"Impeach Cheney First" Pass it on!

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Impeach Cheney First
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-05-02 08:17. Impeachment Process
By David Swanson

We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It's been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time. My attention has been called to it by the fact that Congresswoman and Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters is talking about it. See below.

I'm persuaded of thevalue of this approach for several reasons. Among activists who very much want impeachment, one can hear a long list of fears and concerns about how things might go wrong, how impeachment could help Republicans who come around and back it, how impeachment could take energy away from elections, etc. But by far the most common of the nonsensical fears one hears is this one: "Impeaching Bush would give us Cheney, who is worse."

By proposing to impeach Cheney first, we eliminate this fear.

I cannot conceive of a serious investigation, with subpoena power, of either Bush or Cheney that would not incriminate the other as well. If I'm right about this, then the whole debate over which of these two criminals to impeach first, in one sense, doesn't mean much. But for purposes of organizing activists today it means everything. We need as many people as possible – including those terrified by Cheney – to push for an impeachment investigation. This campaign, and an investigation itself, should we get one, serve educational and political purposes. They further discredit Bush and Cheney while helping to build an opposition.

Our choices are not between impeachment and elections but between both and neither. Polls suggest it will be very difficult to win elections without demanding impeachment.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling

Then the Repubs will have an incumbent VP which is usually a benefit

Of course Cheney should go first. In my speculative fantasy, Cheney leaves office, a consensus VP is
placed and then * gets nailed. But this is clearly the right way to do it.

Thanks you, highly RECOMMENDED.

And don't forget to provide your thoughts on a "national confidence vote" amendment that would let the states, not Congress, unelect the administration: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2607060&mesg_id=2607060

besides, the way they're connected at the hip even if it were only one of them being officially impeached, afterwards the evidence would be unignorable that the one still standing was equally culpable.

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