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some recent books about impeaching George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney

the blatantly obvious impeachable offenses of the team that stole their offices in the first place

A virtual cottage industry currently exists for books chronicling the evidence, logic, and necessity of impeaching George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. Some of them are on display and available for sale immediately above.

In The Case for Impeachment, by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky, these impeachable and possibly-impeachable offenses include: dereliction of duty in not stopping al-Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001; falsification of evidence and lying in support of invading Iraq in violation of international law; arranging for "extraordinary rendition" of suspects to states that are known torturers; operating torture chambers at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in violation of the Geneva Conventions to which the U.S. is a signatory (and of which it is a co-author); suspending the writ of habeus corpus; incompetence in protecting and restoring New Orleans; illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens in direct violation of the provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA) (about which George W. Bush publicly brags on the White House web site, here); conniving to reveal the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame Wilson as a sleazy way of undermining the credibility of her husband's claims of falsification of intelligence to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq; and abrogating to themselves the power to issue "signing statements" saying that, regardless of what Congress may intend to do through its legislation, the "unitary executive" is entitled to define the limits of its own power (apparently none) and the degree to which it will obey the laws passed by Congress.

Since the publication of that book, new possible impeachable offenses have been committed by this allegedly outlaw administration, including an attempt to circumvent Congressional intent in providing for federal regulations; firing a batch of U.S. Attorneys for insufficient enthusiasm for White House priorities, and then lying about the reasons why; and, emerging on the heels of investigations by Dana Priest at the Washington Post and Mark Benjamin at Salon, criminal neglect of the massive number of surviving casualties from the illegal-to-begin-with and budget-busting Iraq War.

not impeaching Bush and Cheney is the proverbial "elephant in the room" of the Beltway Democrats

Given this startlingly huge list of impeachable offenses allegedly committed by George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, why haven't they been impeached, tried, and removed from office, as provided for in the U.S. Constitution, designed by its Framers to stand as a bulwark against exactly the kind of monarchical, autocratic tyranny they had just liberated themselves from by waging the Revolutionary War of Independence from Great Britain?

"Impeachment is off the table," Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi famously said, perhaps, at the time, during the 2006 campaign season, in order to avoid giving the impression that she was salivating for a chance to be President herself. Under this assumption, Speaker Pelosi can be seen to be cleverly disguising her real ambition, while silently hoping that impeachment would be forced upon her, thereby only-reluctantly catapulting her to the highest executive office in the land.

In that case, the ruse worked, the American people voted for "a new direction," and now Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House. In a rare turn of events, however, a politician seeking office has actually done what she said she'd do. Now that she's in office, she's showing her true colors: she really DOESN'T want George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney impeached on her watch.

Why should the leader of the party brought to power by disgust at the moral and strategic bankruptcy of the Republican team that stole the election in 2000 be cheerleading and conniving in their defense by leading the effort to twist the arms of Democratic state legislators across the country who are now valiantly seeking to do what she and her House cohorts apparently lack the will to do: begin an investigation of the myriad of impeachable offenses blatantly, and even admittedly, committed by the current occupant of the White House and his "tough-minded" Vice President?

a new series of Impeachment Channel interviews about "Bush's Beltway Democrat Supporters"

In the next few days, the Impeachment Channel will be talking to activists, electeds, pundits, academics, and others about why the Democratically-controlled House of Representatives, and its leader, Speaker Pelosi, are not only failing to exercise their constitutional and moral responsibility in removing a petty-but-massively-dangerous-and-destructive tyrant from office, but are, in fact, leading a nationwide campaign against members of their "own party" in order to protect Bush and Cheney from more-clear-minded and less-hesitant defenders of the U.S. Constitution. And why they have refused, at least so far, to go on the record to explain the real reasons behind why they're standing up and sticking up for the Republican standard-bearers who cheated their own party's candidates out of the offices they hold today.

Stay tuned.

listen to previous Impeachment Channel interview with activists and electeds

You can listen to more than 20 previous interviews about the impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney by licking on the appropriate "PLAY" buttons in the "2 impeachment line-up" and "1 impeachment line-up" on the Impeachment Channel, below.