IMHO you’ve got the right aswner!

If George W. Bush was caught lying under oath about getting a blowjob from an underage boy, who later turned up dead, all the Re-thugs who voted to remove Clinton from office would vote for acquittal.

There are very few threads of decency left in the Republican party, and, like candles in the wind, they are going out.  In economic terms “good money is always driven out by bad”.

Their blatant hypocrisies show they are only in it for the power and the wealth, and to do that they must fool the ordinary guy and gal.

I see only lip service so far.
Impeachment has been talked about with valid reasoning for over 2 years. 
I have seen so many of this administration get away with unbelievably illegal activities. It’s like they have complete absolution from consequences or accountability.  It has been total partisan divide and yet we still have hesitation to pass legislation as the people request.  I have written my government representative and told her to “just vote the legislation” - if it is vetoed, so be.  At least this way, I can say that I felt represented and our elected officials can vote their way out of accountability for what history will write about this administration.

“Now this is the basis for judgement, that the light has come into the world but men have loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked. For he that practices vile things hates the light and does not come to the light, in order that his works may not be reproved. But he that does what is true comes to the light, in order that his works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God.” [Jesus Christ] John 3:19 - 3:21

Congress has responsible to oversee the executive branch, that is inherently comes with the ability to impeach. The founders did not allow for impeachment , without the ability to discover the merits of grounds for it?

The question for congress is, does tampering with the DOJ for the purposes of heading off corruption investigation an impeachable offence?  It maybe coming to the time to change this from just an investigation , into impeachment hearings. Especially if the White House stonewalls the current investigation.

Executive privilege - or royal privilege? Does the monarch with cowboy boots and no clothes (Trilling’s description) have a right to any privilege or duty not given him by the Constitution?  At what point does a republican become a neocon Bushie - is it because of a brain misfunction, a tumor, or what? Would there even be any question about this if Bush’s syncophants weren’t anxious for a royal honor themselves?

Karl Rove—-an Easter feast

Little pig face,  white little pigger, nice little wigger.

Hang ye upside down over the pit…spread pig legs, arms outstretched.

Upside down on a cross.  Upside down pigs smile’s a frown.

From the pit, portal of Hell, comes the Serpent, smile so vile.

Poor little piggy, fear gleams clear, as Snakes bile shrouds pigs guile.

Make and break your oaths with men.

The Devils contracts have no end.

Into the pit where Serpent waits.

There’s no escape from Hells embrace.

President Bush not only leads a party of hypocrites, as E.J. Dionne describes, but these authoritarians
—- re-define words (family values)
—- try to push our emotional buttons to get us to believe what they want (most sound bites we hear from them)
—- lie (Scooter Libby)
—- repeat messages endlessly and then deny having said them (We’ve never been about “Stay the course.”)
—- try to control the population (illegal spying on Americans)
—- allow people to suffer (Katrina)
—- practice cronyism (“Heckuva job, Bownie”)
—- keep as much information as possible secret (Dick Cheney’s energy task force)
—- deceive the public (WMD in Iraq)
—- abuse human rights (Abu Ghraib)
—- tarnish America’s image (torture)
—- encourage terrorism by fighting Arabs in Iraq yet accuse the Democrats of enabling terrorists (running ads about a coming nuclear attack if the Democrats are elected)

These are not good human beings.

Show trials… Let’s have real “show trials”, and they begin with the further investigations and impeachments of the criminals working in the White House. Let the first act begin with Albert “Lap Dog” Gonzales, followed by Karl “The Wicked Wizard” Rove. Next in line Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney (all apologies to George Lucas),and Tony “The Flying Mentirosa” Snow. And for the grand finale we have George “The Incompetent,Serial Murderer, Anti-Midas” Bush. Raise the curtains and let the show begin.

Bush needs to be sat down-or better yet, handcuffed & shackled down and have the Clintons tell him about partisan fishing expeditions and show trials.  A few words about rightful impeachment would be salutatory as well. . .

It matters not. When a president has his party in power he rules unobstructed and probably illegally. If he has a party of a different stripe every means of belittlement shall occur. The Repugs with Clinton and Dimmos with the shrub. Just that the Repugs play a better game than the Dimmos. And each and every time the K street boys are the winners. Notice the tax-break for the rich is in no danger of leaving, ponder that for awhile.

The quality of the advice the president receives would improve if all the advice he received and its sources were posted on the internet every evening.

The republicians looked over Bill Clinton’s shoulder all the time, now the time has come to look at the firing of 8 prosecutors, not because they could not be fired but were they fired because the corruption cases, the cases of voter abuses and on an on.

