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It’s not quite a crusade to take down the evil lord Sauron or anything, but actor Viggo Mortensen is using his prominence to add to the volume of the voice of Americans who are now calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. You can see Viggo Mortensen’s name added to the Citizens Impeachment Commission at Impeach PAC.

Here’s just a taste of what Mortensen has said about impeachment:

“I think impeachment proceedings need to be started immediately but not just against him. God forbid we should have Dick Cheney as President. No. Those two need to go, and many of the others in the inner circle need to go.”

Of course, millions of other Americans have been talking and working for impeachment for a long time now, but people seem to think that Viggo Mortensen is cute and he makes good movies, so I guess we’ll all use what powers we have for what’s right.

I’ll quote Impeach PAC on the rules of impeachment:

“The Jefferson Manual of rules for the U.S. House of Representatives allows state legislatures to initiate impeachment proceedings by submitting charges to Congress.”

I wrote a few days ago about how the state legislature of Illinois is considering bringing formal charges against George W. Bush that would force Congress to begin the process of impeachment.

Since that time, California has joined the effort. California Assemblyman Paul Koretz has submitted amendments to Joint Resolution Number 39 that would bring charges against Bush, and his submission will be formally introduced to the floor of the California Assembly some time within the next week.

The movement to impeach Bush is shifting from planning into formal action. I wish I could say that it’s just a matter of time before the prosecution begins… but I will never again underestimate the capacity for cowardice among Democrats in the United States Congress.

A new poll came out today, showing that less than one third of Americans approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as President.

So, what is the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives doing? Telling Democrats in Congress to give Bush the kid gloves treatment, of course.

The bill H.Res.635 would create a special committee to investigate the crimes of George W. Bush, and make recommendations regarding impeachment. But, so far, the leadership of the House Democrats, including head of the DCCC Rahm Emanuel, has refused to back the resolution, and only 33 Democrats have had the courage to defy their party’s leadership and co-sponsor the bill anyway.

That leaves over 100 Democrats in the House who are still too cowardly to stand up to President Bush, and hold him accountable for his crimes. What are they waiting for? They say that they’re afraid of losing votes from people who approve of Bush – 32 percent of the most dyed-in-the-wool right wing Republicans. Since when did we elect Democrats in Congress to cater to their whims?

What are these Democratic wimps waiting for? For Bush’s approval rating to drop below 20 percent?

What many people forget is that the United States Congress does not have the exclusive right to initiate impeachment hearings against the President of the United States. A state legislature can also submit charges against the President of the United States, and thereby begin the process of impeachment.

Well, the Illinois General Assembly may do just that, if a bill introduced by three members succeeds. State representatives Karen Yarbrough, Sara Feigenholtz, and Eddie Washington have introduced HJR0125, a bill that cites the many crimes of George W. Bush, and then concludes,

“…the General Assembly of the State of Illinois has good cause to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives under Section 603 that the President of the United States has willfully violated his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; and be it further RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, if found guilty of the charges contained herein, should be removed from office and disqualified to hold any other office in the United States.”

Just how stupid does the Bush White House think we are?

The Bush White House has been caught in so many crimes it’s hard for anyone to keep them all straight. The Cabinet has been in the thick of bringing the most corrupt, anti-freedom agenda America has seen in over a generation into the core of power in Washington, D.C. They’ve taken America into an unneeded war in which thousands of Americans have been killed. They’ve attacked the Constitution of the United States of America itself, trying to give so much power to George W. Bush that he resembles a king more than a president.

And, for all this, what has the Bush White House done to make amends?

They’ve changed their spokesman. Scott McLellan is resigning. Big whoop.

The American people have rejected the Bush Republican agenda resoundingly, but George W. Bush doesn’t get it. He thinks that he can just win the American people back to his craven, criminal side if he gets a new public relations person. He thinks that his problem is style.

We know better. The problem is in the substance of the Bush White House, and we’re not going to be happy until we see the entire White House team change – from the top down.

Hey, all you relationship webbers, there’s a new meme in town, and it’s called iMeem. iMeem organizes memes, or concepts, that can be linked to each other. You know, it’s kind of like MySpace, but instead of linking people up around sex, people get linked up around ideas. Far out, huh?

Well, today, there is a brand new impeach Bush meem, entitled, appropriately, Censure or Impeach Bush. It seems to be, so far, linked to Liberal Politics and Russ Feingold memes.

Where will this meem take us? Farther than the Democratic leadership in Congress, I hope.

This morning, I have a modest proposal for what to do with George W. Bush. He’s committed many crimes, and even the Democrats in Congress are still afraid of him. American democracy itself is at risk.

So, I say, let’s look to the past to see what others have done in similar dark times. France, for example. When Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew French democracy and proclaimed himself emperor, the French rose up and sent him to the island of Elba to live in exile.

I say we do the same for American Emperor George W. Bush. Impeach Bush first. Then, send him to Elba, to sit and ponder his crimes.

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I never thought I’d see this day, but apparently, American discontent with George W. Bush has become so strong that Republicans are beginning to join progressive Democrats in pushing for impeachment. For example, in New York State’s 24th congressional district, a Republican named Ken Camera is joining the race for his party’s congressional nomination, fighting against Brad Jones and Ray Meier for the privilege of going up against likely Democratic nominee Les Roberts.

What makes Ken Camera different is that he’s running for the Republican nomination on a pro-impeachment platform. He’s betting that enough Republicans are tired of George W. Bush’s incompetence to give him the edge in the Republican primary.

Camera specifically is calling for an impeachment of George W. Bush on the grounds of incompetence, and not of any particular crime. “We can argue about how many lies he’s told, but I’d rather evaluate it on competency of administering the federal government,” Camera says of the impeachment to come.