The Road of Bones

This morning on little-read right wing rag Insight, the White House is expecting Impeachment Hearings.

The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.

"A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.

Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February. They said the hearings would focus on the secret electronic surveillance program and whether Mr. Bush violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Administration sources said the charges are expected to include false reports to Congress as well as Mr. Bush's authorization of the National Security Agency to engage in electronic surveillance inside the United States without a court warrant. This included the monitoring of overseas telephone calls and e-mail traffic to and from people living in the United States without requisite permission from a secret court.

Sources said the probe to determine whether the president violated the law will include Republicans, but that they may not be aware they could be helping to lay the groundwork for a Democratic impeachment campaign against Mr. Bush.

Doesn't that last bit simply not give our ever-so nationalist Congress the credit they deserve? They do not walk blindly into these hearings. They know the president has been breaking the law. However, they seek to rubber-stamp the spying programs of the Pentagon, NSA and FBI. The ambush will come when they discover that, *shock!*, Mr. Bush, just like Mr. Nixon, has been spying on political enemies. I.E. public dissenters, journalists, the Kerry campaign, ETC.

Funny thing about the Nationalist archetype ... I think Orwell said it best when he wrote, "The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." Its too bad I do not have Democratic Senators, because if I did I would ask them to get the FBI out of my trash.

Seriously. Someone has been stealing all of my garbage. They did it again yesterday.

Posted by The Gonzo Muckraker on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at Tuesday, January 24, 2006 | Permalink