PUTTING IMPEACHMENT BACK ON THE TABLE

By Noah

Rep. Robert Wexler (FL-19), along with fellow Representatives Luis Gutierrez (IL-4) and Tammy Baldwin (WI-2), has created a website for all true patriots. The site is wexlerwantshearings.com. I urge all those who love America, regardless of party affiliation, go and sign the petition at the site. In an ideal world, it just might lead to our country repairing itself after the damage wrecked upon it by the biggest, vilest mafia it has ever had to endure. Logically, Wexler and his associates are calling for hearings on the behavior of Dick Cheney, currently masquerading as Vice President of the United States.

Wexler is calling for a fair look into "credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors". The charges relate to Cheney's actions in leading us into stopping the hunt for Bin Laden in order to unnecessarily invade and occupy Iraq, illegal wiretapping of American citizens, and his actions in the revealing of the identity of a covert U.S. agent for political purposes, thus endangering not only the agent, but the agent's contacts whose fate is unknown, and our country's intelligence web of security. The later charge is something that even former President George H. W. Bush has said is an act of TREASON. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has indicated that Cheney and his staff deliberately gave him false information about the matter. We may not have heard the last about the Valerie Plame Wilson affair after all. Wexler wants to call McClellan and other administration officials to Congress to testify.

Recent revelations about the N.I.E. and their conclusions on Iran's nuke capabilities indicate that the administration has yet again cooked up evidence of WMDs to suit their oily agenda. Many in the corporate media are, of course, promoting the absurd Repug talking point that all sixteen of our nations' intelligence agencies are somehow lying, together, in some sort of nefarious cahoots on the subject, when we know, sadly, that any two of them have trouble even communicating with each other on even more urgent matters like terrorists taking flying lessons right here in the U.S.

Back on November 7th, the House Of Representatives (the whole House, not just a committee) voted to send a resolution of impeachment of Darth Cheney to the House Judiciary Committee. Wexler, Gutierrez, and Baldwin are urging that the hearings begin now. You can help buttress their argument by signing their petition. They need our support in order to convince the cowardly among them, including their so-called leader and Bush/Cheney protector, Nancy Pelosi. Needless to say, both Republicans and Democrats voted to send the resolution to committee, even if for different reasons. Some disingenuous Republicans may live to regret their actions. Too bad. You see, honesty should be the best policy. Sure, that would be a new concept in Congress, but there's certainly room for improvement.

This is no blow job in the Oval Office. This is about murder, maiming, mayhem, war profiteering, AND the creation of new generations of terrorists that we will have to deal with for years to come. Sure Bush and Cheney and the puppet masters that program the thoughts of their none so blind as those who will not see followers don't care and don't have the empathy for us ordinary citizens to give a rat's ass. To them, it's "I got mine, Jack, and I want more, more, more. Then, give me more tax breaks so I can keep more, more, more while the peons die, for all we care."

Once more, here's the site. Thousands have already signed since yesterday. At the site, you can even link to Rep. Wexler's very articulate, well-reasoned Op-Ed piece that has been offered to the nation's "news"papers. So far, they have all refused to run it. No surprise there! Sign the petition. Start with Cheney. Then on to Bush. Remember, what's left of our Constitution still provides for the Impeachment, Conviction, and Imprisonment of people like Bush and Cheney, even after their terms are up. According to a November 13 poll done by American Research Group, a majority, 70%, of the American people feel that Cheney has abused his power. 43% say he should be removed from office right now and that's without impeachment even being on the front pages. Congress is always the last to know what's going on out in America. Let them know! Let them have it! Sure, it's a dream. Sure it's an ideal. But, it's a dream and ideal that this country was founded upon. The fish rots from the head. Nothing in our culture will get fixed until we fix this. We also need to do this to set an example for future clowns in government. I have always felt that letting Nixon off the hook in 1974 was a mistake and that someday it would lead to something even worse than Nixon. That day has come. That day is NOW.