Impeachment: Why Stop At Bush?

It appears that if we were to get serious about this impeachment thing, there could be a whole lot of impeaching going on.

Impeachment: Why Stop At Bush?
Robert Jensen
April 10, 2007

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That seems simple enough, but it also seems a bit unfair to pick on Bush alone. After all, no single person—not even the president of the United States—can undertake such massive crimes alone. Remember that the constitution also includes in the category of impeachable persons the “Vice President and all civil officers of the United States.” How deep into the bench of the Bush administration might we go? Cheney and Rice seem like obvious choices; Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell and Armitage would have been on the list before they left their posts. You all may have specific favorites you would want to add.

But I suggest we not stop with Bush and his cronies. If we want to truly change the direction of this
country, we should widen the discussion. Who else might deserve to be impeached

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As along as we have moved outside the strict constitutional framework, let’s imagine who else we might put on the list. Perhaps we shouldn’t stop with government officials. I’m a former journalist and a journalism professor, and it seems to me that maybe it’s time that we started impeachment proceedings against the corporate commercial news media. We may recall that journalists were an integral part of the creation of public support for the unlawful invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. These weren’t idiosyncratic failures of a few rogue journalists, but rather reflections of a systemic subordination to power.

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From corporate journalism we might look at the corporate sector more broadly—the corporations that profit from building the weapons of war, the corporations that profit from the contracts to rebuild after a war, those that provide private security, and those that win the right to exploit the resources of the subordinated societies. Lockheed Martin, Haliburton, Blackwater, ExxonMobil. Perhaps there should be corporate impeachment hearings proceedings.

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NGU.

:puke: 'Fruit' from a poisoned tree.

Felonious abuse of judicial authority, conspiracy to tamper with a federal election, obstruction of the vote count in a federal election, and the prosecutor's favorite catch-all: conduct unbecoming a federal judge, are all valid grounds for impeachment of a federal judge.

mandatory oversight of the Executive Branch as well. But this would require members of Congress to impeach themselves.

In general, I think a major clean out of our political system is going to be required in order to implement fixes. I'd like to see term limits, public financing of all campaigns, doing away with the lobbying industry for for profit corporations, while leaving some lobbying intact for groups that are non-profits.

We need to put serious ethics policies in place, and enforce them.

We need to hold members of Congress and elected officials to a higher standard, with stiffer penalties for wrongdoing. After all, they should know better, moreso than the average citizen, yet they get the breaks while the average dolt gets the shaft.

There's more, but I think this would be a good start.

And at the very least, Bush and Cheney need to be impeached immediately. I don't know what it's going to take for Congress to stick it on the table. I only hope the investigations currently underway will provide what's necessary to get the impeachment ball rolling.

work your way up to Bush. By the time it would be over, they all would be in jail.

not unless it STARTS at Cheney.

And I wish we could remove the Supreme Court appointees that were put in place by an illegitimate regime.

Their appointments were the product of a criminal fraud.

I like that idea and I think a lot of Americans are ready for it. People know they've been fed lies. They know that Bush had accomplices in getting this country to where it is today, the obvious ones like Limbaugh and FOX and the not so obvious ones. The other major networks both radio, TV and print have sold us out. There's a big time house cleaning and fumigating coming.