So, I'm taking a break from cleaning for my big Christmas Eve gathering tonight, and moseyed over to see what news
Atrios had, and my good Lord, he had
this story posted:
Barron's editorial: Congress should consider impeaching Bush
The Barron's online story is behind subscription, but MyDD has posted it in it's entirety.
Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense. It is at least as impeachable as having a sexual escapade under the Oval Office desk and lying about it later. The members of the House Judiciary Committee who staged the impeachment of President Clinton ought to be as outraged at this situation. They ought to investigate it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that would change the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of impeachment.
It is important to be clear that an impeachment case, if it comes to that, would not be about wiretapping, or about a possible Constitutional right not to be wiretapped. It would be about the power of Congress to set wiretapping rules by law, and it is about the obligation of the president to follow the rules in the Acts that he and his predecessors signed into law.
They also want others held accountable:
Some ancillary responsibility, however, must be attached to those members of the House and Senate who were informed, inadequately, about the wiretapping and did nothing to regulate it. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, told Vice President Dick Cheney in 2003 that he was "unable to fully evaluate, much less endorse these activities." But the senator was so respectful of the administration's injunction of secrecy that he wrote it out in longhand rather than give it to someone to type. Only last week, after the cat was out of the bag, did he do what he should have done in 2003 -- make his misgivings public and demand more information.
Read the whole thing at MyDD.
A little background: Barron's is published by the conservative Wall Street Journal. There is absolutely no way they could be considered to have a liberal slant. So corporate bigwigs and business leaders will be reading about how Bush should be impeached. Lovely.
Merry Christmas.