Impeach Bush?

My home state of Vermont runs by town meeting. Every year about this time the towns convene a meeting at which they pass a budget for the coming year and discuss various other issues. So far four towns have passed resolutions asking Bernie Sanders, Vermont's sole Representative, to introduce a resolution of impeachment of the President. Sanders has responded by saying that, while this president has done terrible things, perhaps even illegal impeachable offenses, the Republican majorities in both houses makes such a thing futile.

Sanders has sponsored some even less probable efforts in the past, but this year he is running for Senate and, understandably, wishes not to offend any more voters than necessary.

Though I believe one can make a strong case for impeachment of George Bush, I have worried over the implications of impeaching two presidents in a row, of making even more bitter the partisan divide in the country and, in the unlikely possibility of actually convicting him, of finding ourselves with Dick Cheney as president.

I have since been persuade that, despite all those serious concerns, it would be good for the country if a bill of impeachment were introduced and debated. It may be our one chance left to rescue the dregs of democratic government from the clutches of the oligarchy that has effectively muffled and intimidated the entire country, citizens and elected representatives alike.

Please, Congressman Sanders, step up.