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bigmacbear) wrote2007-10-12 07:24 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2007-10-12 07:24 pm
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I've had enough
Madam Speaker,
This afternoon I heard Ed Schultz sum up his interview with you on Tuesday in words to the effect that no matter what this excuse for an administration does, you will not pursue impeachment proceedings against the President or Vice-President.
With all due respect, Madam Speaker, this is a dereliction of the duty you assumed when you took the Congressional oath of office. There is only one remedy under the Constitution for an Executive Branch breach of its oath of office, and that is impeachment.
You also stated that ending the war is more important. I submit to you that the war will only end when two things happen: 1. the Congress simply withholds consent to any further expenditure on the war, and 2. the President and Vice-President are impeached. Anything less will only embolden them by proving they can act in violation of their Constitutional oaths without repercussion.
Madam Speaker, this country is already divided; impeachment cannot do any more harm than the atrocities already committed by this misadministration have done.
For the sake of the nation, the Constitution, and the Democratic Party, you must put impeachment back on the table. Doing so -- regardless of the ultimate outcome -- will put the President and his officials on notice that such violence to the Constitution will not be tolerated. Failure to even try will, I fear, lead not to terrorism but, God forbid, to the ultimate failure of Constitutional government -- i.e. despotic dictatorship -- which must inevitably lead to the Second American Revolution.
Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter.
Michael P. McManus
mike@bigmacbear.com
98056
This afternoon I heard Ed Schultz sum up his interview with you on Tuesday in words to the effect that no matter what this excuse for an administration does, you will not pursue impeachment proceedings against the President or Vice-President.
With all due respect, Madam Speaker, this is a dereliction of the duty you assumed when you took the Congressional oath of office. There is only one remedy under the Constitution for an Executive Branch breach of its oath of office, and that is impeachment.
You also stated that ending the war is more important. I submit to you that the war will only end when two things happen: 1. the Congress simply withholds consent to any further expenditure on the war, and 2. the President and Vice-President are impeached. Anything less will only embolden them by proving they can act in violation of their Constitutional oaths without repercussion.
Madam Speaker, this country is already divided; impeachment cannot do any more harm than the atrocities already committed by this misadministration have done.
For the sake of the nation, the Constitution, and the Democratic Party, you must put impeachment back on the table. Doing so -- regardless of the ultimate outcome -- will put the President and his officials on notice that such violence to the Constitution will not be tolerated. Failure to even try will, I fear, lead not to terrorism but, God forbid, to the ultimate failure of Constitutional government -- i.e. despotic dictatorship -- which must inevitably lead to the Second American Revolution.
Thanks for your prompt attention to this matter.
Michael P. McManus
mike@bigmacbear.com
98056
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I have had little regard for either of them for a long time now and have thoughts that are best left unsaid but I think you know where of I speak.
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Even if they stood up to Bush with everything they had, flooded the airwaves with their anger and faile, they would still seem like theyre fighting.
From here, they just roll over and let Bush do whatever he wants without a peep. That looks spineless. People HATE wimps and cowards and thats what the Dems look like and have for the last.. oh, decade.
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