June 12 (LPAC)--Former U.S. Rep. Major R. Owens (D) of New York called for Congress to move "The Impeachment Imperative" now, arguing, "Progressive caution is our greatest enemy," in a June 11 op-ed appearing in the Huffington Post. He reminds people that the freshman Congressmen who voted "No" on the "Bush war-extension" funding bill in late May, "know how they got elected" referring to the "New Politics" ushered in on Nov. 7, 2006 by a strong youth vote demanding an end to the war and an economic policy for the future. These freshman he calls the "Waters-Woolsey freshman" -- that is Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey who lead the "Out of Iraq" caucus. Unlike the "No" freshman who "outnumbered" the "Yes" freshman, Owens dubs the latter "Emanuel freshman" referring to Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Il.) whose ties to Wall Street are known to drive his political strategy.

Owens called Democrats' effort to block new funds for the Iraq war and redeployment of troops the "first front" in the battle to end Bush and Cheney's "evil blunders." He then demands, "Energies must now be redirected and mobilized to open the second front: The Impeachment Imperative." The veteran congressman argued, "Opening the impeachment front is as important to winning the beach in Iraq as the launching of the Normandy invasion on D-Day was for WW2." And, like Lyndon LaRouche's May 23 rebuke of the Democratic leadership's capitulation on the war supplemental bill, Owens insists, "Our refusal to use [impeachment] is a wreckless blunder of omission." Forget "timetable technicalities," he says, "Let there be an impeachment, an indictment, even if there's no time left for a Senate trial. Leave it to history to be the judge and jury."

Congress' conducting of oversight hearings is "laudable" but they have little impact on voter consciousness and run the risk of "producing a new apathy. So, he argues, "Instead of encouraging a trivialization of the investigations, impeachment proceedings would" create a "serious event of national significance" jolting the public and media into reality. "Impeachment would also command the priority attention of the best Republican minds..."