Dick Cheney and President Bush can draw a sigh of relief this morning as Chris Daly's resolution calling for the impeachment of the President was scuttled off to committee by Sean Elsbernd. The resolution directs the Clerk of the Board of Supes to send copies of the resolution to statewide political leaders, the Democratic National Committee, and members of the House Judiciary Committee where it will probably sit in a very large in-box on all of their respective desks along-side credit card offers, Value Pak coupons, and pleas from Hurricane Katrina victims for more money to keep them from being evicted.
So why did Elsbernd push it off to committee, a sure-fire way to delay the sucker and keep the thing from ever being voted upon? Says Elsbernd in Matier & Ross: "I have more important things to do than to vote for President Bush's impeachment.' But because the idea that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors should always involve itself into national and foreign affairs is such a given, Beyond Chron wonders whether Elsbernd is either just trying to stick it to Daly, or-- horror of horrors!-- exhibiting support for Bush and Cheney.
Why this resolution is important because, once again, San Francisco will be leading the way to affect change throughout the country. We're sure once the resolution passes, an Assemblyman in Peoria will be so inspired that they will push a similar resolution there and once Peoria calls for it, well, buh-bye Bush. Because that's what always happens when we pass one of these resolutions.
Beyond Chron has another theory, one formulated after a discussion with a member of the politically attuned and well connected San Francisco People's Party, about how with all that BushCo. have done, they just might be guilty of enough war crimes to be thrown in front of the War Crimes Tribunal. Which will SO happen.
Actually, it might in that one country on the board of the Hague is Venezuela, which is run by Bush's good buddy Hugo Chavez. And Chavez is just crazy enough to do it. And by crazy, we mean well more than missing a few episodes of a "Buffy" Season Three box set DVD. Like more than half the season and every episode in the second half after Faith goes bad and joins up with the Mayor and even probably the awesome episode where Willow has to impersonate her bad-ass lesbian Vampire alter-ego (we lurve that episode). It goes without saying that with Chavez leading the way, the other nations will follow through and it'll only be a matter of months before Bush is hauled away in prison t's.
All of this thanks to Chris Daly.
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Bravo.
Is Chris Daly on a mission to antagonize the rest of the country as much as possible? I'm sure glad they spent taxpayer time money on this meaningless and obvious crock. ("Oh my God, Madge, did you hear? San Francisco doesn't like Bush!") It's not like there are any other pressing issues to deal with in this city, after all.
There is an actual impeachment movement and impeachment resolution in the house of reps. This resolution was passed by the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee. I don't think that its too too much to call for the impeachment of Bush. He has lied us into war, broken numerous laws, and that whole stolen election thing - just to name a few. Are you SO cynical and hip that you can only watch and scoff or is a resolution by the Board of Supervisors just too much action for you to handle? I say, why not pass it. I don't think anyone is confused as to how powerful this is. What is the point of doing nothing?
The SF Board of Supervisors has exactly how much power to impeach the president? Anyone?
None.
I am cynical, but definitely not hip, and I'm not asking the board to "do nothing"--I just happen to feel that there are about a thousand more pressing local issues that the Board could be spending its (and our) time on rather than grandstanding which only serves to demonstrate what everybody not living in a cave already knows--San Franciscans disapprove of Bush.
Sure, it’s purely symbolic, but if our representatives in Washington are too timid to call for impeachment, why not have our local representatives at least generate a little press and discussion about impeachment.
And it’s not like Daly has put everything on hold to work full time on drafting articles of impeachment. He held one press conference and he wanted to have a brief discussion about it at the next Board meeting. He’s also working on plenty of concrete things like a homicide prevention plan and reducing the number of cars downtown.
San Francisco voters have recently approved symbolic resolutions disapproving of the war in Iraq and military recruiters on schools. I’d like to think we’re sophisticated enough to realize that these things aren’t going to save the world, but they at least draw attention to these causes.
Elsbernd’s move was petty and shows how out of touch he is with San Francisco.