All of the evidence necessary to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney. The ball is in your court Congress.

The past year has seen the public exposure of enough evidence of old, ongoing, and new crimes, abuses of power, and impeachable offenses by George Bush and Dick Cheney that in any remotely representative democracy, these two thugs would be out of office and behind bars. The chief reason this does not shock us is that the same could be said, and was said, of each of the previous six years. It's been quite a millennium so far for Washington, D.C.

Some of us began this year expecting something different. We had worked to elect Democratic majorities in Congress so that we might move in the direction of impeachment. If we didn't get to impeachment right away, we thought, at least real investigations with the power of subpoena would push a reluctant Congress in the right direction. With House committees having come within a vote of starting investigations, with the Democrats having shut down the Senate to try to force an investigation, with Chairman-to-be John Conyers having published a book on Bush and Cheney's crimes and held unofficial hearings in the basement, we had reason to be hopeful.

We are, alas, forced to place our hopes in 2008. Some of the 2007 evidence below was exposed by Congress, but most of it was unearthed by book authors, bloggers, independent reporters, federal prosecutors, and the corporate media. With the Democratic majorities came a complete ban on congressional investigations of war lies (not to mention an end to serious efforts to end the occupation of Iraq). Other investigations proceeded cautiously and at a glacial pace - and with no ultimate objective, Speaker Nancy Pelosi having declared impeachment "off the table." It took over 4 months for the opposition party to issue its first subpoena. In June there was a minor burst of subpoenas. But it was quickly established that Bush, Cheney, Condi, and their underlings, would never comply with subpoenas, and that Bush would even (feloniously) order former staffers not to comply. The Democrats let it go at that and largely stopped trying to compel incriminating testimony. That the House Judiciary Committee had, a single generation back, passed an article of impeachment against a president for refusing a subpoena was buried in our national amnesia.

Impeachment of this President and his Vice President remains one of my fervent desires. (If you want to see just how Dick Cheney has profited from our war on terror go here.)

I simply feel that it is the only way to heal this country and to show the rest of the world that we are indeed a nation of laws.

Does anybody really believe that if this was a Democrat in office the Republicans would not have spent every resource at their command to bring him down? They proved that in their rush to impeach Clinton.

Sadly our Democrats lack the balls to actually proceed with a LEGAL and NECESSARY impeachment of this President. Which makes me simply feel ashamed to call myself a Democrat. As a matter of fact I may return to my Independent status after this election.

If you want me to be part of your organization, courage is the least of what I require from you.