Open Letter to Congress: A Call for Impeachment

On Monday, June 9th 2008, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made history on the floor of the House by reading 35 Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush. I highly respect his courage and integrity which has exceeded what most members of Congress have shown lately.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) has his own impeachment in the works against Dick Cheney and has joined with Dennis in support of the proceeding against Bush. Kudos to Rep. Wexler as well.

As more comes to light on an almost daily basis about lies, deceit and outright illegal activity on the part of the Bush administration, it is ever more apparent that Congress must take this action on behalf of all Americans and in particular, on behalf of the thousands of dead and injured soldiers who died in a war started with lies.

The million plus dead Iraqi citizens also need vindication from America's deadly blunders. The world is watching us and you, our Congress.

Now it appears the move to impeach is stalled, in part because of Speaker Pelosi's siding with the Bush administration against American's reputation and best interest.

Congress has this one chance to clear it's own name. For seven plus years Congress has aided and abetted a rogue, lawless administration by handing him bill after bill to undermine the Constitution. Each time the Supreme Court declared Bush's actions to be unconstitutional, he came to you and you handed him more unconstitutional laws.

Bush is not above the law. You cannot be so ignorant that you ( Congress ) did not know what you were doing. I will excuse the early years when Bush had a Republican Congress who let him work them like puppets to do his bidding. Democrats are now in the majority, yet I see little sign that anything has really changed at all.

While I would not expect you to impeach yourselves, though many of you do not deserve the office you hold, I would expect you to hold the present administration responsible for it's actions and to do so quickly before you throw away the only chance you have to do so.

Any member standing in the way of impeachment hearings is obstructing justice and is forgetful of their own oath of office to uphold the constitution. Some of you have the same blood on your hands as does the President, with well over a million humans dead in Iraq and hundreds in illegal detention. Bush will never wash his own hands. He is arrogant and thumbs his nose at Congress, the law, the Supreme Court and the Constitution and you have helped him do this for far too long. Time to say "enough is enough" on behalf of the We, the people.

America is watching you. America wants impeachment. Many of you are due for reelection this fall. Few of you deserve another term, however, you can start to atone for your own failures to protect our nation from the illegal actions of the administration by moving forward with impeachment, finally showing some courage of your own.

Will you stand up and say YEA! to impeachment or will you site silently by, letting the lawlessness continue hoping it will just "go away"? Will you allow bad precedents already set by this administration to remain for future presidents to follow or will you finally do YOUR DUTY? Send a clear signal into the future that no president is above the law....that NO PRESIDENT shall thumb his/her nose at Congress our Constitution and the Supreme Court as Bush and Cheney have been allowed to do for too long.

If you truly believe in your oath of office, that you are the protectors of the Constitution and of your country you cannot allow lawlessness to continue in the executive branch.

The ball is in your court, Congress. Are you going to play or sit on the bench?