Sunday, June 12, 2005

 

The Tea Is Already In The Harbor

In the course of arguing that there are short-term, pragmatic benefits for Democrats in pimping impeachment the way the neocons pimped WMDs (i.e., every time they open their mouths in front of a camera or microphone), That Colored Fella points out that we've already got Article IV of the Impeachment Articles written -- hell, it's probably still on House word processors; we just "cut and paste" from the last presidential impeachment:

Abuse Of Power

- The President made false and misleading statements for the purpose of deceiving the American people

- The President made false and misleading statements to members of the Cabinet and White House aides

- The President frivolously asserted executive privilege

- The President made perjurious, false and misleading statements to Congress

(This is also intended to head off the inevitable wingnut pirouette, tomorrow, when for the first time in history they start to argue, "Hey, that's not an impeachable offense!")

posted by Michael 10:13 PM