A Southerner's Take On Impeachment

'LightningMan' is co-chair of our South Baldwin Democrats.
I wasn't able to attend last Sunday's meeting, but found his text at Daily Kos.

by LightningMan
Sun Feb 18, 2007 at 07:24:06 PM PST

This diary is the text of a speech I gave tonight for the South Baldwin Democrats in Alabama. It is quite an interesting group. About half and half Southerners and Yankees (ha ha) with an average age of about 60. We are few, but we are proud and we are growing.

The Constitutional Necessity of the Impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming today and I hope to give you what you paid for. My topic for tonight’s speech is the necessity, the Constitutional necessity, of the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. It’s a serious subject and it’s one that I have not approached lightly. Many of the things I will talk about tonight are relatively unheralded and thus virtually unknown to many folks. They’re unspoken about in the MSM. For instance, who here today has read the Downing St Memo? (show of hands "preaching to the choir line) Well, it’s proof of impeachable crimes by the Bush Admin. I’ll get into that more later. What I will try to present tonight is a view of the specific crimes that warrant impeachment and that are proven already to have been committed, along with some exploration of the underlying causes of why the Republican Party, the Regressive Party, have allowed this usurpation to happen.

I would like to have an open question and answer session after my talk, and though I may not know the answers to all your questions, I’ll do my best—and those of you here who might know the answer, feel free to speak up. I’d like for us to discuss this.

Another thing that I want you all to keep in mind is that every effort of this Government has been used—until Democrats took power less than two months ago--to suppress the truth about these issues. To spin the truth, to hide the truth and to spin the hiding of the truth. The reason is that Republicans are in favor of authoritarian government. They don't really trust the people. Democrats believe in people power.

The growing movement that is calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney is not radical. Rather it is Bush and Cheney and the neoconservative cabal they lead who are radical. A January 2006 poll by Zogby, the highly regarded non-partisan polling group, found Americans in favor of impeachment 52-42%. This was in the wake of the illegal wiretapping story. So this view is actually held by a majority of Americans.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/2/18/214849/324

The state party should snap this guy up, and make him communications director or something. Of course, DU'ers know this stuff, but I bet 90% of Alabamians, heck 90% of Americans, have no clue.

I hope you crossposted this in General Discussion.