San Francisco Board Of Supervisors to Vote on Bush Impeachment Resolution
God Bless San Fran, eh? Got all their problems solved, so they’re going to help out the rest of us:
In case you’re short a hot topic tonight, Bill O’Reilly, take a look at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — which is working up a resolution calling for the “full investigation, impeachment or resignation” of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Pennsylvania Avenue Pair’s alleged crimes:
– Waging an unnecessary war in Iraq.
– Authorizing torture of terrorist prisoners.
– Failing to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina.
– And not to be forgotten — ordering the secret wiretapping of U.S. citizens without a warrant.
San Francisco’s ever-left-leaning Supervisor Chris Daly placed the resolution on the board’s consent calendar Tuesday — but the matter was sent to committee at the request of Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who opposes the resolution. That ensures a roll-call vote when it eventually comes back to full board.
“I have more important things to do than to vote for President Bush’s impeachment,” Elsbernd said.
But from the looks of things, Elsbernd is in the minority. There appear to be more than enough supervisors lining up to pass the resolution.
“Absolutely — I support it, ” said board President Aaron Peskin, who gave the resolution a quick first read when we phoned him.
“One of the fundamental tenets of a democratic society is the freedom of elected officials to express sentiments on behalf of their constituents,” said North Beach’s Peskin. “And I believe the sentiments expressed in this resolution are widely held by the voters of San Francisco.”
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, whose battles with Daly have been widely reported over the years, is also on board.
“I never thought in my lifetime I would see a form of fascism where the corporate powers have taken total control of the government,” McGoldrick told us.
Daly says he sponsored the resolution at the request of the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee, which passed an identical version a couple of weeks ago.
“I’m just being a good Democrat,” he said, before hopping on his bike and riding off from City Hall.
Beyond parody…truly…
I mean, just think of it – if you wanted to write a campaign commercial for the Republicans for 2006, could you do it any better? Vote away, my friends, vote away – I’m especially curious to see the bill of particulars on the Katrina lack of preparedness – do all the congressmen and presidents since the founding of New Orleans count as unindicted co-conspirators?…
add to the charges:
– Winning the 2004 election which we still cannot get over.
Beyond parody? I don’t think Peter will agree, as judged by his voluminous previous postings on this President.
Well, maybe that’s why I live about a half hour South of San Francisco.
I don’t think that Bush should be impeached, and I don’t believe in government by impeachment. However, I also believe that the case to impeach Bush (such as it is) is far stronger than the case to impeach Clinton ever was.
Peter,
Were you born in the Bay area? If you were, I knew we had something in common. Born in Walnut Creek many moons ago. I still consider SF my emotional home and visit every year or two. Live in the mid-west now. Still have relatives in Napa, Sonoma County, Daly City, and Fresno.
OK, you force me to acknowledge an embarrassing secret. Born in Newark, New Jersey.
Now that I think of it, we have at least one thing in common: we have two cats (Mojo and Raisin). Regrettably, they are too busy sitting on the heat grate, the computer monitor, or anything else which is warm to contribute meaningfully to political discourse.
Hey, this is what happens when you live in a coastal area with lots of expensive, private schools (and subsequently, a lot of people who think they’re superior/smarter). My rapidly gentrifying former lower-middle-class industrial city (Somerville – think of it as Cambridge’s Oakland), has a contingent that has been trying its darndest to effect economic divestiture from Israel for the past couple years. I’m sure that after they get this passed somehow, they’ll work on impeaching the president as well.
I wonder what will happen with the Israel divestiture movement now that Hamas is calling the shots for the Palestinians – but then again, why should reality intrude on the reality-based community?…