Immediate Impeachment: The Only Way Out and Back!

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by Ted Lang

The reality of Vice President Dick Cheney’s unprecedented, awesome and totally illegal power and authority over the people of America, the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, and all bureaus and agencies of American government, serves not only to invalidate totally the Constitution and the very founding of the United States, but proves correct as well the fears the Founders voiced when recognizing the threat of political parties.

Identifying what is right or wrong with this country and its government no longer matters. Evaluating what is lawful and what is not is now devoid of both a system of recognition and a remedy. Attacking what is constitutional and what is not is now irrelevant; “it’s just a goddamned piece of paper.” Healing and corrective measures available to repair severely damaged and crippled government functions are overridden by concerns of resultant political fallout and posturing.

For whatever reason, the Washington Post chose, in allowing its staff writers, Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, to launch their four-part series exposing Dick Cheney as America’s first functioning dictator, to open the door to Bruce Fein’s call for Cheney’s impeachment in his editorial posted in Slate. Fein and the Post have legitimized and given substance to Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s House Resolution calling for just that action.

And in his July 9th article published in The New Yorker commenting on the Post’s effort and appropriately entitled “The Darksider,” Hendrik Hertzberg’s opinion of Cheney’s Svengali-like domination of our clueless frat boy president is marvelously articulated: “The story of the scowling, scheming, domineering, silently sinister Vice-President and the spoiled, petted prince who becomes his plaything is irresistible—set in a pristine White House, played against an ominous, unseen background of violence and catastrophe, like distant thunder, and packed with drama, palace intrigue, and black comedy.”

After the Post’s series and Bruce Fein’s call for Cheney’s impeachment, augmented by and made all the more sobering given Fein’s legal credentials and constitutional knowledge, Cheney struck back immediately and obviously ordered boy Bush to commute I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence, which will undoubtedly pave the way for a full pardon. Bush admitted that “an individual in his administration” did indeed deliberately expose undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, thereby facilitating retaliation against her husband, Joseph Wilson IV, for his New York Times editorial letter exposing the fraudulent “intelligence” citing Iraq’s alleged Niger yellowcake activities. It is now painfully obvious that Cheney placed that line in Bush’s State of the Union Message, recalling the Vice President’s unrelenting pressure on the CIA to provide precisely that very justification for the Iraqi invasion and war.

rest at http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/072607Lang.shtml

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1. ...if not sooner! K*R n/t