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Without question, without any doubt.
Sure, she has a point about the republi-CONS turning a grave matter like IMPEACHMENT into piffle - over lies about a blowjob (!!!!). I submit that THIS case would reactivate and re-elevate IMPEACHMENT to the intensely serious and consequential punitive step it was meant to be. We can rehabilitate the concept of IMPEACHMENT by using it like you'd use any serious tool or weapon - with wisdom and circumspection - and only when necessary and earned. Which this is.
And I frankly don't care if cheney assumes power. First: it'll only be briefly. Second: it'll probably do him in, physically. Third: if there's one thing cheney hates, it's having to operate in the sunshine, out in the open where everybody's watching and it's almost impossible to hide. He's happiest when he's maneuvering from the shadows and behind the curtains and the closed doors and under the rocks from which he seldom is forced to crawl out. So let's plunk him straight down into that center stage seat, 'eh? Fourth: the entire IMPEACHMENT process would so demoralize and tizzi-fy the enemy that they'd be good for little else. It would help the efforts to set them back for a generation. Fifth: it NEEDS to be on bush's record. It just needs to be there. He needs to have that blot, as well as all others, because THAT ONE is hard to avoid by the historians - no matter what their slant. Justice NEEDS to be served. The message NEEDS to be sent. Like Nixon, bush and his buddies need a strong, hard kick in the teeth to get it through to them - that NOT A ONE OF THEM IS ABOVE THE LAW. It just simply NEEDS to happen to restore our self-respect - for our own sakes as a nation, and for our own standing in the world. The message we send by NOT IMPEACHING is much worse, more bitter, and far less admirable about us as a people, than if we went through with it. We'll be the ones who were okay with letting the bad guy get away unpunished, unaccountable, and (in many people's minds) vindicated. To me, at least, THAT one is just NOT an option. Nor is point-the-sixth: IMPEACHING this SOB is the ONLY way to ensure that all those sons and daughters of ours (and other precious loved ones) who were slaughtered in Iraq so this jackass could swagger around with a stuffed codpiece and play tough-guy - will NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN. To let him go unpunished is the ultimate sin - even worse, in my opinion, than the many sins he has committed.
As a nation, with any self-respect left, this is something that we CANNOT ignore, neglect, or shy away from. It would be the MOST gross dereliction of duty to let him get away with this unpunished and unaccountable. Again - if that happens, there will be legions of assholes and Pox "news" afficionadoes who will read that as "bush was right."
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