So You Think You Want to Impeach?

[zengrifter]

Yes, I do. zg

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So You Think You Want to Impeach?

Book(s) Review By Tim Dickinson
November/December 2006 \ Mother Jones

The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism and Why It Must Be Applied to George W. Bush
By John Nichols
The New Press. 217 pages. $15.95.

Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
By Lewis Lapham
The New Press. 277 pages. $24.95.

The Case For Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush From Office
By David Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky
St. Martin's Press. 275 pages. $23.95.

Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
By the Center For Constitutional Rights
Melville House Publishing. 141 pages. $9.95.

The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Handbook for Concerned Citizens
By Elizabeth Holtzman and Cindy Cooper
Nation Books. 256 pages. $14.95.

ON OCTOBER 7, 2003, citizens of the world's fifth-largest economy swarmed to the ballot box to oust their feckless chief executive in a special recall election. The wellspring of their discontent? A fiscal emergency, linked to a bungled electricity crisis, which had left constituents sweltering in the dark. Vying for votes against a motley crew better suited for a season of hijinks on VH1's The Surreal Life—a midget, a porn star, a Greek millionairess, an ex-Mr. Universe—Governor Gray Davis was thus rudely ushered out of power and Arnold Schwarzenegger installed as commander in chief of a state reborn, in a guttural instant, as "Galifornia."

With the benefit of hindsight, it's now clear that the wrong politician got the boot for the Golden State's woes. The energy crisis had nothing to do with Davis, the tone-deaf technocrat. Instead, it was a criminal conspiracy by Enron to plunder state coffers with schemes so malevolent that company traders code-named their effort "The Death Star."

If dead men could tell tales, Ken Lay might now regale us with the secret back story of those infamous energy meetings in the White House—the ones whose opacity Vice President Dick Cheney defended all the way to the Supreme Court—and expose the role of the Bush administration in suborning that faux "crisis." At the time, our president laughed off calls to investigate market manipulation by his chief corporate benefactor, even as he used California's blackouts as cover for abandoning his most important campaign promise. "We're now in an energy crisis," Bush declared in the spring of 2001. "And that's why I decided to not have mandatory caps on CO2."

And perhaps, then, we as Americans would demand ultimate accountability. For if lying under oath about a sexual dalliance with a Botero-esque intern is an impeachable offense, so certainly would be administration complicity in the effort to (as one Enron trader put it so coarsely) "jam Grandma Millie…right up her asshole for ****ing $250 a megawatt hour."

But why limit ourselves to speculation about misdemeanors when the administration's high crimes are hiding in plain sight:

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[blackjackpro]

Politics Suck! It would be nice to have politicians that were not in it just for the power - a media that was not 93% democratic and were balanced and not biased - and more good legal highs. Not today...but maybe someday. Until then, long live the internet revolution and freedom.