Reply #8: Not necessarily true. Things HAVE changed. Things ARE changing. [View All]

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IMPEACHMENT used to be absolutely verboten. Like a conceptual Lord Voldemort ("He Who Must Not Be Named") from the Harry Potter books. Time was when nobody even DARED bring it up in official circles. You just did NOT! Unpatriotic! Unamerican! Traitorous! Saddam-loving! Osama-enabling! Horrors! War on Terr!

Remember those days? They weren't all that long ago, either.

That's not the condition we are in now.

I just got a Zogby survey yesterday morning in which IMPEACHMENT was the first topic - and they devoted several questions to one's thoughts about the schmuck-in-chief. I've never seen that before. MoveOn.org just issued one, also. We now have a Congressman (Kucinich) who's not only broached the subject but introduced a bill in Congress. It has at least a couple of co-sponsors. There are IMPEACHMENT resolutions sprouting all over the country. More than, I believe it is, a dozen states have done so in at least one of their legislative bodies. In others, some of the local powers-that-be try to beat it down and it keeps coming back up. Another Congressman, John Murtha, now declares openly that he's hearing more and more from callers to his staff about IMPEACHMENT. Believe me, they ALL are. The floodwaters are RISING. It's becoming The Thing That Will Not Die. A fire that cannot be doused. A levee that doesn't stop leaking. Soon those trying to stop it will run out of fingers and toes and noses and whatever elses to stick into the holes to stop the leaking. This movement is not only not going away, it's gaining momentum. It's now become mainstream. It's in everyone's faces who's trying to stop or avoid or ignore it. For example, at the latest state Democratic Convention in San Diego, organizers set EVERY place at EVERY table at the big banquet with elegant cards printed with beautiful scrollwork that said "WE are the deciders. IMPEACHMENT IS ON THE TABLE." Nancy Pelosi was the guest of honor at that dinner. She's getting pounded. So are her lieutenants. So is everyone. Plus, I had one staffer in Henry Waxman's office tell me - when I called to urge him onward with his investigations and hearings to build a case for IMPEACHMENT - "that's what we're trying to do." The representatives are KEENLY aware of this. More painfully so every day. So are their staffers. So are their staffers' friends and relatives. So are the republi-CONS. It can't be hushed up, pushed down, sat on, or snuffed out any longer. A couple of years ago certainly. But not now.

And EVERY hearing that happens, EVERY new story in the Washington Post, EVERY fishy thing that turns up that seems somehow to route back directly to rove or cheney or elsewhere WITHIN the White House, EVERY additional American troop death reported in Iraq - EVERY ONE OF THESE THINGS WILL INCREASE THE MOMENTUM. And as the momentum increases, it gains speed and intensity and strength. It's alrady unstoppable. Soon it will run over those still trying to hold it back.

The floodwaters are rising. And bush and friends are the new New Orleans. WE are the new Katrina.

Which is why we CANNOT let up, or give up, now.