The real reason Bush is afraid to let his cronies under oath is a lot of lies will be uncovered.

I SAY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS AFRAID OF THE OPINION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND THERE WILL BE A LOUDER CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT, THE PROCESS SHOULD BEGIN NOW.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

There is no need to explore executive privilege. Late Friday Gonzales admitted he held meeting to fire attorneys. He commited perjury. Indict, or impeach. To hell with privilege, there is none to protect crimes, and criminals.

Let me get this straight - we are asking the criminals running this country to tell us the truth.
Politicians expecting the truth from other politicians, I think I just lost the rest of my supper. Thanks a lot.

The thing that should be kept in mind: lying and hypocrisy are not tactics of last resort for these cornered apparatchiks; they are the overarching strategy of this administration and its erstwhile rubber stamp congressional cronies.  With clear consciences, they blatantly lie and obfuscate as a matter of deliberate, premeditated, policy.  Why?  Because it works so well on an ill-informed public, as Hitler proved.  And they get away with it through well-worn rhetorical tricks, as Hitler did.  Tony Snow is the primary conduit for much of this Bush prevarication, just as Joseph Goebbels was for Hitler.

Bush said Tuesday he worried that allowing testimony under oath would set a precedent on the separation of powers that would harm the presidency as an institution.

OK. What exactly did Bush have in mind when he labeled the presidency as an institution?

Was he thinking of that kind of Institution ... That collects funds from the public and places them in financial assets, such as deposits, loans and bonds?

If so, someone needs to sit him down and explain to him, it is not the function of the office of president to collect funds from the public and determine where those funds shall go, let alone invest them or use them to acquire financial assets.

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All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ... The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes ... To borrow money ... To regulate commerce ... To coin money ...

He [the president] shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate ...

[See The Constitution of the United States.]

Perhaps Bush was thinking his institution was more like ... A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance?   

If so, that goes a long way to explaining why he’s had so much trouble correctly doing his job. And why he is quite incapable of understanding the consequence of his hubris. [Hubris: Excessive pride displayed by a character and often taking the form of a boastful comparison of the self to the divine.]

Or maybe Bush was simply seeing himself as ... One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.

Even more disturbing, because while it may feel like forever, Bush has only been in the White House for six years, two months and three days. (at this writing) Could the “long association with a specified place, position, or function” be an unconscious sense of entitlement based on the “royal” family Bush? If so, it’s time to transplant the Bush!

But, it may be much simpler.

Could be Bush was thinking his presidential establishment is ... A place for the care of persons who are destitute, disabled, or mentally ill.                                                              That one makes sense, because that’s how the White House under Bush policy looks from time to time.

Actually, almost all the time.

Utterly missing from news coverage were these retold words, “Truth, justice and the American Way.” The words and their meaning died from unchallenged enmity along with Captain America. Time for a heroic resurgence.

“Executive Privilege” will not mean sitting on American people heads then peeing down. It will also not mean to use nation’s mighty power for
individual benefits, to declare war with other countries through lying, to support puppet governments to invade the so-called hostile nations, to use stupid subordinates for self-claimed phantom glories….

“Executive Privilege” is only for those who know how to respect and follow the directives by all governmental branches.

And “Executive Privilege” will surely NOT for the criminal, immoral, illegal administration of Bush/Cheney !

So Mr. Bush believes that his aides’ actions are too private to be disclosed in public? 

Given the distance the oh-so-shocked, oh-so-moral levels the Republicans were willing to stoop to in investigating the Clintons’ personal lives, one can only imagine how illicit, immoral and disgusting the Bush/Gonzales/Rove/Miers shenanigans must be if they cannot be disclosed in front of a Congressional committee or in a family newspaper.

This administration seeks to trivialize this case by labeling it a “Show trial.”  Even a two-year-old could see through this.

Are we witnessing the new Congress showing courage and honor in getting to the truth of the many cases of corruption in the Bush-Cheney administration? Let’s hope so.

The American people now seem to realize that the faked intelligence used to invade Iraq, war profiteering and many other very troubling issues during the Bush-Cheney tenure need to be aggressively investigated.

The people will support Congress in conducting appropriate inquiries and hearings. It’s time to get started on a wide range of investigations. For more on this, the article below may be of interest:

“A serious Congressional inquiry on Iraq is necessary”

By Steve Hammons
Columnist, PopulistAmerica.com
Populist Party of America
December 24, 2006

http://www.populistamerica.com/a_serious_congressional_inquiry_on_iraq_is_necessary

Republicans lie like fish swim.

Behind the lies is lots & lots & lots of EVIDENCE and GUILT.

Digging for The Truth is God’s work.