My OperaImpeachment, the loser's last resort.
Friday, February 22, 2008 10:12:11 AM
Hall argued that the nation's founders intended impeachment as a tool when other checks and balances failed.
"They didn't know there could be such a thing as shock and awe, used to start an illegal war, but they knew there would be illegal wars," Hall said.
About 100 people crammed into a State House hearing yesterday, many of them gray-headed, most of them appearing in favor in the bill. There were a few opponents. Rep. David Hess, a Hooksett Republican, said he spoke for his party's leadership in opposition to the bill.
"I have never seen a document more vitriolic and more inflammatory," Hess said.
He said he didn't see evidence - and "I'm not talking about a statement anybody could write in Vermont or San Francisco." Hess specifically challenged several portions, including the paragraph about Bush's use of "signing statements," documents with which Bush claims the right to disobey laws he's signed because he thinks they're unconstitutional.
"I don't know what signing statements are," Hess said, prompting clucking and laughter from the audience.
Understand? Ah dunt shee da case right duhr een black and huwhitttee, and dat 'meens Ah k'hant uh- nndorsee impeachment, nossir. (Hard- working man, Lower taxes!)
Seriously - how the fuck did these people ever manage to survive this long? I seem to have lived under the delusion that the reason the world did not end in radiation hell when they elected an actor with Alzheimer's syndrome to decide when the time was right to face down the Reds - was because they really knew how to pull their shit together when it mattered.
Not the case. Pure luck. Goddamned vigilant heroics from the President's wife, a concerned undersecretary, and an idealist of a scientist. Cosmic resonance interference. Barely supressed urge to kill everyone in an instant. Alien interference.
