Reply #1: Great! Too often people "don't bother" with their Repub Rep. . .

[pat_k]

. . .a big mistake. When we don't hit the Republicans as hard as the Dems, we are just enabling them to say "Well, I'm not hearing <whaterver> from my constitutions."

All the "I"s ultimately boil down to just one: Impeachment. Bush and Cheney have made it crystal clear that nothing short of removal will stop them; not even hitting them with the Congressional purse will do it. Bush said it all when he told us he'd be using the massive power of the American presidency as he pleases even if Barney is the only being on the planet that hasn't turned against him.

BTW, in re: case for impeachment. Torture and spying have already been investigated, and even adjudicated. They just need to draft articles and make the case in impeachment hearings. No "long painful process" they like to invoke to shut us up.

From http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Senator/10"> Rationalizing for Inaction on Impeachment:

. . .charges have already been investigated and even adjudicated. They have admitted violating FISA -- and have tried to "defend" it (mutually exclusively) by claiming inherent authority and congressional approval. GOP Senator Specter himself has already scoffed at the defense.

The (formerly) Supreme Court has already ruled in Hamdan that Geneva applies to Gitmo. Behind the Euphemedia smokescreen of tribunal tinkering lies the reality of the decision: Three Years of War Crimes had already been committed. Similarly, the lies about WMD that terrorized the nation into war are already "old news." There is no fig leaf left.