The Slow Beating Drums of Impeachment

Cities across the United States have taken up resolutions calling for W's impeachment, most notably San Francisco. The sentiment has rarely spread to rural America but the Vermont town of Newfane joined the chorus yesterday. Newfane voters called on Vermont's lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives, independent Representative Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against the president, alleging Bush misled the country about Iraq and engaged in illegal domestic spying.At least four other Vermont towns, spurred by publicity about Newfane's resolution, endorsed similar resolutions during Tuesday's meetings: Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro and Putney.

In the US House, a total of 25 US House members have co-sponsored Resolution 635 to create a select committee to investigate the grounds for impeaching President Bush. Now this will not happen as long as the US House remains in Republican hands but you may have noticed that the R's are running scared this year what with Abramoff, the port fiasco and, well, all that other stuff (I could go on and on but I'm tired of listing all the different scandals). November holds the promise of just such a change.

2006 looks to be a good year.