March’s Harper’s Magazine is out on the newstands and in the meantime they’ve posted an excerpt of their cover article, The Case For Impeachment by Lewis H. Lapham, on their website. Go check it out as it is a hard hitting article covering the myriad reasons that Bush Must Go.

First, a quote from Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) on his late 2005 House resolution calling for an investigation and censure of Bush and Cheney:

“To take away the excuse,” he said, “that we didn’t know.” So that two or four or ten years from now, if somebody should ask, “Where were you, Conyers, and where was the United States Congress?” when the Bush Administration declared the Constitution inoperative and revoked the license of parliamentary government, none of the company now present can plead ignorance or temporary insanity, can say that “somehow it escaped our notice” that the President was setting himself up as a supreme leader exempt from the rule of law.

Lapham’s conclusion is probably the best part:

We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country’s good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world’s evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation’s wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal—known to be armed and shown to be dangerous.

Come January of 2007 when the newly elected 210th Congress begins its session, the hopefully Democratic majority will have a tough question to face regarding impeachment. The facts of the case are here…what do you think?