The duty of Congress to impeach bad apples

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Impeach often

Letter to the editor;

Congress should be watching the actions of every incoming President very closely. Should he break laws, violate the Constitution, or abuse his power, citizens should urge Congress, early and often, to start impeachment proceedings in earnest.

Realizing that Abraham Lincoln did not actually have TIME to say all the wise things that are attributed to him, he is reported to have said a President should be authorized to hang five men a year without having to answer a lot of questions.

A member of his Cabinet supposedly said that five was way too small a number.

Then Lincoln is alleged to have answered, "Yes, but we could get the word out to two or three hundred that they were being CONSIDERED for the honor."

Every President, Vice President, Supreme Court Justice, Member of Congress and federal bureaucrat ought to be continually under the pressure of "being considered for the honor" of impeachment.

It is not a Constitutional crisis to impeach a federal official. It is specifically provided for, in detail, in the Constitution. It even specifies that when the President is being impeached, the Chief Justice is to preside over the trial in the Senate.

A real Congress, representing the States and the People, ought to continually maintain itself ready to impeach somebody, and should, in fact, impeach some lying low-life politician or bureaucrat every few days just to keep in practice.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona