If Ds And Rs Are Serious Impeach Jefferson

J.J. Jackson* | May 30, 2006

A lot of people in Congress give lip service to fighting the “culture of corruption”. However aside from that lip service most of the time each side is more busy and concerned with pointing fingers at the other side and making unfounded accusations about the other side’s members with the Democrats edging out the Republicans slightly in their faux fury.

However we have before Congress a real case that amounts to exactly what the founding fathers meant the impeachment procedures granted in the Constitution to be used for. Congressman William Jefferson is in pretty much deep doo doo. It is going to take some serious spin to explain how $90k of the $100k he was caught on tape accepting as a bribe was found in his possession. It’s a far cry from Tom DeLay being accused of a crime that wasn’t a crime when the crime was committed for example.

Instead we have House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi calling politely for Jefferson to simply resign his seat on the Ways and Means Committee. If she was serious she would have drawn up articles of impeachment already and submitted them. Heck she could have won some brownie points with me for doing that even though she is a stark raving mad liberal. And what harm would it have done? Absolutely none because the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, really aren’t interested in cleaning up clear cases of corruption and impeaching their own. Few would have voted to proceed and that is what is really sad beyond all else.

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