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Commemorating 9-11 by Impeaching the President

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It simply cannot be allowed for a president to commit the broad array of crimes against the Constitution and the People of the United States that President Bush has already committed, and for there to be no effort to impeach him. To allow that travesty to happen would not only be an affront to the memory of the Founding Fathers (and of those who died on 9-11, in whose names most of these crimes have so cynically been committed). It would also condemn us to a future in which subsequent presidents of both parties could commit the same crimes with impunity, citing the Bush presidency as a precedent.

Take just one crime--the use of signing statements to invalidate acts of Congress. If a Democratic Congress were not to impeach on this issue, and were to allow the president to continue with this abuse of his power, not one significant piece of Democratic legislation could pass into law without the president doctoring it to fit his own political needs and views. Moreover, a future president--say Hillary Clinton or Russ Feingold--could use the same tactic to invalidate laws passed by some future Republican Congress.

There are less than two months remaining before the November congressional election, at which all members of the House and a third of the members of the Senate must face the voters. The American people owe it to themselves, to the founders, to the victims of 9-11 and to all the American soldiers who have died over the years fighting to defend America and the Constitution, to ensure that: 1) Democrats are given control of the House of Representatives, and 2) their own representative, whether Democrat or Republican, understands that this president is a serial Constitutional criminal who must be brought to justice.

That will be the best commemoration of 9-11: That we Americans finally stood up as citizens of a great republic and demanded that our country survive not just the threat of terror from without, but the even more serious threat of tyranny from within.

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