The extremely useful Nevada Thunder blogs a column by Lewis H Lapham of Harpers Magazine. So often, these articles aren’t available online without paying a fee or registration. It’s wonderful to be able to read them in full- or almost full- text. I really appreciate this, particularly for opinion columns hidden behind the New York Times “paid content” wall, and for articles in magazines I don’t normally encounter.

Nevada Thunder � Blog Archive � The Case for Impeachment

And no, I haven’t forgotten about Sen. John Conyer’s call for the formation of

a select committee to investigate the Administration’s intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.

I haven’t forgotten about the Downing Street Minutes. I haven’t forgotten that BushCo started talking about invading Iraq the day after he was first inaugurated.

Haven’t forgotten about the illegal wiretapping.

Haven’t forgotten about Plamegate.

Haven’t forgotten about Abramoff.

Haven’t forgotten about any of that stuff.

And as Conyer’s says, even though his cause may be hopeless, he wants “to take away the excuse that we didn’t know” that BushCo finds the Constitution an inconvenient impediment to untrammeled power and profit for his cronies, their companies, and the companies of their foreign chums.