Think of how breathtaking that headline is. That’s a stunning statement but that’s what happened when Bob Schieffer interviewed Murtha for Face The Nation:

Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) said Sunday that Democrats in Congress could consider impeachment as a way to pressure President Bush on his handling of the war in Iraq.

“What I’m saying, there’s four ways to influence a president. And one of them’s impeachment,” Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

As I pointed out last week, John Murtha ignored the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and the right to a fair trial when he ‘tried and convicted’ the Haditha Marines before he had any firsthand knowledge of what happened. Now Murtha is willing to throw the Constitution aside to put political pressure on President Bush over a policy dispute. That doesn’t pass constitutional muster because it doesn’t rise to the level of high crimes or misdemeanors.

It’s apparent that Murtha doesn’t think he’s bound by the Constitution. It’s equally apparent that he thinks it’s ok to do whatever he wants because his goals are right. That’s the epitome of arrogance. It’s also the picture of injustice. Frankly, if Mr. Murtha attempts to impeach President Bush, he should be evicted from the House of Representatives for willfully violating the Constitution.

Many is the time that I’ve heard the phrase that “this is a nation of laws, not men.” Unfortunately, Mr. Murtha doesn’t believe that anymore. He thinks that laws don’t apply to him. It’s time that we let Rep. Murtha that his ignoring the Constitution isn’t acceptable. It’s time we told him that he’d better change his ways or we’ll have him fired next November.

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1. I made this comment in an earlier post, but it seems more appropriate here, edited somewhat.

   Doing the will of the people is one thing. Doing what needs to be done in the face of, or in spite of it, is another. If Murtha, Harry Reid and others of their ilk had been around during the Civil War - and there were a few among northern Democrats - Lincoln would have had an even more trying time between incompetent generals, the staggering loss of life (we lost more in a single day at Antietam than we have in four years in Iraq) and an opposition party that labelled him an ape, a buffoon, and a dictator. All because they weren’t getting their way, whch was to placate the South, blame the North for their troubles, even allow a more palateable form of slavery, to preserve the Union at all costs, even if meant compromising the Constitution.

   And before the critics come out of the wood work, yes, Lincoln did suspend habeus corpus, and he did so in the context of imposing martial law over the state of Maryland - and thereby Wasington itself and the B&O railroad - that we were very close to loosing to Southern control.

   Comment by T. A. Gray — April 30, 2007 @ 9:32 am

2. This is a great point. With all the talk of impeachment in the media, and unfortunately, in congress, there really is no basis for such proceedings. Now, Murtha seems to have uncover the real reason these threats exist…not to hold the President accountable for high crimes & misdemeanors, but simply to bend him to their political will.

   Comment by The Gentle Cricket — April 30, 2007 @ 12:07 pm