RAWSTORY — A Detroit Free Press columnist argues that Congress shouldn’t let President Bush’s last two months in office go by without pressing for impeachment.
Rochelle Riley argues that immediate impeachment hearings would prevent Bush from issuing preemptive pardons for government officials accused of crimes and would prevent the president from further pursuing economy-wrecking deregulatory policies.
If Congress moves quickly and forces the president to focus on impeachment, then he won't have so much time to push through last-minute regulatory changes that will continue to hurt our country and our ideals. He already has pushed deregulation that would allow employers to talk directly with employees' doctors and allow power companies to build polluting facilities close to national parks.
Anyone worried that our congressional representatives can't tie their shoes and chew gum at the same time, or cannot focus on the economic crisis and impeachment hearings at the same time, will find that many answers to our economic and global defense problems will come from those hearings.
It’s unclear precisely how those two ideas can co-exist. Riley doesn’t explain how impeachment will prevent Bush from enacting his bad economic policies, while simultaneously not distracting Congress from developing its own economic policies.
It almost certainly doesn’t matter, though. Although Riley urges Congress to follow through with impeachment articles introduced earlier this year by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has maintained a strict opposition to beginning impeachment hearings.
So Bush can rest assured. In January, he will leave office, as scheduled, with simply the disapproval of more than two-thirds of the country, not the formal condemnation an impeachment trial would bring.
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NOT impeaching bush (or not even attempting to start impeachment proceedings against him) will set a dangerous precident. The U.S. will basically be saying, “If you are the President you can do whatever you like, but you only have 4-8 years to do it.”
There was a huge outcry from WASHINGTON D.C. when Nixon pulled his Watergate stunt, and yet barely a peep from D.C. this time around for the bush crimes. WTF?
I’m afraid the dems are going to just wave “bye-bye” and play the “out with the old, in with the new-that bush stuff is so yesterday-let’s move forward and not backward” game, and bush will ride off into the sunset with his spurs a jinglin’, heh-heh.
Agreed,remove this Burden,and the hero’s shall be the parties of impeach Bush/Cheney
who will restore are constitution.
impeach!
Lets get the process started. Just to be clear, he does not have to actually be in office, but it would help.
We are either a Nation of laws, or we are not.