Impeachment joke's on Bush

David Nason, New York correspondent
December 22, 2005

WHEN failed presidential candidate John Kerry quipped in a Washington bar last week that impeaching George W. Bush might be an option if the Democrats regained control of Congress at next year's mid-term elections, he was speaking in jest.

But that was before The New York Times revealed how the President had secretly authorised the National Security Agency to spy electronically on possibly thousands of US citizens without the court-sanctioned warrants needed to make such surveillance legal.

Now, with a furious debate raging over the extent of executive authority in the US and White House efforts to defuse the scandal becoming more and more desperate, the I-word is beginning to gain wider currency. Suddenly Senator Kerry's little joke is a joke no more.

On Tuesday, just as it emerged that Mr Bush had called Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller to a meeting at the Oval Office on December 6 and tried to persuade them not to run their story, Vice-President Dick Cheney took his turn at the White House barricade, telling reporters that executive power in the US had been eroded to the nation's detriment in the Watergate and Vietnam eras.
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Kerry cautions against immediate withdrawal from Vie... Iraq.

made DURING the Nixon presidency. His connections to the same group of power hungry fear mongers that existed back then are incredible. He was part of the Ford administration if I remember correctly. A plant by the "powers that be" during the Nixon administration as far as I can tell. Ford was extremely leary of him at first. I think he eventually felt Cheney was a necessary evil, but I don't think Ford ever fully trusted him.

I know Americans don't keep up on their history but this presidency is dejevu as far as I'm concerned. It's like they are deliberately trying to repeat the Nixon era because they didn't get it right the first time and they now have a House and Senate that would be unlikely to impeach and convict the all powerful CIC!

It's more than scary because they ARE succeeding where Nixon left off. They have already gone way beyond and I don't know how much further they are willing to go!