MILT SHOOK ON IMPEACHMENT, PART II: IT'S ALL ABOUT PRINCIPLES!

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MILT SHOOK ON IMPEACHMENT, PART II: IT'S ALL ABOUT PRINCIPLES!

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So many actions by this administration rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that it's difficult to count them all. And we must do something about it. For six years, a rubber stamp Republican Congress neglected its oversight responsibilities, and the Democrats are now forced to play catch-up. This will be a condensed process, it will be an intense process, it will interfere with the presidential race, and it will cause all sorts of accusations to be thrown at Democrats; accusations of "partisan political theater" and trying to 'get' Bush and Cheney. But at this point, none of that matters. Much of what the government is allowed to do is based on precedent; and we cannot allow these people to set a precedent that allows a future administration to do the same sorts of things, and get away with it.

As I'll show in my next piece on impeachment, the drive to impeach these people is no longer the talk of a bunch of Commie leftist pinko liberals; a fair number of conservatives have joined us. And why not? This administration's actions transcend cheap partisan politics and labels. Every chance they get, these fools carve out an exception for themselves in every law they see, and they have issued a series of executive orders that are far more reminiscent of Saddam's Iraq than the land of the free and the home of the brave. In fact, Bush's last executive order, which is featured on this very blog, was issued July 17, and essentially asserts that the president (see, that’s the funny thing about executive orders, they're not president-specific) has the power to unilaterally decide that you are undermining the effort in Iraq and, without hearing, can just seize all of your assets.

Now, I know what many of you are thinking;

"I haven't done anything, so I have nothing to fear."

Those of you who believe that should know; the word "gullible" appears in no dictionary. Anywhere. You can go look; I'll wait.

If you give the government that kind of power, odds are they will use it. And if they take all of your assets, how do you plan to fight it? The wingnuts spent the 90s stalling as many Clinton-nominated judges as possible, and they spent the last six packing the courts with their own kind. Of course, it won't get that far, because you won't be able to afford a lawyer. You have no assets, remember? And keep in mind, wingnuts; the executive order doesn't expire when Bush leaves office. What if President Hillary decides to make the claim that everyone who has an assault weapon is aiding and abetting terrorism, because she's unilaterally decides that she wants to confiscate them, to make sure terrorists can't possibly get hold of them? Something tells me you'd probably want her impeached, and rightly so. And if President Obama ordered every preacher's assets taken, because he was sick of them ragging on gays, you'd be calling for his ouster, as well.

And you know what? We would be right there with you, because it's an abuse of power, no matter who's doing it. This may come as a shock to many on the right, but there are many issues that transcend simple politics, and which are simply either right or wrong, not right or left.

And right now, there is no excuse for not impeaching these people. The Constitution demands it.