“It will go down to the wire, but I for one have confidence in the President. With this latest initiative he is likely to drive his approval rating back below the trend line, and put us firmly on a course to finally unite the country, with 95% - 99% of us disapproving of the job he has done as President when he triumphantly hands over the reigns in January, 2009. Thank you President Bush for fulfilling your promise. Thank you for bringing us together with a truly bipartisan purpose. Thank you for uniting our country again.”

Drowning torture is absolutely and unequivocally forbidden under U.S. Code. By openly and proudly refusing to acknowledge the law, bushncheney made an indefensible case against themselves.

The charges couldn’t be simpler. You don’t need a law degree, or even a high school degree, to know that when the occupant of the oval office declares himself (or herself) to be a unitary authoritarian executive, they are violating the principle of consent — the SOLE moral principle on which our nation is founded.

There is nothing left but to say “No Way, Not in Our America!” And impeachment is the ONLY meaningful way to do it.

Articles of Impeachment calling on Members of the House to declare themselves “with or against” the torturers could be on the floor next week. They could be on their way to the Senate the next day. (And the impeachophobes who try to excuse their dereliction by telling us removal impossible could be in for a surprise. Given the fact that the Senate voted 92-2 for McCain’s anti-torture amendment, too few may be willing to declare themselves “with” the War Criminals. Too few may be willing to vote to declare executive “signing statements,” not the legislation they pass, to be the law of the land.

We charge the men and women we elect to Congress with the duty to “police” the executive and judiciary. At least to date, all but a handful of Members have been shamefully and cravenly derelict in that duty.

Criminals can’t destroy the civil order. Only the dereliction of those we charge with enforcement can do that. Just as the police are duty-bound to protect the public safety by seeking to arrest those who openly violate the law in our communities; Members of Congress are duty-bound to seek to impeach and remove corrupt officials. It doesn’t matter whether they think the “perps” will “get away” or “get off.” Their duty is clear.

The perpetrators in the White House didn’t turn the USA into a war criminal nation that spies on its own citizens. It is the impeachophobes in Congress who did that.

And if they don’t find a “cure” for their impeachophobia before January 20, 2009, this nation will remain a War Criminal nation regardless of who occupies the White House.

If Iraq works out, emerges as a prosperous liberty-loving nation that fights Islamic terrorism and respects America’s role in their independence, I think history will fare better to Bush than you think, and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will go down in history with the likes of Neville Chamberlain and Pierre LeValle, otherwise they will be remembered alongside Clement Laird Vallandigham. Who the hell is Clement Laird Vallandigham you say? …Exactly.