washingtonpost.com
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse.
By George McGovern
As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.
After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me.
Today I have made a different choice.
Of course, there seems to be little bipartisan support for impeachment. The political scene is marked by narrow and sometimes superficial partisanship, especially among Republicans, and a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians. So the chances of a bipartisan impeachment and conviction are not promising.
But what are the facts?
Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly “high crimes and misdemeanors,” to use the constitutional standard.
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McGovern called for the end of the “unwinnable” Vietnam War and called the Nixon Administration corrupt.
In both instances, history has proven him correct.
Nixon won 49 of 50 states in a reelection landslide and within a year and a half had resigned in shame – his corruption exposed.
Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion! Whoopee!
George McGovern, political genius!
You just have to love Wayne, first poster’s comment:
“Now if we could find the moral outrage to put him and a lot of others before a firing squad the some good might come of his reign. Our moral posturings might even be believable. I guess it’s good that America has no real way to deal justly with a really bad politician. We get them just like Romania does, but we’re civilized and don’t put them before a brick wall.”
That, folks, is liberal logic….Here, let me translate…”I want to kill Bush, but somebody might confuse me with a Romanian, and we know all Romanians are uncivilized, besides I don’t have the balls to back my moral convictions.”
Welcome to Pudknocker City.
It’s never too late to impeach. This is a statement for history and our government. They must know that this type of behaviors are NOT acceptable and will NOT be tolerated.
Lolz you got beat by Nixon. Also in response to this quote below.
“But what are the facts?
Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly “high crimes and misdemeanors,” to use the constitutional standard.”
Citations? Examples? Evidence? You lack them all. As well as testicles.
The list of grievances is quite long, from torture and squashing our rights, to blatant war profiteering.
Sign the petition of three house judiciary committee members:
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/
I also recommend Naomi Wolf’s excellent book:
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
Ten steps to closing down an open society, which she has documented from several past cases, such as Russia, Italy, Germany and Chile, and now to this administration. It starts slowly, with a frightening enemy. To Stalin, it was capitalist sleeper cells. To follow in several ways, rights are taken away to ensure security.
Thank you, Senator. Better late than not at all. In addition to high crimes and misdemeanors, I believe that prudent investigation will expose evidence of treason. Certainly both the President and Vice-President would be warmly recieved in The Hague. Save America, Save the Constitutuion. Impeach and Convict.
It’s too late to impeach him. It’d be no better than shutting the barn door after the cows done got out. If they wanted to impeach him it should have been done in his first year- he was just as much of an nincompoop then as he is now. He’s done his damage now. Short of a firing squad he’s done done it. Might as well let him go on to private life where no doubt he will be a behind the scenes nincompoop and trouble maker and keep on making a very lucrative living. That’s the American way isn’t it? Now if we could find the moral outrage to put him and a lot of others before a firing squad the some good might come of his reign. Our moral posturings might even be believable. I guess it’s good that America has no real way to deal justly with a really bad politician. We get them just like Romania does, but we’re civilized and don’t put them before a brick wall. I think Bush and his followers have thumbed their noses at the very concept of a democracy. I think they continue to do so. They’re horrible and disgustingly wrong-minded but unless we start shooting in the streets we’ve got to deal with them within the confines of a democratic and stable society. I don’t think he should be impeached- I think he should have never been elected. It’s a sorry commentary upon the hearts and minds of so many Americans that he was. Their stupid opinions and stupid hearts got him in there and if they’re too stupid to realize they were stupid then they got what they deserved. People are such idiots. They let their prejudices and spites and biases, and most of all, their greed overrun their good sense.