High Noon for Justice and the Rule of Law - A BuzzFlash Editorial

[kpete]

High Noon for Justice and the Rule of Law
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There is no need anymore to investigate the Bush Adminsitration. Their chronic defiance of the rule of law -- even the legal requirements that they themselves have set up -- their defiance of the Constitution, their failure to implement laws passed by Congress, their perjury, their contempt for justice, their effort to subvert the voting system in the United States, their prosecution of a war based on lies -- these and so many more reasons compel the impeachment of Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Alberto Gonzales.

The Democrats in Congress may not have the votes to prevail. (The Republicans will have to decide whether they stand up for America or stand with a cabal of crooks.) But, in their lack of effective action, the Democrats are condoning the violation of our nation's most basic governmental glue: the Constitution and the rule of law.

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This is not a question of Capitol Hill vote counting; it is a question of whether we are going to continue to collectively accept that our legal system holds people accountable for their behavior.

If not, let's stop pretending that we are a nation of laws, based on the precepts of a Constitution.

The Democrats are not responsible for the actions of this rogue, criminal executive branch; but they are responsible for meeting it head on at "High Noon."

much more at:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/143

[ananda]

1. Actually..

.. the law and the Constitution are ready to be invoked
against anyone not toeing the Bushinc line.

Sue

[WillyT]

2. There It Is Right There... For BOTH Parties !!!

The Democrats in Congress may not have the votes to prevail. (The Republicans will have to decide whether they stand up for America or stand with a cabal of crooks.) But, in their lack of effective action, the Democrats are condoning the violation of our nation's most basic governmental glue: the Constitution and the rule of law.

Both parties are looking pretty bad at this moment in history.

:shrug:

[KoKo]

3. Says it all....plain and simple... Why make it complicated?

[depakid]

4. That's the long and short of it

and from any objective perspective, the Dem leadership is looking like an accessory after the fact.

[puebloknot]

5. "We don't have the votes" could become the Dems' epitaph...

...in 2008, if they don't get off their collective derriere and behave like the opposition party we thought we were voting for in November 2006. Caving on every issue is not a Dem kind of thing to do.

[mmonk]

7. They really don't have to have the votes for removal

as I see it. But they really need to vote in the House on impeachment. Then 08 would be about all those crimes being defended by the republicans and Lieberman in the Senate. My estimation, that would be when the republicans cave and we actually do get conviction by the Senate. The problem though, are democrats in the House. They have the numbers if they voted together. Everybody can count. Some responsibility lies with our party as much as we'd all like to say its just the republicans that stand by the administration's crimes. It makes it so we can't say that.

[puebloknot]

9. Quite right. Fear of jumping in the pool because you're not sure...

...you're a good enough swimmer is not the stuff of Olympic champions.

The Democrats are making themselves complicit in Bushco's crimes every time they cave on legislation, refuse to filibuster, suck up to Dubya out of a wish to avoid looking too stridently partisan.

By starting impeachment proceedings, the whole country would have an "in your face" exposure to what, exactly, this rogue administration has been up to while they were playing video games. To be fair, even those who have *tried* to become informed have had only MSM to inform them, unless they know where to go on the Net. It would be hard for MSM to avoid covering an impeachment proceeding. Not saying they wouldn't pull a rabbit out of a hat and do it, however! :(

Removal is a secondary issue. Failure to vote for removal makes a permanent and public record of what every member of Congress "did in the War, Daddy"!

[WillyT]

8. A DU-Like Tombstone, With "We Didn't Have The Votes" Engraved Across It...

:shrug:

[puebloknot]

10. And as a subtext...

"We didn't have the cajones"! :) :(

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

6. See, I believe ALL REPRESENTATIVES have a duty, a sworn oath, to uphold the,...

,...Constitution and the rule of law ESPECIALLY against those in positions of power abusing and violating both.

If the rule of law is not enforced against those in the highest offices who SWORE to protect the Constitution and rule of law, then we simply can NOT call this nation a democratic one. We can't!!!