{"id":4733,"date":"2007-06-26T09:57:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T16:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2007-06-27T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:16:24","slug":"impeach-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=4733","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Blogged by Joseph Cannon<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

As Des points out below<\/a>, top Republicans are now plotting ways to remove Dick Cheney from office<\/a>. The thinking is that a vacancy in the Veep’s office could well provide a berth for one of the 2008 Republican contenders — McCain or Thompson.<\/p>\n

The strategy could work two ways, of course. Anyone who replaces Cheney will get Bush administration “cooties.” It won’t be easy to wash off the smell by November of 2008.<\/p>\n

How to bell the cat? After Downing Street has some excellent suggestions<\/a>. I have one of my own.<\/p>\n

Call on your senators and congressional representatives and ask to have documents subpoenaed from Cheney’s office. Which<\/em> documents? It almost doesn’t matter. Documents pertinent to the energy task force. Documents pertinent to the use of torture. Documents pertinent to the Niger forgeries. Anything will more or less do.<\/p>\n

All of Cheney’s staffers can be subpoenaed as well, on any number of issues. A Congressional investigation of Plame-gate. Haliburton contracts. The refusal to comply with the National Archives. Anything. Everything. All at once.<\/p>\n

If Cheney or any of his underlings refuse to comply with a single subpoena — and that’s a very good bet — he becomes instantly impeachable, on the same grounds that brought down Nixon. Cheney no longer has many friends in Congress. Nobody has his back. <\/p>\n

If every person reading these words made the call to his or her House and Senate members, Cheney could well be history. First subpoena, then impeach.<\/em> That’s the plan, and it WILL work.<\/p>\n

Click here to contact your Congress member…<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 6\/27\/07 11:15am PT:<\/b> Breaking: AP reports<\/a> subpeonas are served on Cheney and the White House…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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