Comes former Presidential candidate George McGovern announcing his opinion that Bush and Cheney should be impeached. I find it interesting that he waited so long to say anything and, with the rest of the country mired in the 2008 race, why now?
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.
I don’t have an answer and he doesn’t ever give one. I certainly agree with him though and he provides some excellent evidence and a quote from the following person that is interesting.
As former representative Elizabeth Holtzman, who played a key role in the Nixon impeachment proceedings, wrote two years ago, “it wasn’t until the most recent revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — and argued that, as Commander in Chief, he had the right in the interests of national security to override our country’s laws — that I felt the same sinking feeling in my stomach as I did during Watergate. . . . A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law — and repeatedly violates the law — thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Unfortunately, I also agree with him that
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.
Oh well. It’s nice to see someone else with credibility (forget that fact that Kucinich keeps calling for their impeachment) stands up to say this.