Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Jay Inslee are lobbying legislators to cancel this week’s hearing on a resolution calling on Congress to investigate and consider impeaching President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Inslee and Murray, both Democrats who voted against the war, think state lawmakers holding hearings and voting on impeachment is a distraction from what Democrats are doing in Congress, including their efforts to end the war.
Murray’s vote against the Iraq war doesn’t seem to mean much today to anti-war activists. Last week, while Murray was meeting with a group of local police chiefs in Bellevue, protesters asked the chiefs to arrest the senator for war crimes.
The demonstrators were from Stand Up Seattle and the Green Party of Washington State, which are part of the local Occupation Project.
And a quote from the nutter-butters of Occupation Project about their request to have Murray arrested:
They didn’t do it, but in a just world they would have.
I was planning on going to the range on Thursday afternoon, and if this wasn’t both 40 miles away and in the opposite direction (south) of my residence from my workplace (north) , I would definitely be going to Oly instead.
Why can’t they do these things in the morning?