We are at a critical point on impeachment. The elected leadership is
afraid to challenge even this unprecedentedly unpopular president, who
continues to defy Senate and House subpoenas, continues to promote war
and to violate laws and treaties, and who is now conspiring with his
vice president to launch yet another, bigger, war against the nation of
Iran.
At the end of the day, if we get to January 19 without any
impeachment hearings, we may see Bush and Cheney depart Washington, we
may even see a Democratic president and a Congress with a significant
Democratic majority in both houses, but it will be a hollow victory.
The nation’s democracy will at that point have been left a smoking ruin.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His
latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006).
His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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