But First We Need a Majority

By David Swanson

Some say we can't push impeachment until after non-Republicans win a majority in Congress.

This makes no sense, because first we need a reason to vote the Democrats a majority.

You don't get a majority without offering people a reason to vote you one. 85 percent of Democrats want candidates who stand for impeachment. Look at these polls.

Maybe we need a non-Republican majority in order to impeach. Maybe we don't. But it's only by pushing impeachment that we can get one.

Let's keep straight which is the cart and which is the donkey.

It is not a waste of time to push popular positions without any guarantee or even likelihood they'll succeed. It is the only way to make them eventually succeed. And that includes: it is the only way to change the political balance.

Why should the Dems push futile proposals on education, energy, the war, and every other issue, but not push a futile proposal on impeachment? If you're going to declare everything futile, then they should just go home until someone miraculously gives them a majority.

OR, they could fight for what people want them to fight for, and provide us a reason to vote them a majority.

If we elect people who have not been forced to campaign on impeachment, they'll immediately tell us that 2008 is just around the corner and impeachment would be silly now

Also, as Bob Fertik has noted: When Democrats win the House and/or Senate, George Bush and Dick Cheney will continue their policy of treating Congress as if it doesn't exist. They will lie their way through oversight hearings, refuse subpoenas for documents, and ignore laws passed by Congress they don't like. There is only one thing Democratic majorities will be able to do to stop the Bush-Cheney dictatorship - to impeach them both.