Reply #17: "we don't have the votes" is a weak-ass excuse for doing nothing . . . [View All]

particularly when it comes to impeachment . . . the Constitution does NOT say that the Congress shall impeach for "high crimes and misdemeanors" ONLY if the votes are there! . . . impeachment is intended to stop executive excess and bring to light the crimes of office-holders . . . you impeach FIRST, then you get and present the evidence . . . given the massive amount of evidence against Bush/Cheney, by the time the particulars are read in the Senate, any senator voting not to impeach will be taking his or her political life in their hands . . .

I don't care if we have the votes, and neither should anyone else . . . this administration is a crime syndicate unlike any other in recent or distant memory . . . they have started wars illegally, killed or maimed millions, destroyed a sovereign nation, allowed the death of a major American city, illegally spied on American citizens, imprisoned people at their whim, institutionalized torture as a standard operating procedure, ransacked the U.S. Treasury for personal and corporate gain, put the country into debt that we will never recover from, revealed the identity of CIA operatives for political purposes, stolen elections, failed to fully investigate the greatest attack on the U.S. since Pearl Harbor, allowed the almost total deregulation of corporations and the consequent devastation of the environment, brought the economy close to collapse, decimated our armed services, permitted the establishment of mercenary armies both in Iraq and here at home - - - and on, and on, and on . . .

by NOT impeaching, the Congress is itself committing a crime of historic proportions while enabling BushCo to continue running roughshod over international law, U.S. law, and the citizenry of the United States . . . by failing to stop them, the Congress are co-conspirators who are neglecting their Constitutional responsibilities and who will one day be held accountable right along with Bush, Cheney, and their cohorts . . .

"we don't have the votes" is nothing but a cowardly cop-out . . . and a damned dangerous one at that . . .