Impeachment Hearings: A Win is a Win

[Voice for Peace]

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Impeachment Hearings: A Win is a Win
Submitted by dlindorff on Wed, 2008-07-16 14:55. Activism General Discussion Impeachment Media
By Dave Lindorff

There are two ways to view the news that the House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on impeachable crimes by President George W. Bush.

One view would be that this is all a charade and that after all, it will not be a real impeachment hearing, but rather, simply a hearing into the impeachable crimes of the Bush administration. As committee Chair Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) put it, “We’re not doing impeachment, but he can talk about it.” Viewed that way, this is not such a big deal. Rep. Kucinich gets to make his case that the president is committing high crimes and misdemeanors and abuses of power and war crimes, but then Congressional Democrats will continue to ignore all the crimes as it has done since taking control of Congress in November 2006.

But a second way to view this is as a significant victory over the quisling Congressional leadership, which has been ducking its responsibility to defend the Constitution and to stand up for the rule of law not just since November 2006, but since the inception of the Bush/Cheney presidency.

I go for the second interpretation of events.

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[Youphemism]

1. You mean the congressional leadership that just passed FISA?

Sorry, it's the first view. They're going for votes.

[Alexander]

2. At least Dennis Kucinich is not being silenced this time.

At least Americans can watch C-SPAN now and hear the evidence for themselves, from Congress.

[Voice for Peace]

3. How history will name their names... a consideration

they may want to consider.