From BallerStatus.com: Impeachment? Why the lack of support for Kucinich’s proposal? Is the dilemma our great nation faces not worse than Clinton’s infidelities? Do you support it? Or at this late point is it counterproductive?
Rep. Ellison: They certainly deserve to be impeached. They deserve it. They have it coming. They violated the law and really need to be held accountable. The fact is that if we filed for impeachment now given everything that’s already happened, based on what we know so far, it would consume the news cycle to the point where that’s all we’d be dealing with and talking about. I’m a little concerned that it might overshadow other things we have to do. I’m a little concerned about that, given the situation. But do they deserve it? Hell yeah! As a tactical matter, is it the right thing? Not at this point, but I’m not saying it’s not going to be the right thing. Depending on what happens with the Gonzales case, it could ripen up to be the path we have to pursue. I haven’t shut the door on it. At this point though, the American public is so used to this administration being involved in scandals that something Earth shattering would have to take place to even get a rise out of some. I’m just going to remain vigilant. We’re going to keep on pressing them and dropping subpoenas on them. We’re going to keep dragging these people in front of the committees and one of these days, if we get something concrete that can stick, we might have to go hard on impeachment. But at this point, I think most people want to see minimum wage increased and us out of the war. The problem is we can’t do everything all at once. (More)
As we say on our main page:
“And with unconstitutional Presidential Signing Statements, veto power, and the power of ‘Commander in Chief’ at his disposal, how do you think Congress is going to get anything accomplished without first impeaching Bush?
If your tire blows while you’re driving, do you stop to fix it? Or do you continue driving on your rim because to stop would take too much time?”
Send Ellison a Do-It-Yourself Impeachment to pressure him on this.
CV: Presidents can’t veto impeachment.
About the news cycle? I’m not willing to forgoe accountability by the most powerful man in the world so that americans don’t have to turn to page 2 of their newspaper to get the rest of the news.
I’ve never heard this phrase before: “it could ripen up to be the path we have to pursue” but what it means is, once we break the GOP lock that alows Bush to rule by veto, then we’ll have a shot at impeachment. ‘Til then it’s worse than pointless, it would fail and thereby let the Thugs walk.
And it would suck the air out of not only every news cycle but every minute that Congress is in session.
And it’s guaranteed to bring out the wingnut base in the next election cycle.
We can’t afford to lunge and miss.
If you aim at the Prince, you must kill the Prince.