The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but not in Washington.
More than 70 cities and 14 state Democratic parties have urged impeachment or investigations that could lead to impeachment. The most common charge is that Bush manipulated intelligence to lead the country into the Iraq war. Other charges include spying on Americans and torturing suspected terrorists in violation of U.S. and international law.
Most recently, the Massachusetts Democratic Party voted to push impeachment of both men. The 2,500 state convention delegates voted almost unanimously against Cheney; the vote against Bush was closer.
Massachusetts’ Democratic Party thus joined 13 others on the investigate-or-impeach bandwagon, including: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin.
Among the cities and towns, the largest and most recent is Detroit, where the city council voted 7-0 this month to urge Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney for “intentionally misleading Congress and the public regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify the war.”
“There’s a lot growing in support,” said Tim Carpenter, the director of the liberal group Progressive Democrats of America. “Whether Congress will respond, that’s another question.”
These are our Congressmen and women and they are not listening to our demand for justice. We want to see this administration pay for their lies and the bullying that they have done to our people in an effort to get re-elected. Trotting out threats of terrorism to scare us into voting for them, tapping our phones to keep tabs on political enemies, breaking more laws then I could possibly name in one post, and destroying our credibility around the world.
If all of that is not enough to earn an impeachemnt then waht the hell is? Lying to get us into an illegal war? Oh wait, he did that one first!
If our politicians do not have the balls to take this President on then I may not have the balls to vote for them in the next election.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Don't feed the trolls!
It just goes directly to their thighs.