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Impeachment Bears Fruit
Re: Impeachable Strategy
To discourage the effort to put on record what this administration has done to the American People, in the many and awful ways it was done, is a disservice to those who have been killed or have suffered.
Phil Lair
If you expect Democrats to take back the House, or anything else, real voters will have to turn out at the polls and vote for them. How do you expect this to happen if the Democrats haven't managed to grow enough spine to stand up for some principles? If all they can do is hide in the shadows, waiting for a chance to jump out and attack Bush from the right, as Schumer and Clinton recently did on the Dubai ports non-issue?
The Democratic party needs to figure out if it stands for anything besides gaining power, and then draw together around those principles consistently and publicly, before voters will take them seriously as an alternative. Otherwise they will continue to stay home or vote for the real Republicans. And if you're going to have a coalition around those principles, you have to take in a variety of people with a variety of tactics, including impeachment, just so long as one part of the coalition doesn't attack another part of the coalition, as David Corn just naively did.
Steven Tupper
Your article about impeachment is absolutely correct. Let's put this energy into taking back the House and Senate—even though I am absolutely saddened about the state of affairs in my country.
Audrey Marino
Regarding Feingold's resolution , David Corn says "There is no chance that this resolution will be adopted by the Republican-controlled Senate. But Feingold has taken a stand and provided a rallying point for those (in and out of the Senate) who share his belief that Bush trampled the Constitution by okaying warrantless wiretapping."
Well, given how unrealistic that resolution is, why is it any more unrealistic to pursue impeachment in the House? Neither may amount to anything more than efforts that draw some public attention, but at least they may do that.
Berry Ives
This is the most confused , mean-spirited essay I have read here. Corn condemns Conyers and impeachment but lauds Feingold and censure? Both are equally unlikely, and both are calculated not for their literal outcomes but for advancing the debate. What's up with Corn?
Horace Albaugh
Precisely why Senator Feingold's call to censure is the appropriate balance between statement of principle and the need to "move on" to do battle on substantive issues? Meanwhile, we can work to change the center of gravity on November 2006.
Christopher Oechsli
That's what I've been preaching for months: "Ya gotta have the votes, stupid!" Therefore, focus on winning the 15 seats to get some power back and THEN move impeachment.
Todd Waymon
Split On The Two-State Solution
Re: Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace
Jimmy Carter came so very very close—but totally fell short at the end. Noticing Israel's occupation is a good start, but really we must start noticing the mechanics that made the occupation, with all its innate brutality and institutionalized bigotry, possible: Political Zionism. It's a war machine of injustice and forced segregation.
Why should the Palestinians accept the idea that half of racist Israel's crimes against humanity are wrong but the other half are fine: 58 years and counting and Israel is still wrecking Palestinian homes and communities—and still creating Palestinian refugees. The Palestinians have every right to resist such state-sponsored terror in every way that they can.
Anne Selden Annab
Your clear and thoughtful analysis leaves no doubt that decolonization of the occupied territories is the major work point that must be addressed by U.S. foreign policy in the coming months. Thank you!
Garth Sheriff
One of the basic misconceptions concerning the Israli/Palestinian conflict is that the "occupied" territories were taken from the Palestinians. They were actually lost in the 1967 war by Egypt and Jordan. The aggression by those two countries and Syria resulted in Gaza, the Golan Heights and the West Bank being captured during the war. Due to the exisitng hostile nature of the Syrian government, I can't see Israel giving up the Golan Heights as it would put them in a militarily indefensable postion. The leaders of Hamas have recently made statements that they will never recognize the state of Israel. How do you propose to have a two-state solution when one of the states has the stated aim of destroying the other? When Hamas teaches their young to hate Israel and that martydom is a desire their young should strive towards?
David Henry
