Gimme an "I", Gimme an "M"...

Back on July 21, 2005, in only my second blog entry, mine was a very lonely voice calling for the impeachment of the "president". I'm now happy to say I was just a little ahead of my time, as a new Zogby poll shows that a majority of Americans now support impeaching Bush for wiretapping by a margin of 52% to 43%. Back in July, I was musing that Bush must be investigated on the emerging Valerie Plame scandal and most likely the trail would lead to impeachment. I could just as easily been posing impeachment for creating a web of lies to justify a rush to war, or creating a web of lies (see a pattern here?!) to push through a prescription drug law that is a boondoggle for the pharmaceutical companies. Today, we can add impeachment articles for total incompetence (New Orleans), absence of compassion for those in need (New Orleans) and racism (New Orleans). The case for impeachment at this time based on the outrageous criminal wiretapping by an administration that believes it is above the law is best put by former congressman, Elizabeth Holtzman, who served four terms in Congress, where she played a key role in House impeachment proceedings against the last totally corrupt republican president, Richard Nixon: "the most recent revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)--and argued that, as Commander in Chief, he had the right in the interests of national security to override our country's laws--that I felt the same sinking feeling in my stomach as I did during Watergate. As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment of President Bush. A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law--and repeatedly violates the law--thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office." Have more beautiful words ever been written?!