ITMFA

That acronym stands for:

IMPEACH THE MOTHERFUCKER ALREADY

and we all know who we're referring to...

Anyhow, David Sirota set up that website (they even have some cool merchandise) and this is his blog, Sirotablog. I like him, and this was a good idea. Bush deserves to be impeached, and not a day goes by that we get at least one more reason to add to the list of impeachable offenses.

Impeachment. A big step. I read this article on The San Francisco Bay Guardian a while ago, and I'm posting about it because it's still very much relevant. A few worthy quotes:

Richard Nixon escaped a likely impeachment only by resigning after a long investigation into abuses of power that are remarkably similar to those facing President Bush: illegal wiretaps, war crimes and deceptions, crimes in retaliation against perceived enemies, obstruction of justice, and other actions flowing from extraconstitutional claims of executive authority.
...
All three agree the Clinton impeachment was a gross misuse of the process, which they see as something the founders intended to be used only in extreme cases.
...
"The impeachment provision is for truly egregious wrongdoing, and we shouldn't repeat the unconstitutional impeachment of President Clinton," Sunstein said.

"I think impeachment is the nuclear option and should be talked about only rarely," Bloch said. "It's a weapon for when you have to get someone out of office because he's dangerous."
...
Clinton was impeached when all the legal experts say he shouldn't have been. So Bush could clearly be held to account for crimes that are more serious than lying about an extramarital blow job. What is being alleged against the Bush administration are misdeeds that have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, the torture of people in US custody, blatant and unapologetic violations of the Fourth Amendment, and the shredding of American credibility around the world – all of which are ongoing, claiming new victims everyday.

That's why the advocates of impeachment say we can't afford to wait two years for another election. Besides, they say, stopping the imperial ambitions of a president is precisely why the founders created the tool of impeachment.

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land," warned James Madison, "it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
...
But the list of constitutionally troubling offenses by both Bush and Cheney started right away: Cheney's defiance of congressional inquiries into his secret Energy Task Force meetings, the appointment industry insiders to regulatory agencies, the refusal to release public documents like Ronald Reagan's presidential papers, the ignoring of warnings about the coming 9/11 attacks and then obstructing investigations into it, the use of the attacks to create an imperial presidency that defied congressional oversight and spied on Americans.

How right was James Madison: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." And Bush clearly took advantage of the 9/11 attacks on US soil to settle his family's personal score with Saddam Hussein, and to then expand his office's powers beyond what they've ever been, or intended to be.

And in so doing, he violated the US Constitution, for which he should be impeached.