Should Boulder Fix Potholes or Pacify Potheads?

The city of Boulder, CO, is considering going where no sane city has gone before - pushing an impeachment resolution against Bush and Cheney:

Boulder's elected leaders are expected to decide next week whether to draft and vote on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

For the past few weeks, activists have been showing up at Boulder City Council meetings, carrying signs, handing out "impeach" pins and asking City Council members to take up such a resolution. Similar measures have passed in cities across the country, including Detroit and Telluride.

Liz Robinson, one of the organizers of the effort, said people hoping to see impeachment proceedings have given congressional Democrats — who won a majority in the fall of 2006 — plenty of time to act.

But since they haven't, she said, locally elected officials should take up the slack.

"Whether or not it's the city's business directly, like potholes, I feel this affects all of us," she said. "We're the ones who are paying the taxes to support this administration's depredations, especially the war."

Impeachment proceedings would be worth doing even if they only put the last few months of Bush's eight years in office at risk, Robinson said.

The dead-enders on the wacky left are getting frantic as the days of the Bush administration wind down. They're quaking at the thought that they won't get their precious impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. Democratic lawmakers who are actually in a Constitutional position to pursue such an action don't want anything to do with it. They realize that it would be a lost cause and would quite likely hurt their presidential candidate during the general election campaign.

Advice to Boulder: Fix your potholes and ignore the potheads.