The presidential Pandora’s Box
If you aren’t already alarmed by the monarchical overreach of the Bush/Cheney White House, visit this site and watch the video. It’s from Friday night’s episode of “Bill Moyers’ Journal” and features a conservative Republican and a liberal (and Democrat, I guess) jointly making a very strong case for impeaching Bush and Cheney. Their main thrust is not the malfeasance of the Bush Administration — evidence of which seems, well, unimpeachable. No, their main thrust is that we need to pursue impeachment now before this Pandora’s Box of limitless presidential power is passed on to someone else on January 20, 2009 and the idea of the unfettered executive becomes forever inculcated in our fragile democracy.
Watergate? The Gulf of Tonkin resolution? Errant fellatio and subsequent perjury? These were mere warmup acts. Watch the video and see if you don’t think the nation is threatened as never before.
And who, surprisingly, is newly culpable? Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has said impeachment is “off the table.” As one of the guests says, Nancy Pelosi is wrong and doesn’t understand her job.
We need to start by agitating her into action. Today.