April 13, 2007 at 13:36:37

Third largest newspaper in Vermont joins chorus calling Bush worst president in U.S. history and for impeachment

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During Watergate, H.W. Bush headed the Republican National Committee and did everything he could to keep Watergate quiet. In 1973, Bush even came up with a phony plan to divert attention by accusing the late Carmine Bellino, a committee investigator for the U.S. Senate committee investigating Watergate, of trying to bug the hotel where Nixon stayed preparing for the 1960 debates with JFK. The investigation into that lie and dirty trick went on for more than two months, causing delays in the Watergate committee's proceedings. Bellino was eventually cleared, but not before Bush almost helped derail the Watergate investigation.

This technique of devising a phony story, of blaming the other side for exactly what you are doing to divert attention, was perfected by the Bushes, by Rove, and by Lee Atwater, who ran Bush Sr.'s 1988 presidential campaign. Only one of those people has ever apologized for such dirty tactics - Atwater right before he died.

More voices are starting to agree W. Bush is the worst president in history, from Columbia University historian Eric Foner to Nobel Prize-winning economist George Akerlof. Most don't call for impeachment, but some like the Brattleboro Reformer do.

You can read the Brattleboro paper's excellent editorial here.

Then contact your representatives, local media and others to add your voice to the call for Bush's impeachment.

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Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. His latest book, "Born to Cheat: How Bush, Cheney, Rove & Co. Broke the Rules, From the Sandlot to the White House," debuted at the Take Back America conference in June 2007. More info on (more...)

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