Saturday, July 14, 2007

Should Congress Impeach Both NOW!!!

Are there any valid reasons out there for the impeachment of Bush & Cheney? I quite frankly have felt both should be impeached based upon their imperial and cavalier attitudes that have lead us into an unnessesary war for the benefit of a foreign government and the greed of some corporate companies. My emotional side said “dam the torpedos, full speed ahead”, go getum Nancy and stop this war.. However, my rational side said” we only have 1 1/2 years left, lets fight them on funding and any other basis we can rather than risking a tremendous turmoil for the country.
Then I watched Bill Moyers Journal on PBS 7/13/07. I was floored by the discussion Bill had with a journalist and a scholar. They provided me with the best reasons yet as to why BOTH Bush and Cheney need to be impeached NOW, before the end of their term. It has less to do with “them” and their imperial manner than with what they are doing to the Constitution of the U.S. and the precedents they are setting for the future. They are slowly shreding the Constitution leading us into future dictatorships by abrogating the oversight resposibilities of Congress. They alluded to the fact that this “enhancing” of powers by the Executive branch has been happening over the years by many administrations through the “Chiness water drop” method. It was hard for me to believe that previous admins. have also instigated such nefarious power grabs. I decided to do more research and discovered a piece by Bill Moyers done a few years back that details the historical progression of presidential power enhancement starting with Harry Truman in the 1940’s. This is an hour and a half video, well worth seeing the whole thing. Type the following URL into your browser.
http://brasschecktv.com/page/122.html

We should request ALL our representatives to view both of Moyers programs. If that doesn’t galvanize action, then citizen response will be required!!!!

1 comment:

TomCat said...

I have seen the video, and it's well worth watching. However, I doubt that any of our elected representatives will invest the time. Hell, they didn't even read the Patriot Act, before the voted.