In 1998, the people DIDN'T need to inspire Congress to impeach Bill
Clinton. The 105th Congress couldn't wait to throw the popular
President out of his job. In fact they impeached Bill Clinton even
though we-the-people implored them not to.
Of course, there were some Americans in 1998 who bought the
smear and destroy campaign by the rabid Republican spin-machine and
rabid Republican legislators to impeach Bill Clinton under the guise of
restoring the Presidency. These duped citizens were conned by
mainstream media's daily theatrics, directed by then-adulterer
Congressman Henry Hyde, then-adulterer Speaker Newt Gingrich, then
drug-addict Rush Limbaugh, future-indicted Congressman Tom Delay, and
Special Pornographer Kenneth Starr. (My apologies to Larry Flynt).
How ironic for Gingrich and Hyde that Clinton was caught with
his pants down just as they were dropping theirs. How further ironic
that the lynchpin asserting the case for Clinton's impeachment was Ken
Starr's obsessively compiled pornographic tome, whereas Americans today
have a virtual library of scholarly books on the Constitutional merits
of impeaching Bush and Cheney. Thanks to Mr. Starr's salacious expose,
it is likely his lurid accounting of a private consensual affair will
be his singular most powerful climax.
The fact is, during the 105th Congress's impeachment of Bill
Clinton, Clinton's public APPROVAL rating was a positive 73%.
Conversely, as the current 110th Congress takes NO action to impeach
George W. Bush, Bush's public
APPROVAL ratings range between 28 and 36%.
This means that the people's well-liked President Clinton was
penalized, while the people's despised President Bush is allowed to
stay on.
If this isn't a failure of democracy of, for, and by the people, then what is?
The 105th Congress's impeachment of Bill Clinton was an elitist
backlash to pummel an Arkansas poor-boy for dethroning the patriarch of
the ruling class. Unfortunately, the 110th Congress conforms to the
same eliticism, refusing to impugn the progeny of that same ruling
class. The collapse of our democracy is in no small part due to the
ideological similarities between the Republican and Democratic parties,
fueled by cronyism and mutual corporate ties.
Sadly, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic Congress will rue the
day they took impeachment off the table. By disregarding the wishes of
The People and making no effort to impeach Bush and Cheney, Speaker
Pelosi will go down in history as the Speaker who permitted the most
corrupt Administration in American history to perpetrate its crimes.
She has secured her legacy as the spineless leader of a spineless
Congress that defied the Constitution and sanctioned Bush and Cheney's
lies. The 110th Congress and its Speaker have become enablers,
accomplices and accessories to the crimes.
The bottom line... Bush and Cheney have eighteen months left
to their term. During this time they are capable of many more
egregious crimes. Congress's failure to initiate articles of
impeachment for Bush and Cheney's criminal acts is a breach of
Congress's Oath "to support and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign or domestic." If Pelosi and the
110th Congress do not uphold this Oath, they have secured their
rightful places alongside Bush and Cheney as enemies of the state.
One final note: Members of both the House and the Senate have
stated that impeachment is certain to fail. Let it be known that if
the current Legislative Branch doesn't make an honest attempt at
impeachment, they have already failed.
But If they make an honest, heart-felt and diligent try, even if they fail, at least they have done their job.
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NOBODY marched to impeach Bill Clinton. Angry citizens DIDN'T fill the streets, carry signs and beg a non-responsive Congress to do its Constitutional duty and remove Bill Clinton from his job. Panels WEREN'T held across the nation, moderated by Constitutional scholars who loved their country so much that they traversed its full span to inform packed audiences of the high crimes Bill Clinton had done. 
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