SF Rules Committee Recommends Impeachment of Bush and Cheney

Sup. Daly started off the hearing on Agenda Item 2 by thanking Robert Haaland, member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, for bringing to the supervisor’s attention the SFDCCC vote calling for impeachment. Sup. Daly then proceeded to define how the potential process works, with the U.S. House of Representatives presenting the case with a simple majority vote but the U.S. Senate would need a two-thirds vote to impeach.

Sup. Daly reminded San Franciscans of the 63% who voted Yes on Prop N in November 2004 ("Withdrawing U.S. Military Personnel from Iraq") that while this may be an issue that would appear in the national section of newspapers, it’s an issue that starts at the grassroots level, and that local discussions provide state and national politicians with how their local constituents feel.

Sup. Daly then proceeded to outline recent history of the administration’s actions as documentation for the impeachment call including the decision for the preemptive attack of Iraq based on faulty intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction, the scandal revolving around the leak of Valerie Plame’s name to the press for which Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been indicted, the warrantless and illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens, and the lack of response from the administration during Hurricane Katrina. (Recent testimony by Michael D. "Brownie" Brown shows that the Bush administration lied regarding the levee breaks and that, in fact, Bush knew the day Katrina made landfall that the levees had failed.)

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