A Cornered Administration: Dangerous Times Ahead

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A Cornered Administration: Dangerous Times Ahead

 

 

 

 

 

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April 24, 2006

 

 

 

A Cornered Administration

Dangerous Times Ahead

 

By DAVE LINDORFF

 

The noose is tightening around George Bush and his gang of White House

crooks and liars, with prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald reportedly

getting closer to an indictment of Karl Rove, and now with the

Illinois and California state legislatures considering resolutions

that would have those states submit bills of impeachment to the U.S.

House of Representatives--an alternative means of bringing an

impeachment case against a president when, as now, the sitting members

of Congress don't have the courage or conviction to do so themselves.

 

These are dangerous times, because the Bush family history, and the

Rove M.O., are to attack viciously and without restraint when cornered.

 

At a book signing on Friday at Columbia University, a number of

journalists told me they worried that Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they

thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious

investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something

treasonous, likelaunching a war against Iran, or perhaps allowing

another major terrorist attack against a U.S. target, so that they

could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up

jingoistic support among their wavering base.

 

The time for vacillating, cowering Democrats is over. The only way to

defeat this threat is to warn about it and resist it openly now.

 

Democrats also need to stop waffling about voter security and vote

fraud. It is essential that all voting machines in November have paper

records, and that an army of activists begin now preparing to block

Republican efforts to confuse and intimidate progressive voters to

keep them from even getting to the polls.

 

Italians and other people in nations around the globe have shown the

way, standing up to fraud and intimidation to insist on honest

elections, and throwing out charlatans.

 

November 2006 will be America's turn.

 

Will the American people be up to the task?

 

 

Three state representatives in Illinois--Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough

(217-782-8120), Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (217)- 782-8062), and Rep. Eddie

Washington (217-558-1012)-- have struck the first blow in defense of

liberty, and have shown us all the way. They were quickly followed

over the weekend by California Assemblyman Paul Koretz (310-285-5490),

who introduced a bill calling for impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.

 

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the

Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His new book of CounterPunch

columns titled " This Can't be Happening! " is published by Common

Courage Press. Lindorff's new book, " The Case for Impeachment " ,

co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is due out May 1.

 

He can be reached at: dlindorff