[Sosfbay-discuss] Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment

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Nancy Pelosi and Impeachment

By John Nichols
The Nation
BLOG | Posted December 3, 2006
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=145071

  This coming Tuesday, in San Francisco, the
official canvass of the results of the November 7
election must be completed and those results will
be certified. 

On that day, this will be formal confirmation of
the intentions of the voters of San Francisco. 

Two of those intentions will be of particular, if
conflicting, significance. 

First, the voters will have reelected their
representative to the House of Representatives,
Nancy Pelosi, who in January will become the
Speaker of the House. 

Second, the voters will have joined the citizens
of several dozen other communities across the
country in formally requesting that their
congressional representatives take the necessary
steps to impeach President Bush and Vice
President Cheney. 

"We call upon the United States House of
Representatives to initiate an investigation into
High Crimes and Misdemeanors committed by
President George W. Bush and Vice President
Richard B. Cheney and to submit Articles of
Impeachment to the United States Senate,"
declares Proposition J, a measure that was
endorsed by almost 6O percent of the city's
electorate. 

With the certification of the results, it becomes
the policy of San Francisco that its
congressional representatives should "immediately
invoke every available legal mechanism to effect
the impeachment and removal from office of
President George W. Bush and Vice President
Richard B. Cheney for High Crimes and
Misdemeanors under Article II, Section 4 of the
Constitution of the United States of America." 

Pelosi is not taking the hint. In fact, she
contintues to say, when asked, that "impeachment
is off the table." 

It is of course, Pelosi's right to refuse to
implement the official policy of the city that
elects her. No law, nor pattern of practice,
requires members of Congress to actually
represent the views of their constituents. 

But in coming days, as activists across the
country raise the issue of impeachment at rallies
and forums nationwide, Pelosi may want to take a
few minutes to review the official position of
the community that has sent her to Congress. 

That position states: 

<< It is the Policy of the people of the City and
County of San Francisco to call for the
impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice
President Richard B. Cheney for violating the
public trust and for knowingly harming the United States of America,
the State of California, and
the City and County of San Francisco. 
On November 2, 2004, the people of San Francisco
passed Proposition N, asking the Federal
government to "take immediate steps to end the
U.S. occupation of Iraq and bring our troops
safely home now," citing President Bush's lies to
the American people in making the case for war in
Iraq. 

President George W. Bush abused his power by
authorizing the National Security Agency and
various other agencies within the intelligence
community to conduct electronic surveillance
outside of the statutes Congress prescribed as
the exclusive means for such surveillance and
concealed the existence of this unlawful program
from Congress, the press, and the public. 

President George W. Bush and Vice President
Richard B. Cheney abused their power by
arbitrarily detaining citizens and non-citizens
indefinitely inside and outside of the United States, without due
process, without charges and
with limited - if any - access to counsel or
courts. They have failed to faithfully execute
the laws of the United States by allowing torture
and failing to investigate and prosecute
high-level officials responsible for torture. 

President George W. Bush disregarded his
Presidential duty when he and his appointed head
of Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to
quickly and adequately respond to a major
disaster on United States soil, Hurricane
Katrina, which killed at least 1,383 people in
the Gulf Coast Region and left over 78,000 people
homeless, and is guilty of gross incompetence or
reckless indifference to his obligation to
execute the laws faithfully. 

President George W. Bush arrogated excessive
power to the executive branch in violation of the
basic constitutional principle of the separation
of powers. 

On February 28, 2006, the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors passed a resolution calling for a
"full investigation, impeachment or resignation
of President George W. Bush and Vice President
Richard B. Cheney." 

We call upon the United States House of
Representatives to initiate an investigation into
High Crimes and Misdemeanors committed by
President George W. Bush and Vice President
Richard B. Cheney and to submit Articles of
Impeachment to the United States Senate. 

We call on the United States Senate, after trying
any Impeachment, to remove President George W.
Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney from
office. 

We call upon the Legislature of the State of
California to transmit charges supporting
impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice
President Richard B. Cheney to the United States
House of Representatives. 

We generally call on our elected federal and
state representatives to immediately invoke every
available legal mechanism to effect the
impeachment and removal from office of President
George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B.
Cheney for High Crimes and Misdemeanors under
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the
United States of America. >>


© 2006 The Nation 

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