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Talking Points - Impeachment

Talking Points - Impeachment

The record is clear this President, Vice President Cheney and other officials of the Bush Administration have committed many impeachable offenses.  Among other sources, see Representative Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 articles of impeachment for the President (HR 1258) and for the Vice President (HR333), and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark's lists of 20 articles of impeachment.

  • This is not a choice between letting some officials quietly retire from office or impeaching them.  This is a choice between defending democracy or loosing democracy.
  • Impeachment now might avoid an attack on Iran by a "lame duck" President. An unwarranted attack on Iran which would cause carnage for the people of Iran, death and maiming for we know not how many US soldiers, and would be the dream recruiting tool for terrorists around the world.
  • The "unitary presidency" is another name for a totalitarian state.  They have even said they are trying to achieve it.  It is a Congressman's responsibility to protect the governmental system from slipping into totalitarianism.
  • We have three branches of government so that they can balance each other's power.  If Congress abdicates its responsibility to maintain that balance of power we will loose it and democracy
  • In the Armed Forces we took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."  We still take that oath seriously and we call on you to execute your duties as Congressmen to impeach.
  • It is the law and it is a simple moral principle that anyone seeing war crimes or crimes against humanity must stop them.  Congress can do this by impeaching.
  • This lawless administration has taken us into an illegal war that is costing us $720 million a day.  Congress can stop that financial bloodletting by impeaching.
  • Our schools are in trouble, our bridges are in trouble, our economy is in trouble, many of the nation's citizens do not have health care, our levees are in trouble; impeach the scoundrels for lying to get us into the occupation of Iraq, then used the money saved repairing our country.
  • This administration has taken on unheard of presidential powers.  The unprecedented encroachment by the presidency on the powers of Congress will become a precedent and continue with future presidents of both parties.  Congress must stop this aggregation of power by impeaching.
  • It is the law.  Congress is charged with the obligation of impeaching in the case of "high crimes or misdemeanors." The crimes are obvious; to willfully ignore them is lawlessness and in itself criminal.