Re: Moyers: Surprisingly Interesting Impeachment discussion
On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
They’ve got a lot of different points. But just in passing, their
main response to the argument that “they’ll be out 18 months, and
replaced by a bourgeois tool” is: you don’t want the next bourgeois tool, and
every one thereafter, to have these new powers. And that they will unless impeachment hearings are begun. And that the hearings will have
the power (by themselves, even without conviction) to remove precedent from
these engorgements of presidential power. Which, they convincingly
argue, are beyond anything any president in history has claimed. And they
also argue that if these precedents are left, we can be almost certain they
will be used.
Well that’s why there won’t be impeachment hearings. No doubt the
Dems would like some of these magical powers too, when they once
again occupy the White House.
Doug