This article makes some great arguments for impeachment, not that most of us need any more.

The Constitution states that the president and vice president can be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

If we do not impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, we establish that it is permissible for future presidents and vice presidents to deceive Congress and the public into futile wars, engage in widespread illegal spying on Americans, detain prisoners without charge, engage in torture, operate in secrecy and re fuse to execute laws passed by Congress. In writing the Constitution, our Founding Fathers chose impeachment as the primary check on federal officials who act as despots while in office. They had just removed a king and had no interest in replacing him with an elected one.

Have there been “high crimes and misdemeanors”? The Supreme Court found that the treatment of Guantánamo prisoners violated the Constitution and an appellate judge ruled that Bush’s secret wiretapping and electronic surveillance were a felony. Most of the administration’s offenses need no further investigation. Bush and Cheney are both on videotape admitting them. Others, such as the mishandling of the devastation of Hurricane Ka trina and the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison are visible to all. New offenses emerge daily, such as the refusal to honor Congressional subpoenas.

The point I think is that we almost HAVE to impeach Bush. If we do not, it demonstrates that our system of government is broken, it simply does not work. The whole idea of our Republic is that there are checks and balances that protect America from crazy dictator.

Perhaps the true genius of Karl Rove is to understand that the Congress and the Senate lack the courage or support to pull the trigger on an impeachment. And could this have been part of the plan all along?

And what do we demonstrate to the rest of the world? That if one of our elections is stolen we will simply suffer through four, or eight, years of insane policy making rather then upset the apple cart by trying to remove the interloper from office?

Our only hope of regaining control of our country, while there is still a country to regain, is to impeach George W. Bush, and place the rest of his cabinet in prison.