My stomach is turning, as I watch all the "good will" being squirted around Washington like some cheap perfume. The scent is making me sick.
Like it, or not: visions of comparisons to Nixon and Clinton, or not:
We WILL be visiting extensive investigations in 2007, and possible prosecution of many members of the Bush Administration, because the facts once suppressed by the Republican Congress of criminal activities, facts now spoken in the halls of Congress will now force the issue of justice upon the House and then in the Senate.
No matter what Nancy Pelosi says, a whole universe of impeachable offenses are waiting to bubble up from open investigation and uncovering of facts - things that have been supressed by the Republican Congress, whistleblowers gagged, and evidence hidden, for nearly 6 years.
How soon it seems that all is forgotten {or is it forgiven?}; the Downing Street Memo, Cheney's Energy Task Force, suppressed evidence from Sibel Edmonds and a whole cadre of gagged of whistleblowers with facts will be like a tsunami of truth when Democrats take over in 2007.
The list of possible issues is not about lying to protect personal privacy in a sexual encounter, or about a 3rd rate break-in and cover up.
The list starts with Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, and influence peddling on a massive scale.
Members of the House and Senate will not be immune: the whistleblowers who were gagged by Republicans will soon be set free to speak up before Congress. The investigations into the widespread systemic Republican corruption in Congress will continue. There will be loyalties breached as the criminals implicate each other in a tidal wave that will go right into the very Offices of the WH.
It even affects my little state of New Hampshire, as the telephone jamming scandal of 2002 has legs that walk right into Ken Mehlman's and Karl Rove's Offices. Such a mundane thing, conspiracy to commit "interstate wire fraud", but yet, even that will have consequences. The people of NH told the Republicans what they thought, a few days back. The courts have yet to speak. And the voice of Congress may yet be heard about just this issue, as well.
It continues with a build up of false intelligence leading to war, as documented by the Downing Street Memo, and bolstered by many ex-administration officials. The twisting and distortion of treaties and laws, to allow horrendous crimes to be made in our name, the massive fraud and waste of tens of billions of dollars - these are not things to be scoffed at like a 3rd rate burglarly or a BJ.
Impeachment isn't a CHOICE.
If the facts, revealed by investigation warrant impeachment, it is a DUTY of Congress.
Impeachment is the culmination of the DUTY of Congress to persue all facts to get to the truth, and to prosecute those who are responsible.
Let's not forget that, in our attempt to allow George Bush to ingratiate himself with the 'Democrat Party', as our eyes glaze over, that this man and his cohorts are criminals.
UPDATE: As watch, the frame of liberals being losers and Democrats being weak is echoing throughout the media. The message of Nancy Pelosi is "no impeachment". That to me is amazing, since unless she can have access to evidence no one else has, the conclusion is premature.
The answer to that: Investigation. Justice. Impeachment. Conviction.
Nothing less will do.