Impeach NOW. It is the ONLY moral option.

The DC Dems are hell-bent on "staying the course" of non-impeachment.

The Number 1 rationale invoked to defend their self-imposed "off the table" edict is that investigations will lead to impeachment.

When Martin Luther King said "we must come to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability" he could have been talking directly to Members of Congress who are escaping their personal responsibility to impeach by convincing themselves that impeachment will inevitably result if they simply carry on with oversight and investigation, business as usual.

Bush and Cheney are committing their war crimes and conducting their criminal domestic surveillance program in plain sight. Americans are torturing other human beings NOW. The case for impeachment is clear, compelling, and complete. It has been so for years.

Elected bodies, good government organizations, and countless individual citizens have examined the evidence and judged Bush and Cheney to be an intolerable our constitutional democracy. They are demanding impeachment, NOW.

When members of Congress refuse to introduce articles of impeachment for the crimes that are "hiding in plain sight," they effectively exonerate Bush and Cheney of those crimes and demonstrate contempt for the concerned citizens who are demanding action.

Dr. Partridge is far from alone in his claim that introducing articles of impeachment would be premature. But like the countless other investigation advocates, he does not tell us WHAT an investigation could possibly uncover that would be more egregious than the high crimes already proven in the public record.

The Constitution is under attack. Members of Congress are sworn to defend. They are armed and ready. They have a duty to formally accuse (draft Articles of Impeachment) and make the case. Each day that they delay, they are responsible for the harm that the Bush-Cheney White House inflicts on the nation and the world.

The Congressional oath to uphold the Constitution is not an oath to win -- it is an oath to fight -- to "support and defend." Fear of failure cannot excuse a Member of Congress from doing what duty demands.

The price of delay could be unimaginable

Time Is NOT on our side.

The price of delay could be unimaginable.

Any day we could see another terrorist attack; Bush could declare war on Iran or Syria or North Korea or Venezuela or even Haiti; or some completely unforeseen event could make it impossible to rescue our national soul for a long time to come.

Even when we move full steam ahead, we can be thwarted by events.

On September 10, 2001, there were many signs that sanity was returning. The number who believed Florida was stolen had passed 50%. Bush's approval was continuing the steady downward slide that started the day he was inaugurated. A coalition led by Democrats.com that included the National Lawyers Guild and Vincent Bugliosi was about to announce their "fall offensive" -- a campaign that that included the effort to see Scalia et al. impeached for Bush v. Gore.

Bush's claims to any semblance of legitimacy were crumbling fast.

Then the sun came up on 9/11/2001. In the weeks that followed, the countless people who were horrified by the stolen election and Bush's incredible abuses were silenced in a nation that had seemingly gone mad.

Sanity is once again returning, but we must recognize how fragile the moment is.

by Patty Keeshan (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 2:43:33 AM
 

The greatest thing won by the Democrats

is the power to subpoena. Only time will tell if they will understand that their first and greatest task is to restore the democracy weakened by these neocons. I have much scepticism.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments) on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:18:52 AM