Not only for others to see, but for us to be able to face ourselves and our children and give them anything resembling a civilized heritage, we cannot allow this kind of egregious behavior to be accepted.

Sadly, achingly, the U.S. has been moving in a bad direction for decades with the complicity of both major political parties (if that were not true, this message would not be necessary).

It almost goes without saying that they have been co-opted by total corporate influence, giving us two flavors of corporate mindset and “logic” from which to choose. That is how we have gotten to this brink, our nation under seige by one faction, and enabled by the other who are embroiled in contradictory, unsatisfactory attempts at remedying it.

The first oligarchic faction has wholeheartedly been working for decades to subvert our Constitution, disrespect her people, undo America’s attempt at a social pact (the New Deal), to funnel her treasury into private hands, and to hijack our foreign policy and military.

If we should allow them continue in power without being at least charged with the crimes they commit daily just because we are near an election year, we will become MORALLY bankrupt and have nothing to pass on to our children. America will have died.

Both parties have already colluded to make elections nearly meaningless rituals that have little influence on power or actual policy.

While (free, fair) elections are (theoretically) to remedy bad policy, they are not meant to remedy blatant, deadly, subversive crimes. Impeachment is the appropriate means — as a first step — for that. Nothing else will do.

For our future, our planet, our dignity, our sanity, we must push this Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney!