Nancy Boy

Here are the two Nancygrams I'm mailing in the morning; I'm including the copy here so those of you who don't have time to compose your own can cut-and-paste.

The first is your basic, somewhat formal letter to a Congressperson, but it touches on the themes I brought up in this post.

The Hon. Nancy Pelosi
450 Golden Gate Avenue, 14th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102

Dear Madam Speaker:

Like millions of Americans, I am dismayed by your repeated assertions that the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney is simply not an option for the Democratic leadership in Congress at this point in time.

While you are correct when you say simply getting the troops out of Iraq is difficult enough, I would suggest that impeachment isn’t going to make that job any harder. The Bush administration has demonstrated that it will tolerate no interference from you or anyone else when it comes to their policy on Iraq, and they fully intend for our troops to remain there for the foreseeable future. Given these circumstances, it seems obvious that the only practical method for bringing the troops home – at least before January of 2009 – is to remove Bush and Cheney or at the very least hamstring their political authority so severely that they will have to comply with Congress’ Constitutional authority to dictate war policy.

Using impeachment to restrict the President’s political options will also have the added benefit of preventing him from doing any more damage. No doubt you hear the whispers about military action against Iran more clearly than those of us outside Washington do; I’m certain that I don’t need to point out how disastrous such action will be.  If he should order a strike against Iran during impeachment proceedings, it would be obvious to even his most dedicated supporters that he is once again putting the lives of American servicemen and women at risk not because of a legitimate security concern but rather to prop up his fading political fortunes.

It is true that impeachment may cause the mechanisms of our government to grind to a halt, but seeing as those mechanisms have gone completely haywire I’m not sure that would be an undesirable outcome. Indeed, it may be the only way to bring them back under control.

Thank for your time and attention.

Speaker Pelosi's DC address is 235 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515.

No sooner do I finish up my second Nancygram than I stumble across this link in the comments to my original impeachment post - GMTA and all that. Anyway, go buy a shirt if you're so inclined, and send this to Speaker Pelosi if you're feeling retro:

Original .psd file here  if you want to monkey around with it on your own:

Download frankiesaysimpeach.psd

No, I don't think she'll get the joke. But who knows - maybe some staffer will dig it and stick it up on his or her bulletin board...and the big black word IMPEACH will stare at Speaker Pelosi all...day...long...

(Cross posted at A Blog Named Sue)

Comments

[NTodd]

I've got to think at least one of the Speaker's staff in particular will get the joke. Unless they're older and/or less hip than I think...

[NTodd]

Oh, isn't it supposed to be "Frankie SAY"...?

[Gerry]

I would add that impeachment is the cure to this constitutional crisis, not the cause of a new one, and that it — and only it — can correct the historical record and show the world that we are capable of regulating our government when it goes astray. Otherwise, what will we tell the children?

[russell]

"Impeach
Just do it
When you've gotta sock it to it
Impeach
Just do it
When you gotta throw out the bums"

(with apologies to Frankie)

[russell]

"Impeach
Just do it
When you've gotta sock it to it
Impeach
Just do it
When you gotta throw out the bums"

(with apologies to Frankie)

[Steve Nln]

I do think more that two short paragraphs is expecting too much of congressional aides. And, a little more than "Frankie Say" is called for. My two short paragraphs are here, http://stevennln.wordpress.com/

[Brautigan]

Ummm . . . .

Who's Frankie?

[Your Uncle Bastard]

Brautigan:

Referring to the British pop group of the '80s, Frankie Goes to Hollywood - try THE GOOGLE.

Seems like you might be too young to remember? ;-)

[Gary Gleason]

I've sent a "Nancy Gram" everyday Since November 2006 and will continue until Impeachment is off the table.

[Desider]

I say impeach because it's the right thing to do, not because it will or won't succeed.

You're caught in a gale, you throw out an anchor. You're bleeding to death, so you try to stanch the flow. Someone is so corrupt what's left of the Constitution will stink for at least 70 years? You try to get them the hell out. And you leave a rotting piece of dog meat with their name hanging on the door in case their friends try to come traipsing back.

When someone has committed 100 acts that would demand impeachment if anyone else in the world did it, well, you know, it demands impeachment. That's why we have rules. Let's use them.

[And as someone somewhere pointed out, you can still impeach the guy even after he's left office. Do it because it's the right thing to do, whether before or after you start dumping Mr. Clean allover the place to get the stench out.]

[victoid]

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[victoid]

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