Why Aren’t We Impeaching?
Dick Cheney has declared that the office of the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch of government and is therefor immune from oversight by the National Archives, and the President backs him up on this. This means that what Cheney does is kept secret from the American public forever. Cheney’s team attempted to get a provision in the presidential order that would have prevented the National Archives from appealing to the attorney general. The Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, was asked by the National Archives that he help resolve the matter but he refused to respond. Cheney’s office instead retaliated, recommending the National Archives office be disbanded.
Now, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel has introduced an amendment to cut funding for the Office of the Vice President from the bill that funds the executive branch. “The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch. However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules.”
Much of what went on at Abu Ghraib prison is also practiced at Gitmo, and it was Cheney who instituted practices that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says are “tantamount to torture” on prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay.
“Well before previous accounts have suggested,” Vice President Cheney “turned his attention to the practical business of crushing a captive’s will to resist. The vice president’s office played a central role in shattering limits on coercion in U.S. custody, commissioning and defending legal opinions that the Bush administration has since portrayed as the initiatives, months later, of lower-ranking officials.” Many of “the harsh measures he championed, and some of the broadest principles undergirding them, have survived intact but out of public view.”
Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson filed a sweeping federal civil lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney; his former chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby; and White House political strategist Karl Rove over what they charge was a conspiracy to intentionally expose Plame’s classified CIA job to reporters in 2003 to punish Wilson for questioning the administration’s rationale for invading Iraq.
Joe Wilson stated publicly that Bush’s claim that Saddam was trying to restart his nuclear program was unsupported by the evidence. Directly afterward, his wife was exposed as a CIA agent by Cheney’s office.
Dick Cheney was chairman of Halliburton. Halliburton was given an open and uncontested contract of uncounted billions of dollars to virtually run everthing in Iraq except the actual fighting. This is such an inexcusably blatant conflict of interest that he should have been impeached right there, and would have except for a Corporation-controlled President and a totally partisan Republican controlled (at the time) Congress that now enjoys a 14% approval rating, the most abysmally low rating ever recorded.
We have an Attorney General who is a liar and who is steadfastly backed by another liar, OUR PRESIDENT! Gonzales blocks any attempt to investigate the crimes of Bush, Rove and Cheney. How do we impeach, especially when the Republican Party has become so blinded by partisanship that they no longer stand up for what’s right for America? They’d better look ahead at the next elections and see their necks in the noose, because they are. It will be all over for all of them if they don’t act soon.
The only solution for us Americans is to vote the party of our choice and make damn sure that not one vote goes for an incumbent. Vote only for those who have never held public office. Get rid of every damned one of them and put new faces in office. “But they won’t know what they’re doing”, you say? That’s the idea! If they have enough savvy to run for office, that’s all they need.
How could we possibly do worse than we are now with what we have?
June 25th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Good question.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
http://instapundit.com/archives2/006575.php
IMPEACH CHENEY IF YOU WANT, but do bear in mind that he’ll preside over his own impeachment trial.
No, really. The Senate has the sole power to try impeachments. The Vice President is the President of the Senate. He presides. The Constitution provides for only one exception in cases of impeachment: “When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside.” That’s because of the obvious conflict-of-interest of having the VP preside when the President is tried. But there’s no similar provision for having someone else preside if the Vice President is impeached.
Presumably that’s because no one could imagine a Vice President doing anything significant enough to warrant impeachment, which was certainly an accurate reflection of the office’s character for the first two centuries or so of our nation’s history. And it’s another argument against the VP being given extensive executive responsibilities, now that I think of it.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Impeach? Oh my. I guess the founding fathers couldn’t think of everything.
Cheney’s excuse that he presides over the Senate is a very poor excuse. You would think he could have come up with something better than that.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Rasty, your gonna love this video i think;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHGnJS49OZU&NR=1
best,
G.
June 26th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for that contribution, BNP member. Ex-muslims who speak out, and say WHY they’re ex-muslims, are always a pleasure to watch. Islam is the fastest declining religion in the world, in spite of their claims otherwise. People are leaving it in droves. It’s nowhere near the 1.5 billion adherents they say it is and in fact is currently just under 1.1 billion and falling.
The fastest growing religions in the world are, in order, Wicca, Falun Gong and Christianity.
June 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Rasta, just to raise a smile–
Pre the last census in the UK, the fastest growing religion was “Jedi Knight”.
Of course, that was disallowed at the last census. (smile)
Sort of shows the contempt for Gov’t snooping, doesn’t it?
June 26th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Yes, and may the Force be with you!
June 26th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Praise Gods!
It’s a relief, know Evil Cult is the fastest declining religion in the world, in spite of their claims otherwise. And Christianity is among the fastest growing ones.
Gaia bless us!
June 27th, 2007 at 10:02 am
My hope would be that the fastest growing religion in the world would be none, but Jedi sounds good, no obvious tendencies to force everyone else into it and surely they don’t take it seriously. Ah! But has anyone checked what all these Jedi knights are up to recently? You never know.
On the main subject, just a great shame we cannot get any real democracy on either side of the pond.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:44 am
I got really pissed off when the government said we couldt be jedi knights. I thought, why the hell not who the hell are they to decide? there was a limit of like 50′000 or something, and by their own rules if there were more than 50′000 respondants saying they were such and such they had to include it. Well, they included scum who worship a paedophile, so why the hell not noble jedi knights? I was innocent back then - maybe it was my first stirrings of rebellion against the established order!
June 27th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Having seen Star Wars I thought Jedi was just a few allusions in a Sci-Fi film, not enough to fill a quarter of a page basically. They felt the force, carried light sabres and fought some bunch from the dark force. Full stop.
Have a look at Wikepedia for Jedi, and follow the links. This drivel really is being worked up into a full scale religion!!! Sure some religions have had an even flimsier basis.
Forget Muslims chaps, they are has beens, we need to concentrate on the new and coming menace!