So former Senator George McGovern thinks we should impeach not only President Bush, but Vice President Cheney as well. Then we could have President Pelosi.

Here is his list of the high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the president and vice president:

Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly “high crimes and misdemeanors,” to use the constitutional standard.

From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team’s assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged — perhaps even by a congressional investigation.

In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion — by far the highest in our national history.

All of this has been done without the declaration of war from Congress that the Constitution clearly requires, in defiance of the U.N. Charter and in violation of international law. This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. Mr. McGovern, Sir, if you are going to make the accusation please back it up. In what way have they violated the Constitution?

By not having Congress declare war on Iraq? Did Congress declare war on Korea or on North Viet Nam? If so, I’d like for you to show me the references.

They went against the UN Charter? Show me exactly where in the Constitution it states we are to obey UN charters.

If they violated the Geneva Conventions (and I say if) please show me where in the Constitution it says we must obey the Geneva Conventions when fighting animals who kill for the fun of it.

The problem is they have shown signs of success in this war on terror and Iraq is calming down. Not where we want it yet, but it’s calming down. Even Pelosi and Reid have given up that drumbeat, at least temporarily.

The oath President Bush took was thus: “I George Walker Bush do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Exactly what part of the oath did he not uphold?

Vice President Cheney took this oath:

“I, Richard Cheney I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

What part has he not upheld?

Assuming you could get articles of impeachment against these two public servants, just how long do you think it would take to get them? Six months? One year? Two years?

And we have how much time left for them in office?

No wonder Richard Nixon beat you in a landslide.