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Conyers may push for Bush impeachment
While al Qaeda plots attacks on Americans, the political Left in the U.S. plots the impeachment of President Bush. The ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, demands a special committee be formed to "investigate impeaching" the president, and today he offers "kudos to my friend Liz Holtzman," a former Democratic congresswoman from New York, for penning The Nation magazine's current cover piece, "The Impeachment of George W. Bush." Ms. Holtzman writes:Mobilizing the nation and Congress in support of investigations and the impeachment of President Bush is a critical task that has already begun, but it must intensify and grow. The American people stopped the Vietnam War--against the wishes of the President--and forced a reluctant Congress to act on the impeachment of President Nixon. And they can do the same with President Bush. The task has three elements: building public and Congressional support, getting Congress to undertake investigations into various aspects of presidential misconduct and changing the party makeup of Congress in the 2006 elections. Drumming up public support means organizing rallies, spearheading letter-writing campaigns to newspapers, organizing petition drives, door-knocking in neighborhoods, handing out leaflets and deploying the full range of How about mobilizing a rally against bin Laden, Zarqawi & company? Nah. They have a bigger fish to fry. A short time ago, Sen. John McCain was asked about the "Bush lied us into war" line peddled by the anti-war crowd, including Ms. Holtzman, he responded: [I]t's a lie to say that the president lied to the American people. Will this crowd stop the "Bush lied" lie? Nah. It's part of their strategy to regain control of the House, so they can go after the president. As the editor of The Nation wrote: There are many reasons why it is crucial that the Democrats regain control of Congress in '06, but consider this one: If they do, there may be articles of impeachment introduced and the estimable John Conyers, who has led the fight to defend our constitution, would become Chair of the House Judiciary Committee. Wouldn't that be a truly just response to the real high crimes and misdemeanors that this lawbreaking president has so clearly committed? Fortunately, to paraphrase David Brooks in the New York Times today, voters are more interested in aggressively fighting the terrorists rather than the American counterterrorists. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-02-17 |
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