There are two key issues around impeachment
1) Whether Bush & Cheney actually have to undergo impeachment
proceedings will tell us a lot about the state of the institutions
of our democracy.
2) Whether the democrats are transformed by raising the issue
and actually carrying through on it. The crimes by Bush and
the right-wing Republican syndicate are so blatant, present
democratic leaders seem to think it's okay to sit back and
just keep giving Bush Inc. ever more rope to hang themselves.
Democrats have been so debased the last 20 years - beginning
with the defeat of Jimmy Carter, and Reagan's triumphism, et al.
that impeachment of the present administration constitutes a
"trial by fire" so to speak....ie, it's not just if Bush and
Cheney are impeached, but how it's done and the role the
Democrats play that will be crucial going forward.
The democrats think that what the nation needs is competent
and "honest" leadership, and that is how they will delineate
themselves from incompetent and corrupt Republicans.
From my point of view and what is equally, if not even more
important is that they provide leadership centered around a new
ideology. Without new ideology, we fall back under the sway of
the Rush Limbaugh's, Grover Norquist's, neocons, Weekly Standard,
Hoover Institute, William Buckley, George Will, etc.
The fight here in America is no less than a fight for hearts
and minds....for the soul of the nation. The right wing sees
it in those terms and consequently acts that way. They take no
prisoners. I honestly don't see the left, or the democrats
framing the fate of the country in the same terms.
- A.
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