Can we impeach him now? by Carol Wolman

Can we impeach him now?

by Carol Wolman

Luke 1:  ⁵²He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

 

Bush's contempt for truth, the law, and the Constitution which he pledged to uphold has been apparent since the day he took office.  He has committed more impeachable offenses than one can count:-  not preventing 9-11, covering it up, lying about Iraq's WMDs, invading Iraq illegally, using illegal weapons like radioactive weaponry and napalm, torturing prisoners, flouting the Geneva Convention, lying to Congress about the cost of Medicare "reform", not investigating the Valerie Plame scandal- the list goes on and on.

 

When the Abu Ghraib photos surfaced last summer, the shock and outrage in this country were great enough to have launched an impeachment movement.  Kerry quickly squelched this impulse, and diverted the energy into his pseudo campaign.  This made Kerry's betrayal, his refusal to challenge the rigged voting machines, all the more bitter. He is part of the ruling class, which is aware of the simmering discontent of the populace, and has been cleverly guiding it into acceptable channels.

 

Now anger at Bush is starting to build again.  It is coming from several directions- Amnesty International, in the form of lawsuits, outrage in the Senate over the pressure to confirm the despicable John Bolton, disarray in the House over Tom DeLay's breathtakingly shameless corruption, disaffected civil servants, especially in the intelligence community, and again, from the general public, as the mess in Iraq drags on and on. 

 

Three weeks ago, a "smoking gun" presented itself, in the form of a secret memo released in the British press, which proved that Bush cooked the intelligence books in order to justify a preplanned invasion of Iraq.  He knew he was lying about WMDs, lying to the people, to the Congress, to the UN.  And if he didn't, he should have.  The buck stops on his desk.

 

The intrepid ranking member of the House Judicial Committee, John Conyers, the same John Conyers who insisted on hearings regarding the accuracy of the Ohio vote last November, shot off a letter to Bush, demanding an explanation for the British memo.  The Conyers letter was cosigned by 88 Representatives.  This is the first step in bringing impeachment proceedings against the president.  Conyers is collecting signatures from the public, at www.johnconyers.com

 

I recently attended a talk by George Lakoff on reframing. 

I asked him how we can reframe the national dialogue from one of opposing world views, to one of aggrieved citizens demanding impeachment.  He replied, "You need a delivery system and a chorus".

 

Let's do it.  Let's be both the delivery system and the chorus demanding impeachment, each of us.  Let's overthrow this band of crooks and take our country back.

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman