The Raw Story reports that censure motions against Bush, Cheney and Gonzales have been introduced in the House (by Rep. Maurice Hinchley) and Senate (by Sen. Russ Feingold). Nineteen other representatives co-sponsor the House resolution, and so far only Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa has co-sponsored the Senate resolution.
It is simply not enough. A House resolution calling for the impeachment of Dick Cheney, introduced by Dennis Kucinich, already has 13 co-sponsors, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has stated publicly that if three more Representatives would join the resolution, he would introduce it to his committee.
“Off the table” is no longer an acceptable response to the calls for impeachment. When pressed, many members of Congress take the easy way out and say “it’s too late at this point to drag the nation through the messy business of impeachment”, which is cowardly at best and a total abrogation of their responsibilities to uphold the Constitution at worst. Censure is a half-measure, and, given the acquiescence of a large number of Democrats on the recent FISA bill, speaks only to the impotence of the Democratic leadership to fight back against the systematic gutting of the Constitution by the Bush Administration.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING short of a full impeachment and trial of the President, Vice President, and Attorney General on the floor of the Senate, in front of all the American people and the world, will suffice to restore the checks and balances of our system of government and to make clear once and for all the high crimes and misdemeanors of these men.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
