[NYTr] Congressman DeFazio's Wrong-Headedness on Impeachment

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See earlier articles:
"DeFazio Cringes from Impeachment" - Jul 24, 2007
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070723/065925.html

"DeFazio Responds to Constituent Demanding Impeachment" Jul 26, 2007
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070723/066015.html


On DeFazio's Defense

by Simon McGuinness
July 26, 2007

DeFazio's defense is convincing, as far as it goes, but it may not be
convincing in 6 months time.  Correct me if I'm wrong but the point
about impeachment is that it is the only way that legal immunity can be
withdrawn from a US President.  Bush and Cheney belong in a war crimes
tribunal but they can never get there unless and until they are
impeached.  The process of impeachment is very long and even if the
numbers are not there now, that may not be the case in 3, 6 or 12 months
time.  

Even the rats eventually abandon a sinking ship.  They may be persuaded
to vote to impeach when the excrement hits the fan and they desperately
need scapegoats to allow them to stand for reelection.  Sure, the Senate
is acting like nothing is wrong, that's their job.  We know different.
When the army is defeated in the field or refuses to invade another
country or when the run on the dollar becomes a route or the stock
market goes belly-up, everything could change very quickly.  In those
circumstances an impeachment process winding its way through Congress
could take on a life of its own.

And DeFazio is wrong - there is no higher priority than getting Bush and
his henchmen out.  You can't kill 1 million people (and counting) and
get away with it, even if you are the US President.  Name one German
parliamentarian who tried to stop Hitler by passing motions of censure -
you can't because they were all classified as Nazi sympathizers after
the event.  

Bush has unleashed an unfolding holocaust with no end in sight, now, who
wants to debate the finer points of domestic health insurance reform?
Americans, and especially their public representatives, may be in some
advanced form of national psychological denial, debating insurance
policies, like fiddling whilst Rome burns, is merely evidence of
psychosis.  The rest of us are waiting on reality to dawn on the far
side of the Atlantic. 

Congress may think they can lose an illegal war, throw a whole region
into turmoil and unleash several generations of terrorists on the world
without consequence.  The rest of the world knows different.  The slow
motion collapse of the dollar and the instability in the markets is just
a taste of what is to come for the USA.

Make no mistake about it scapegoats will be required.  Set them up now,
congressman.

Simon McGuinness,
Dublin, Ireland.