Reply #9: Members of the House have a duty to act. NOW. [View All]

[pat_k]

Bush and Cheney are committing their war crimes and conducting their criminal surveillance program in plain sight.

Elected bodies, good government groups, and countless citizens have leveled the charges and have concluded that Bush and Cheney are an intolerable threat to our Constitution.

The case is clear, complete, and compelling.

Each day that Members of the House refuse to act -- to dismiss those charges or accuse (i.e., introduces articles of impeachment, make the case, and call on their colleagues to move to impeach) they are derelict in their sworn duty to defend the Constitution.

Their Constitutional function is to ACCUSE and put the charges before the Senate for final judgment. Unless they dismiss the charges as baseless, the danger to the Constitution is real.

The oath is an individual oath.

Their duty and individual duty.

Each and every Member of the House is willfully turning a blind eye each day that they adhere to Pelosi's "off the table" pledge.

"Can't win, so don't fight" is a http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2832600&mesg_id=2837018">DEADLY rationalization that the DC Dems have been invoking to justify their refusal to do what duty demands for decades.

No human being can predict the course of events until they are behind them. It is their place to BEGIN the process. It is not their place to predict an outcome in the Senate that no human being can know. It may never GET to the Senate.

Their oath is not an oath to win. It is not an oath to sit on their hands until the prognosticators who believe in their own omniscience tell them they will win. It is an oath to figh; to "support and defend".

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/12">Continuted. . .