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If you’re for impeachment, support Cindy Sheehan for Congress. Cindy Sheehan is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi is best known, among activists struggling for the impeachment of George W. Bush for declaring that “impeachment is off the table”. Single-handedly, without bothering to investigate the alleged crimes of George W. Bush, or even taking a formal look at the evidence already available, without democratic debate in the Congress among all the members, Pelosi decided she would do whatever she could to prevent the impeachment of George W. Bush from happening.

Yesterday, “with a a heavy heart,” Cindy Sheehan declared,

“I announce my candidacy against Nancy Pelosi in California’s 8th. If anybody would dare think that I am not serious, I would hope that they would look back at the last three years of my life and everything that I have sacrificed to restore our nation to one that obeys the rule of law and can be looked up to with respect once again in the international community and not as the hated laughingstock on the block.”

There is not yet an official Cindy Sheehan for Congress web site. When it comes up, we’ll link there.

In the meantime, we’re adding a Cindy Sheehan for Congress section to our Imprison Bush shop, so that you can start to show your support for Sheehan as yet another way of moving toward the impeachment and imprisonment of George W. Bush

There’s a lot of damage that George W. Bush can do over the next year and a half, and a huge amount of damage that he has already done over the last six years. So, what are the Democrats in Congress going to do about it? Nothing much. They need George W. Bush, after all.

Democratic Senator Russ Feingold has introduced a new resultion of censure against George W. Bush. The resolution is not impeachment, and it certainly would not result in imprisonment, but it would at least put Congress as on the record as noting the profound damage that President Bush has done to America.

The Democratic Party leadership is steadfast in refusing to support Feingold’s censure resolution. Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid says, “The President already has the mark of the American people that he is the worst president we’ve ever had. I don’t think we need a censure resolution to prove that.”

Isn’t it amazing how Harry Reid turns the situation around 180 degrees? The majority of the American people support impeachment. As Harry Reid himself says, the American people already recognize George W. Bush as the worst President in American history, even worse than Richard Nixon, who at least had the one scrap of decency necessary to resign in shame. The Congress is supposed to follow the will of the people. The Congress ought to impeach the President, or at least censure the President. But Harry Reid says that, if the American people despise George W. Bush, that’s enough for him.

In fact, Harry Reid knows that if the Democratic leadership in Congress allowed for the impeachment of George W. Bush, it would be a political misstep. The Democrats, after all, wouldn’t have George W. Bush to kick around any more. Censure, impeachment, and imprisonment of George W. Bush is the right thing to do, but Harry Reid cares more about politics. He wants to keep George W. Bush around as a political tool, somebody to keep the Democratic voters motivated.

In the meantime, America suffers. Harry Reid and his ilk in Congress could end the suffering, but they find it too useful for their purposes. How sad.

I ran across a kind of cynical (Sin Nickel) article written yesterday, about a short protest in favor of impeachment a few weeks ago. The protest consisted of unfurling a banner at a baseball game of the San Francisco Giants, in the hope of getting the banner shown on television, along with all the other advertisements.

I think the writer was onto something. What does it say about the state of our collective identity when the best way to get a message out to a large audience is with a banner at a ball game? The American people are too busy sitting, flacid, in their arm chairs, staring at the broadcast stage, to be active upon the public stage.

Those of us who support the impeachment of George W. Bush are pretty serious-minded. We believe in things like the rule of law, and the importance of liberty as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

The trouble is, we don’t live in a serious nation. I like Harry Potter books and all, but there’s something very wrong about Harry Potter books and movies getting more attention than the serious books and documentaries that have been produced about the war crimes being committed by the American government.

We can protest all we want, but if America prefers to think of Twinkies, we’re not going to get very far.

It started out with the horse whisperer, the guy who could tame wild horses just by interacting with them according to their natural behaviors. Then we got Cesar Milan, the dog whisperer, who trains dogs in a similar way. A Walt Disney TV show brought us the Tiger Whisperer, who had a telepathic connection to a big cat. Now, we’re getting news of Martin Hof, a Dutch man who likes to hang out with water birds in a park.

All this is well and good, but what we really need is a Bush Whisperer. Obviously, speaking in logical, reasonable terms doesn’t work with President Bush. Let’s not keep trying that failed tactic over and over again. America needs someone who can ease in gently alongside George W. Bush and learn to communicate with him in the ways only a Bush can understand, finally getting the message through that the Iraq War isn’t working, and it’s time to change, or be put out to pasture in Kennebunkport.

The Bush Whisperer needs to be someone who understands the natural history of the Bush family, someone who’s been around the wealthy children of oil tycoons, or the political son of a former President.

Any suggestions for who that might be?

George W. Bush is running out the clock. He has one and a half years left to exercise the power of the President of the United States, and is hoping that the Democrats will just let him ride it out with no trouble.

Sure, the Democrats issue subpoenas for second-tier White House officials, but the White House just refuses to allow those officials to comply with the subpoenas. No information is obtained, and the Democrats don’t even try to subpoena George W. Bush or Dick Cheney. They sit, and huddle, and the time runs down.

Of course, there’s one thing that Congress can do that George W. Bush has no power to withstand: Impeachment. Yet, the Democratic politicians seem afraid of impeachment. The Democrats in Congress are like a football team in the Superbowl, with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, that has decided just to stop trying to win. “We’ll try again next season,” they say.

It’s pathetic, and the Democratic base of activists is furious. Even Senator Russ Feingold is getting blasted. Rightly so.

The Democrats in Congress are sacrificing what’s right for America in favor of what will help them get more power in 2008.

Change.org is a web site that takes the idea of MySpace and FaceBook, and elevates it to a higher level. Instead of merely encouraging people to talk about entertainment, Change.org asks people to identify the changes they want to see in the world, and then encourages them to actually do something to contribute to that change.

You must be the change you want to see in the world, so goes the saying by Mohandas K. Gandhi. So, get on over to the following three impeachment-focused centers on Change.org, and get active:

Mark Holcombe writes in to the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, “Given the Bush administration’s apparent belief that it is above the law, accountable to no one, and its flagrant disregard for the Constitution, impeachment must be considered. The grounds are simple: failure to uphold the president’s oath of office… Dick Cheney becoming president is too horrible to contemplate? The obvious solution is to impeach Cheney first.”

I agree. A lot of people agree. The trouble is that most members of Congress are not supporting these efforts. Looking to preserve their own careers, they’re taking the easy and safe route, and letting American freedom go down the tubes in the process. This is clearly the case for Rockford’s own representative in Congress, Donald A. Manzullo, but it’s also the case for many Democrats in both the House and Senate.

Step 1: Writing the newspaper is good.
Step 2: Writing your member of Congress will help.
Step 3: Supporting a pro-impeachment challenger to your member of Congress is best.