Alas, the status quo exists to perpetuate itself. The democrats have little incentive to clip the wings of the office of the president when they're likely to take over in a year.

The indictments and trials truly called for are so far-reaching, and the high crimes so heinous, that the simple impeachment of only the current federal heads of state is benign.

I am glad George McGovern sought fit to add his voice to the call for impeachment, but in the context of all that has been reported and revealed, impeachment of Cheney and Bush is nearly tantamount to exoneration for a greater mass crime perpetuated by many more than they. Indeed, it was as well perpetuated by our country itself as conformity supports what passivity enables.

The nature of evil is to be secret, and our status quo has a deeply secret history only beginning to come to light. What needs be righted is so gargantuan in proportion that to merely rail for impeachment almost serves this evil.

There is no court for all this, no authority to appeal to to sway the ongoing machine to cease, only us, the present populace of the planet, and we are beyond contained; we are culpable as well.

We are past that point. That moment of opportunity was last summer. The cowardly Democratic Congress spoke.

... that it is too late, or that it perhaps may serve evil.

Impeachment is a national confession that opens many paths to contrition, redemption, and lastly, justice.

Impeachment is not based on punishment, as I see it. It is to prevent further damage to the nation, and begin a process of rectification.

I support impeaching them even if out of office, which is entirely legal and, in my vew, necessary as a major step towards showing the rest of the world and ourselves that we repudiate, rebuke and with vehement disdain reject the Bush administration and all of its actions while in power.

They break both moral and codified law daring anyone to stop them. We need to take up that charge with such force as to make repetition unthinkable, and cast them down hard to make our position indisputable.

Start impeachment proceedings now and watch the stalling tactics. And you'll never get conviction. There's simply not enough time--the attention of the US electorate is already focused on the contest to see who'll be at 1600 Pennsylvania next.

Better to concentrate on the long-view strategy to severely restrict the powers of the Executive to make sure this sad story doesn't become a rerun.

We can survive one Bush and Cheney disaster, but a repeat just might do the Republic in.

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” - George W. Bush

to get the truth to serve. Just as an example, suppose there were an incident in the Middle East which could conceivably be used as a pretext to attack Iran or Syria.

The President in the midst of stalling an impeachment process would be in a lot less powerful position to start yet another war than he would be otherwise.

Similarly, whether or not the Office of the President was vacated, the investigation would still produce testimony which could serve as a basis for War Crimes trials later on.

In sum, it is not, and never will be, too late.

There is no statue of limitations on war crimes. See you in The Hague.

Bush/Cheney and corp. will claim "executive privileges" and walk away scott free.
They can get barbecued after the fact.
I don't agree with the Democrats, but I see their arguments.
Live with what we have and fight later.
A majority helps. As in at least 75% majority.
Once the Democrats get in to office they will have enough ammunition to blow them up.
The lies and deceits will be revealed.
Patience is not one thing that is in politics and journalism.

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for a direct-vote federal referendum bypassing the House, though popular inititive does exist in several of the states.

_{1."George Washington did not cross the Delaware for Capitalism," -Shmuley Boteach.
2.The Dems haven't punished the GOP enough, so you're going to reward the Republicans?}