Can Bush be Impeached?

Apparently, all this blogging we've been doing about the "Downing Street Memo" is starting to have an effect in major newspapers. Today, in the Media Beat Section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Norman Solomon has written an article entitled, "Can Bush be Impeached?"

Well it's not the front page, and it is an oped, but that's the first time I've seen this speculation in the semi-MSM. This may actually end up being a lot more like Watergate, but this time it is we, the bloggers, who are going to end up as Woodward and Bernstein, since there are no more journalists anymore. Anyway it's an interesting read:

Can Bush Be Impeached?
By Norman Solomon
A few Democrats are starting to raise the question.

IF YOU THINK President Bush should be impeached, it's time to get serious.

We're facing huge obstacles – and they have nothing to do with legal standards for impeachment. This is all about media and politics.

Five months into 2005, the movement to impeach Bush is very small. And three enormous factors weigh against it: (1) Republicans control Congress; (2) most congressional Democrats are routinely gutless; (3) big media outlets shun the idea that the president might really be a war criminal.

For now, we can't end the GOP's majority. But we could proceed to light a fire under congressional Democrats. And during the next several weeks, it's possible to have a major impact on news media by launching a massive educational and "agitational" campaign – spotlighting the newly leaked Downing Street Memo and explaining why its significance must be pursued as a grave constitutional issue....

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