Impeachment now.Like millions of other Americans, I was thrilled by the November election results. My enthusiasm was tempered quickly, however, by the nearly instantaneous statements by both future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and DNC DNC Democratic National Committee DNC Democratic National Convention DNC Do Not Call DNC Delaware North Companies DNC Domain Name Commissioner DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Do Not Change DNC Does Not Compute DNC Digital Nautical Chart Chairman Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. that impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. was off the table. This is a serious misreading MISREADING, contracts. When a deed is read falsely to an illiterate or blind man, who is a party to it, such false reading amounts to a fraud, because the contract never had the assent of both parties. 5 Co. 19; 6 East, R. 309; Dane's Ab. c. 86, a, 3, Sec. 7; 2 John. R. 404; 12 John. R. of the temper of this nation. The votes cast were angry votes. They were a call for accountability. They were a call for justice. There are 650,000 dead Iraqi civilians--men, women, and children--and 3,000 dead American soldiers who also demand accountability. Now is not the time for appeasement appeasement Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation in order to prevent war. The prime example is Britain's policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s. . It is understandable that Pelosi and Dean want to focus on constructive activity, considering the six long years of neglect by the do-nothing Republican Congress. They have apparently decided that these domestic issues are too important to allow a divisive, bitter impeachment process to go forward. But they are wrong. It is Congress's responsibility, it is its duty, to respond to criminal activity flowing from the Executive Branch. What Bush and Cheney have done is without a doubt impeachable im·peach·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of being impeached: venal, impeachable public servants. 2. Being such as to warrant impeachment: an impeachable offense. . Serious crimes against our country's democracy have been committed, and they need to be punished, in no uncertain terms. An object lesson is in order. Future would-be tyrants need to understand that our country will not tolerate this type of arrogant leadership style that disregards the Constitution. I call on The Progressive to come out strongly for impeachment proceedings. Thad Woodman Westerville, Ohio Editor's note: We have done so, and will continue to do so. |
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