Jonathan Turley on "Countdown": The Impeachment of George Bush (C&L video)

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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/10/countdown-the-impeachment-of-george-w-bush/

Olbermann: “I’ve often argued here, that even if you don’t think the words aren’t lead to any actions, say the words anyway, simply to get them on the record for history and simply because, nothing has ever changed from bad to good in this country without somebody first saying, this is bad. Assess the importance of what Dennis Kucinich did last night.”

Turley: “You know, it is very important. The fact is, that this is not supposed to happen the way it’s happened in the last seven years. The framers, I think, would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment. I mean, they created a system that was essentially idiot-proof, and God knows we’ve put that to the test in the past few years, but I don’t think they anticipated that so many members of the opposition would stand quietly in the face of clear presidential crimes.”

(This part comes from my own (8-Y-N's) transcription): "But I don’t think they ever anticipated that so many members of the opposition would stand quietly in the face of clear presidential crimes. And it has many of us who study the Constitution quite worried that we have a real crisis here. This is not something that was supposed to happen."

It's all politics & no principle, said Turley, & I agree.

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1. The crimes of Bush could not have happened without

This snake in the grass, complicit Congress.

Sucking up to the family-raping Oil Companies. Getting their pretty pictures taken with George.

Keeping it off their dainty little table.

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2. Thanks for kicking this -- Turley was dead on, wasn't he?

[Raster]

You are absolutely correct. Collaborators in Congress.

When future generations look back on the absolute travesty that was the cheney*/bush* mis-administration, a complicit Congress will be identified as accomplices and collaborators.

Turley's analysis of the situation was devastating and disheartening. Our government--Congress, the Courts and the Executive--have failed this country and its citizens miserably.

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3. Self-delete.