…he {the President} shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” Article 2, Section 3 US Constitution

“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”Article 2, Section 4 US Constitution

Make no mistakes about it, I have been a supporter of President George W. Bush through two campaigns and two elections and applaud some of the moves he has made. I applaud his tax cutting strategy, his stance against therapeutic embryo cloning, and especially his decision to take the fight to the terrorists and their supporters. I also appreciated that he at least made an attempt to reform and reshape the Social Security system, and that he had enough political courage to say publicly from the bully-pulpit that the system was broken and needed to be fixed. Most politicians would never have gone there, as Social Security has been treated as the third rail of politics; touch it and you’re in for a very nasty shock!

The Democrats, conversely, hate everything about G.W. Bush.  They hate the way he walks, the way he talks, the fact that he has confidence, and the fact that he will make tough, if unpopular, decisions and stand by them. They hate him because he is nearly the exact opposite of them; he does not let public opinion polls set the parameters of his administration. He has realized that in many cases public opinion is going to go strongly against what the right thing to do is.

And the Democrats have been howling for the past few years about bringing impeachment articles in the House against the President for his handling, or mishandling in their view, of the war in Iraq. They claim that he “massaged” the available intelligence to lead us into conflict with Iraq, and that he lied to the American people and to Congress in his attempt to make his case for war against Iraq. The things is, all of the charges they claim to want to bring would not pass the laugh test, since they were privy to much of the same intelligence that he was, and they willingly voted for the resolution to take the fight to Sadaam Hussein; they wanted to have a recorded voted in support of the war once it was won.

But if the Democrats really wanted to impeach President Bush, this whole immigration fiasco would be the perfect charge to bring against him. No one anywhere believes that on the immigration issue that the President has been doing the job as laid out in the Constitution. He has made no attempt to faithfully execute the laws that are in place that regard how to deal with the invasion of illegal aliens into our country; in fact he and his administration, specifically Justice and Homeland Security, seem bent on ignoring those laws at every turn.

We have witnessed a Justice Department that has allowed perjured testimony, made a sweet plea deal with an illegal immigrant drug pusher, and withheld exculpatory evidence in order to convict two Border Patrol agents for doing the job they swore an oath to do…secure our borders.

We have seen this administration ignore clear evidence that Mexican law enforcement and paramilitaries have not only crossed into our country, but have actually fired on American law enforcement in their attempts to protect the smugglers of drugs and persons into our country. In the face of clear evidence what has W done? Basically nothing! Not even a strongly worded message to the Mexican government that this type of action will not be tolerated; instead our Justice Department consults with the Mexicans on which of our Border agents we will prosecute next.

This administration has made no real attempt to enforce the laws against companies, or small business owners, who knowingly hire illegal workers. They make excuses about how hard it is to track an illegal SSI card number, but we know that is a lie; they can use my SSI number to find me for just about any reason, but they can’t find a fictitious number? Puh-leeze! They simply don’t want to find or punish the companies that engage in this illegality; because they don’t want to upset the Chamber of Commerce and put any crimp in future business donations to GOP candidates.

And recently we had the spectacle of Michael Chertoff basically proclaiming that since the Congress had not passed the new “comprehensive” immigration plan...aka AMNESTY!!!...he would not be making any moves to build the fence that Congress authorized last year. Imagine that, a high ranking executive official refusing to enforce or execute the laws on the books because he, and the President, did not like the outcome of a recent legislative battle! And the President of the United States stands mute as his hand-picked Homeland Security Secretary refuses to enforce the law, for political reasons. That is truly amazing!

But what is really amazing is that the Democrats are too stupid to move on this! They scream about impeachment, but when the President, the Attorney General, and the Homeland Security chief hand them a credible charge on a silver platter, they ignore it. The evidence is there in newspaper accounts, in television interviews, and court transcripts; there are real, live witnesses that could put the nail in the Bush administration coffin if it was actually pursued. But we all know that it will never come to fruition, because the whole cry of “impeachment” is just part of the game the Democrats play to get their kooky base fired up. They have no real plans to impeach the President, because it wouldn’t really help them all that much; sure it would get rid of G.W. Bush, but then they would have to deal with Dick Cheney and that scares them to death.

So I’m all for impeaching President Bush! I could surely live with a couple of years of a take-no-prisoners President Cheney having the executive reigns in Washington; I’d pay money to see that happen and see what changes President Cheney would make.

Hey, we all gotta have dreams!