Progressive Democrats Call for Bush/Cheney Impeachment

April 25, 2007 Contact: Jason Scott

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEWARK, Del. – Progressive Democrats for Delaware today called on Delaware’s Congressional Delegation in Washington, Rep. Michael Castle in the US House of Representatives and Senators Joseph Biden and Thomas Carper in the US Senate, to introduce, or support, legislation leading to the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Richard B. Cheney.

The action followed a similar call on its Washington delegation last week by the Senate of the State of Vermont.

Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD) Executive Director Rebecca Young said “Actions of the present Administration have done immense harm to our country and clearly risen to the Constitutionally-prescribed level of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’. Calling for impeachment is not something we do lightly. The impeachment process itself is painful and must be an action of last resort.”

“Nevertheless”, Young continued, “Congress owes it to the Nation to consider impeachment. This is not about the past. It is about the future. The Administration has shown little evidence of having learned from past mistakes. My own greatest fear is the very real possibility of our nation being misled into yet another war. But beyond that, this Administration’s complicity in torture, operation of secret prisons, spying on US citizens, defying the law by means of signing statements, mismanagement of emergency responses, and its abdication of responsibility on energy and the environment, undercut any argument that impeachment is ‘extreme’, ‘unnecessary’ or ‘just about political payback’. We can’t go on like this.”

“Congress is as much a guardian of the Nation’s interests and honor as is the President. Our legislative representatives must meet to their obligations to protect both”, she concluded.

The text of the PDD resolution, which follows the wording of the Vermont Senate resolution, is attached.

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Progressive Democrats for Delaware respectfully asks its Representative in the United States House of Representatives, the Honorable Michael Castle, to introduce, and Delaware’s United States Senators, Joseph Biden and Thomas Carper, to support, a resolution requiring the United States House Judiciary Committee to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President and Vice President of the United States.

Given that, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney have exercised the duties of their respective offices with respect to both domestic and foreign affairs in ways that raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust, and

Given that, the President’s conduct in his role as Commander in Chief in leading our nation into the military conflict in Iraq, and the Vice President’s continual advocacy for American troops remaining in Iraq, have cost the United States much of the good will that was extended to our country in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and

Given that, the President’s and Vice President’s domestic leadership on issues relating to individual privacy and personal liberty under law has raised constitutional issues of the greatest concern to the nation’s citizenry,

We ask our state’s elected representatives to give our request the most serious consideration.

Respectfully,

Rebecca H. Young

Executive Director

Progressive Democrats for Delaware