It's Time to Get Serious About Impeaching Bush

It's Time to Get Serious About Impeaching Bush
By NORMAN SOLOMON

If you think President Bush should be impeached, it's time to get serious.

We're facing huge obstacles -- and they have nothing to do with legal standards for impeachment. This is all about media and politics.

Five months into 2005, the movement to impeach Bush is very small. And three enormous factors weigh against it: 1) Republicans control Congress. 2) Most congressional Democrats are routinely gutless. 3) Big media outlets shun the idea that the president might really be a war criminal.

For now, we can't end the GOP's majority. But we could proceed to light a fire under congressional Democrats. And during the next several weeks, it's possible to have major impacts on news media by launching a massive educational and "agitational" campaign -- spotlighting the newly leaked Downing Street Memo and explaining why its significance must be pursued as a grave constitutional issue.

The leak of the memo weeks ago, providing minutes from a high-level meeting that Prime Minister Tony Blair held with aides in July 2002, may be the strongest evidence yet that Bush is guilty of an impeachable offense. As Rep. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, wrote in late May:

http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon05312005.html

He will be gone with little accomplished in his second term. Our attention should be on 2006 congressional elections. Trying to push congressional Democrats on this quixotic venture will potentially create a backlash, or at the very least, raise such a media ruckus that other messages (more important) to congressional victories will get buried.

It's a different story if McCain or some other rethugs take the lead and you know that ain't going to happen.

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You have both houses controlled by republicans.

I bet there is, they just haven't realized the good of the country (not to mention the world) is at stake.