Merry Impeachment!

These letters appeared in the Bucks County Courier Times this morning (as Andy Williams sings, "It's the most wonderful time of the year...").

In Pennsylvania, State Sen. Jim Ferlo has launched an impeachment petition campaign drive against President Bush. Next door in New Jersey, the North Jersey Impeach Group is working on state legislation for the same purpose.

Go on your computer to www.impeachbush.tv and you’ll see the proposal for impeachment. The real articles will be written by the House Judiciary Committee. President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Donald Rumsfeld is now gone; that’s progress in the right direction. Now we need to go after Bush and Cheney; they are the worst role models this country has ever seen. It is time and, yes, past time for every American citizen no matter what your political affiliation – all people that care about our Constitution, our American democracy and all our freedoms that we have had for more than two centuries – to demand that these two criminal usurpers in Washington, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, be called to account for their actions.

This is no time for Americans to analyze the pros and cons of impeachment. No member of Congress should be in office who does not support the articles of impeachment.

Phil Denny
Falls Township, PA

No administration in my lifetime has done more to undermine the people of the United States and our nation’s standing in the world community than Bush/Cheney.

It has hurt our volunteer military system and our National Guard and Reserves. It has sewn hatred and divisiveness within our nation; allowed torture as a legitimate tool for obtaining information from the innocent; it is responsible for the deaths of more than a half-million innocent Iraqis and for bankrupting America’s treasury!

You bet an impeachment investigation is warranted!

Dianne Shatin
Falls Township, PA

I admire Phil and Dianne’s sentiments, though I hasten to point out, in response to Dianne, that an impeachment is not an investigation; it is an actual trial presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The case for impeachment is without question as far as I’m concerned, but preparing the article(s) would require skillful legal reasoning, especially since “Judge J.R.” would look for every possible way to shoot any argument full of holes.

Still, though, in the spirit of the season, I’ve prepared the following carol…

Hark! Impeachment now we sing
No more Bush, he’s not a king
Once more he ignores our plea
And rejects the ISG
Our demand, we underscore
Send our troops home from this war
Redeploy as best we can
Emphasize Afghanistan
Hark! Impeachment now we sing
No more Bush, he’s not a king

One more fraud of yours, alas
Is war on the middle class
No more jobs this century
From your cuts in R&D
Millions without health care plead
Care for children, most in need
“Part D” seniors all cajole
Free us from the “donut hole”
Hark! Impeachment now we sing
No more Bush, he’s not a king

Still you spy through NSA
Congress told you it’s OK
Dems fault Repugs “oversight”
What a shame that they are right
Fraud and pilfering are back
In “reconstruction” of Iraq
Pack your bags ‘cos when you’re through
We will come for Cheney too
Hark! Impeachment now we sing
No more Bush, he’s not a king

And by the way, state Sen. Jim Ferlo is my new hero.

Update: Joseph A. Palermo at HuffPo provides a history lesson (and nice comment spelling on "sentamentality," RadicalRepublican).