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Arcata City Council Calls For Bush Impeachment - Again
January 09, 2006
When we last checked in, the city council of Fruitbatvale - er, Arcata - California, had been holding a public hearing on whether to deport a statue of fearsome imperialist William McKinley. More recently, the council - which last year passed a resolution against the Iraq War, and also mulled a measure offering refuge for U.S. military refuseniks and deserters, has again approved an advisory measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush. More from the San Francisco Chronicle. The resolution lists allegedly impeachable offenses, such as misleading the American people and Congress into waging war in Iraq, failing to respond adequately to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, torturing human beings in violation of the Geneva Convention and ordering the secret surveillance of American citizens. All elected officials are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, said Councilman Dave Meserve, co-sponsor of the resolution. "This obligates us to act when the president violates the Constitution," he said. The Green Party of California got so excited about the Arcata resolution, they issued a press release about it, and included the full text. But Arcata Mayor Michael Machi, on the short side of the 3-2 council vote to pass the advisory measure, told the Eureka Reporter: "I’m hoping not to give it too much credibility or play because I don’t think it’s the responsibility of the City Council to call for the impeachment of the president.” The paper reported: The City Council’s resolution requests that U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Napa), with help from other representatives of Congress, introduce articles of impeachment against Bush and Cheney, according to a press release sent out on Thursday by Meserve. “The Constitution states it’s solely in the hands of the House of Representatives,” Machi said. “I believe that Mike Thompson is perfectly capable of doing his job with regard to any concerns of impeachment.” According to Thompson’s press secretary Matt Gerien, Thompson had seen Arcata’s resolution and has no intention of introducing articles of impeachment at this time. More from Machi: “It hurts the city of Arcata by ruining our credibility. Nobody will want to come to shop here because crazies are in charge.” You could say that. Meanwhile, Arcata's festering homeless population of Trustafarian vagrants remains a sore point. TECHNORATI TAGS: ARCATA, BUSH, IMPEACHMENT, MCKINLEY, IRAQ, DESERTERS, HOMELESS Posted by Matt Rosenberg at January 9, 2006 04:15 PM Comments:
During the impeachment effort against President Clinton, his defenders argued that a trial, particularly if it resulted in removal, would lead to increasingly frivolous and partisan uses of the impeachment weapon. I was inclined to dismiss the argument, at the time, because this was exactly the argument used by those who disapproved the impeachment of Andrew Johnson; and the Johnson impeachment, so far from encouraging repetition, produced a revulsion to its use for more than 100 years. But the Clinton defenders may have been right, after all. We do seem to have entered a more poisonous atmosphere, in which easy resort to the impeachment weapon seems reasonable. The Arcata sillies are mildly amusing. But does anyone doubt that if the Democrats take possession of Congress in 2006 there will be a serious effort to impeach Bush? It will be partly a matter of revenge, of course, but also partly a matter of how we now engage in politics. Posted by: Tom Rekdal at January 9, 2006 05:02 PMfruitbatvale....classic! fortunately for me i live about 30 miles away from nut-ville. but occasionally i have to go through eur-tweaka [eureka] and into arcata....home of more nuts than a bag of peanuts.and they are really really nuts there. Another Neanderthal rant form Pussytown...er, Seattle. Stayed for a week at the Fairmant recently and met nothing but pansy-assed idiots wrapped in fleece and sucking down $5 lattes like abandoned babies trying to fill the emptiness in their soul. Unless Van Cliburn plays there again I'll never go back. College towns may be colorful but at least they have a sense of right and wrong. I find Arcata mildly amusing at worst. Most people I've met there had an above average IQ. Oh yeah, no one gives a flying funk what you eat, christmasghost. You're deusional if you think otherwise. See a psychiatrist to get some meds for your psychosis. Posted by: gary at January 10, 2006 10:05 AMhah hah hah gary...... AND......i should have added that they will never run this state the way the nuts in seattle run washington.they are merely tolerated...and even that is running low for the fruit bats. Posted by: christmasghost at January 10, 2006 02:43 PMPost a comment
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