Impeachment Time?

Last I checked, it looks like 85 percent of people polled by MSNBC think Bush should be impeached.

We need to pressure Congress to act to impeach, or at least censure.

Some are starting to lay the groundwork. E.g. see the report by Conyers et al's staff in House Judiciary. Which doesn't incorporate the wiretapping revelations.

I was at the local used book store the other day and came across IMPEACHMENT: Selected Materials On Procedure by the House Judiciary Committee from 1974.

Since Cheney and Bush are hunkering down in a Nixonian state of paranoid powermongering, seems like the right time to pick this kind of stuff up.

I'm no lawyer, but just about every page seems to scream about our current situation.

e.g. on page 741:

"In examining the parliamentary history of impeachments it will be found that many offenses not easily definable by law, and many of a purely political character, have been deemed high crimes and misdemeanors worthy of this extraordinary remedy. Thus, lord chancellors and judges and other magistrates have not only been impeached for bribery, and acting grossly contrary to the duties of their office but for misleading their sovereign by unconstitutional opinions and for attempts to subvert the fundamental laws and introduce arbitrary power."

That, of course, is directed at the British. Yet in this country the sovereign is "We, the People."

I wonder if we're ready to exercise that sovereignty?