loudly about the warantless searches and wiretaps while voting FOR the laws that make this legal, why don't you impeach the President for, oh, I don't know, violations of campaign finance law? Or, maybe, the fact that he has a blatant religious agenda, and is giving literally BILLIONS of tax dollars to faith-based charities, in direct contravention of the establishment clause? Or, maybe, the bribes, kickbacks, and general malfeasance of his corporate sponsors?

You see my problem here? This is just more of the same. The left isn't interested in actually removing him from office; they merely want to make a lot of noise without actually having to do anything. They know as well as anybody that an impeachment for the reasons cited above simply won't go anywhere; the special investigators will dick around for months and conclude that he acted within the scope of the law, and recommend - as Ken Starr did, with Clinton - that the laws be amended to make that kind of behavior illegal in the future. (Anybody curious, by the way, can email me and ask - I have an actual copy of the Starr Report, and I am more than willing to share.)

It's a damn shame that they're all in cahoots in Washington, despite how they try to portray themselves, because this President can, and should, be impeached for the very real illegal things he's done, and can and should be removed from office for those same malfeasances, and won't, because nobody's willing to challenge him on anything other than his own turf. Way to go, Washington politicoes!

Oh, one last little thing: were you curious who signed up for this, so you can not vote for them next time? Great! They are:

The current 30 total co-sponsors are Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Michael Capuano (D-MA), Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), Rep. John Olver (D-MA), Rep. Major Owens (D-NY), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN), Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA), Rep. John Tierney (D-MA), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA).

Thank them for me, won't you?