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"AMY GOODMAN: Since last week, over 100,000 people have signed a petition on Congressman Wexler’s website supporting impeachment hearings. And we’re wondering, Congressman Conyers, now with your committee members taking up this issue, an issue that you actually long championed, what your feelings are today. Will you be supporting them in this?
REP. JOHN CONYERS: Well, no, but there are a lot of things that can and will be done.(*1) We’re documenting the transgressions and errors of the administration in the Department of Justice, which have led to the firing of nine US attorneys. We’re looking at the protections of the right to vote. The election is coming up. We’ve got to protect everybody’s right to get out here and make a choice and make sure that it’s counted.
AMY GOODMAN: Why stop short of hearings on impeachment?
REP. JOHN CONYERS: Well, because, unless we’re going to impeach the Vice President and the President within this space of time, I think we could be very seriously compromising the greatest important—most important thing, in addition to documenting any misdeeds that may have happened, whether we continue to have Bush enablers continue to shatter and tear the Constitution to shreds. And so, all of this, academically, (*2) is great. I’ve got a number of books from my friends (*3) about which articles would be best and which ones we should go after more. But it seems to me that the time element and also the feasibility of whether or not there is any possible chance of success—there is a very stark reality that with the corporatization of the media, we could end up with turning people who should be documented in history as making many profound errors and violating the Constitution from villains into victims. And those are the kinds of considerations that have entered my mind in thinking about this process, Amy. "
*1 Note. Conyers evades the pointed question. He offers consolation prizes and smaller deliverables to constituents who want their Constitution and their childrens Constitution defended.
*2 "Academically?" Conyers apparently thinks that upholding a personal oath when you are a Congressmen is academic. Imagine if young American servicemen and women in harms way took a similar attitude to upholding their own oath to the constitution. "What we have to patrol a road that contains IED's and risk snipper fire? because we took an oath at 18 years of age. To hell with that. How about we send you some nice photographs of us doing some great arms maintenance exercies back at base in Iraq instead mr congressmen and mr President?. We can't be too ready you know."
* 3. Perhaps Conyers needs to start losing a few friendships so that his friend's children have a better chance of keeping their constitution and growing up with the rule of law intact.
