San Francisco Calls for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney

Wow--this is impressive--the city and county of San Francisco has voted to impeach Bush and Cheney. OK, maybe it's not impressive when you learn that the people of SF had nothing to do with the vote, but the city and county supervisors did--so how many of those supervisors voted to impeach Bush and Friends? Seven--of ten.

OK, well, we've got seven politicians who are interested in following the law. I wonder how many more we can get...

What's interesting is how the so called "liberal press" is covering the story. Here is how BeyondChron.com, the alternative SF online newsource, [http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3000|covered it] :

On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, the City and County of San Francisco became the first large municipality to call for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, by a 7-3 vote. Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Sophie Maxwell cast the dissenting votes (Sup. Jake McGoldrick was absent for the vote). Sup. Chris Daly commenced his introduction of Agenda Item 27 with "I initially thought this ... would be a noncontroversial piece of legislation. Perhaps it still is, maybe not-a-unanimous-vote piece of legislation. But if you remember when we took our oath of office we swore to uphold the Constitution."

Sup. Daly again called attention to the strongest argument for impeachment, Bush lying to the American people about the reason for preemptively attacking Iraq based on forged documents regarding Saddam Hussein's "alleged" intent to purchase yellowcake from Niger: "Bush knowingly included false and misleading evidence in his January 2003 State of the Union Address stating Iraq was seeking to purchase uranium from Niger to build nuclear weapons." Sup. Daly also pointed to the Bush administration's failure to respond to the imminent disaster posed by Hurricane Katrina and asked the other supervisors to imagine if something like that happened in San Francisco where "primarily African-American people, some of whom were sick, elderly, disabled [were] left there basically for five days to die."

Now let's look at the AP--the following excerpt comes from [http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14010444.htm|a Friday March 3, 2006 article] from AP.org available at MercuryNews.Com:

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has spoken: President Bush must be impeached. It's a political earthquake that is shaking the establishment across the country.

OK, maybe across San Francisco Bay, to Berkeley.

Some critics of the president applauded the latest attempt by San Francisco's governing board to wade into Washington's affairs. Others rolled their eyes.

"This should certainly force a special convening of Congress," San Francisco's Democratic Mayor, Gavin Newsom, said sarcastically. "I'm surprised the president himself didn't shorten his trip to India to deal with it."

San Francisco this week became the biggest of the scattered left-coast bastions to pass such measures; Others include Santa Cruz, to the south, and Arcata, far to the north.

The resolution continues a long tradition of mutual antipathy between Bush and San Francisco, a city he has never visited as president.

So, to locals, it's important. But to the AP and the San Jose Mercury News which published the AP story locally, SF's vote strictly represents their ire for Bush for blowing off their city and has nothing to do with the reasons the SF board of supervisors actually gave for voting that Bush and Cheney be impeached.

My take on the "liberal media" in regards to their coverage of this story is simple. An impeachment would "tear the country apart." The economy would take a nose dive because an impeachment trial on this scale would cause massive levels of disillusionment among the US citizenry. People would stop buying and that's bad for an industry that is already losing its audience to alternative media sources on the 'net.

Downplaying "Impeach Bush" stories is in the media's best interests.

Sadly, it's not in our best interests.

I do agree that the country would be torn apart by an impeachment trial. I think this is a good thing since our government is so incredibly corrupt and useless. It does not do its job of protecting the citizens of the United States. Instead it protects the New American Citizens--the corporations.

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