Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Who's First on the Plank?

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - National Issues: "Impeach Cheney first
by David Swanson
May 2, 2006

We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It's been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time. My attention has been called to it by the fact that Congresswoman and Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters is talking about it. See below.

I'm persuaded of thevalue of this approach for several reasons. Among activists who very much want impeachment, one can hear a long list of fears and concerns about how things might go wrong, how impeachment could help Republicans who come around and back it, how impeachment could take energy away from elections, etc. But by far the most common of the nonsensical fears one hears is this one: 'Impeaching Bush would give us Cheney, who is worse.'

By proposing to impeach Cheney first, we eliminate this fear."

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