The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens
George Bush -- an Unsatisfying Dictator
by Hilary Rosen
The outrage isn't the pardon (which is what we should call it), it's that this is the final piece of evidence that President Bush has written off the American people. Yet again despite overwhelming polls that showed the American people did not want the president to free Scooter Libby, he commuted his sentence. The President is operating like a dictator with 18 months to live. He said recently that history will judge him -- that he won't be judged until after he's dead. In effect he's saying he's accepted that this generation of Americans have rejected him. And he's telling the American people he won't listen -- we can't judge him because he won't let us. ....
The High Cost of Libby’s Silence
by Amy Goodman
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” says the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Unless, of course, you are a friend of the president. By commuting “Scooter” Libby’s sentence, President Bush is also protecting himself and Vice President Dick Cheney.
I asked former Ambassador Joe Wilson what he thought about the commutation. It was his 2003 opinion piece that refuted Bush’s claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa. In retaliation, the White House leaked the name of his wife, Valerie Plame, and her CIA identity. Wilson said, “It casts a cloud of suspicion over the president and begs the question whether the president is participating in an ongoing obstruction of justice and cover-up of criminal activity within the White House.” I asked him how: “By ensuring that Libby will have no incentive to talk with the special prosecutor.” ....
I Accuse You, Mr. Bush…
by Keith Olbermann
“I didn’t vote for him,” an American once said, “But he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”That-on this eve of the 4th of July-is the essence of this democracy, in 17 words. And that is what President Bush threw away yesterday in commuting the sentence of Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
The man who said those 17 words-improbably enough-was the actor John Wayne. And Wayne, an ultra-conservative, said them, when he learned of the hair’s-breadth election of John F. Kennedy instead of his personal favorite, Richard Nixon in 1960.
“I didn’t vote for him but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”
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We of this time-and our leaders in Congress, of both parties-must now live up to those standards which echo through our history: Pressure, negotiate, impeach-get you, Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney, two men who are now perilous to our Democracy, away from its helm.
For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9th, 1974.
Resign.
And give us someone-anyone-about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, “I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”
Put Impeachment Back On The Table
By: Nicole Belle
I admit it…I was slow to join the impeachment bandwagon. I just foresaw a circus of epic proportions, with the established media connections to the Republican noise machine giving us the disadvantage in public sentiments, perhaps dooming the effort. But with overwhelming evidence of a complete disregard for the rule of law to the point of near sociopathy, it’s hard not to come to any other conclusion than it’s time to quite seriously put impeachment back on the table......
