This letter is intended for all those folks who recognize that our country is being destroyed by an illegitimate, lawless president. He declared from the get go that his goal was to fundamentally transform our country. He is doing a terrific job. In the process, in order to remain in power and complete his mission, he has looked us straight in the eye and lied over and over. He has abused his power too many times to count. If you can’t see that, stop reading right now. Go a drink another Kool Aid.

Article 1., Section 3 of the Constitution provides for the impeachment of the President. All that is required to remove the President from office is the Concurrence of two thirds of the members of the Senate present. Trust me that all the Republican members of the Senate, currently numbering 45 would vote for impeachment in a heartbeat. That means that the votes of 22 Democrat or Independent Senators is needed to achieve the removal of President Obama and subsequently President Biden. How do we achieve that? The best way that I can think of is for each and every one of us and all our likeminded friends and relatives to notify their Democrat Senators that failure to join in this goal is paramount to a political kiss of death. All those Senators up for re-election in 2014 will be gone and ten more in 2016.

We really cannot abide three more years of decline. Our youth jobless, our elderly done in by healthcare rationing, our citizens impoverished by the cost of Obamacare, our national defense gutted and our Freedom suffering irreparable harm. We have the means. Now all we need is the will. The Greatest Generation will be remembered forever for preserving our Freedom. Let our generation not go down in history as the Gullible Generation that lost it. God Bless You.

Sincerely,

Joe McCann

Elk Lake, PA

Alas, lying is part of the human psyche. At one time or another we have all lied. What's worse is that none of us have told our last lie. But when the president of the United States lies, the consequences can be catastrophic. Such is the case with President George W. Bush and his three big lies.

To begin with the first lie we go back to the mid-'60s and problems arising from something called injection wells. Injection wells are deep boreholes used to dispose of unwanted and often hazardous industrial waste.

It was assumed to be a permanent way to cheaply sequester liquid refuse. But contamination of freshwater aquifers and private wells were soon linked to effluvia arising from these wells.

Partly in response to this the Clean Drinking Water Act of 1974 was enacted. It authorized the EPA to regulate injection wells.

But the Clean Drinking Act was squarely opposed to a technology that was developed by the Halliburton Oil Company in the 1940s and became ready for application in the late 1990s. The so- called Halliburton loophole was inserted into the Energy Policy Act of 2005 by President Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, a former chief executive of Halliburton and signed into law by Bush.

The Halliburton loophole stripped the EPA of its authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing and specifically exempted it from the Clean Drinking Water Act. The necessary exemption exposed hydraulic fracturing as an inherently dangerous process that otherwise would have been banned by the Clean Drinking Water Act.

In response to a whistler-blower's objections, a panel of experts was formed to examine the safety of hydraulic fracturing. The overwhelming consensus was that it was safe. But five of the seven-member panel had direct connections to the oil and gas industry.

Did Bush and Cheney stack the advisory panel in order to legalize hydraulic fracturing? To deny this is to admit to naivete.

GW's Big Lie No. 1: Fracking is a safe technology.

The second lie takes us to the largest expansion of an entitlement program in history, the Bush Medicare Prescription Drug Act signed into law in 2003, by Bush. But it wasn't an easy sell.

Bush low-balled the projected cost at $400 billion over a ten-year period to get it through the Republican-led Congress. It passed by only two votes. The result was predictable. The pharmaceutical companies saw this as a green light to start hiking prices. Today the projected ten-year cost is $1.2 trillion.

It was also a windfall to insurance companies. The Congressional Budget Office predicted that “at least one-third of private [insurance] companies would dump their retirees into the Medicare system as a result of the new bill.” And that's what happened.

The only explanation for Bush's grossly underestimated cost of $400 billion is payback for his supporters and votes from those who stood to gain by government intervention into pharmaceuticals.

GW's Big Lie No. 2: His drug bill was to aid the elderly.

While the first two lies involve health and money, the third includes lives and property as well.

Bush and team lied us into war with Iraq. The tactic was to frighten the bejesus out of us.

Bush: “The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons.”

Cheney: “[Saddam] has reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: “We know where [Iraq's WMDs] are.”

Secretary of State Colin Powell: “Iraq has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agents.”

John Brennan, Deputy Director of the CIA: “We were being asked to do things and to make sure that justification was out there.”

And scariest of all, Bush: “Iraq has a fleet of manned aerial vehicles.” (That's No. 43's definition of an airplane.)

GW's Big Lie No. 3: He would save the world from Saddam Hussein's WMDs and thwart his conspiracy with al-Qaeda, which were proved to exist only in the imagination of George “I am a war president” Bush.

This lie cost the lives of 4,500 servicemen, an estimated 500,000 Iraqi deaths, somewhere between $2 trillion and $6 trillion, ruination of that nation, and the dispersion of Muslim sectarian violence throughout the Mideast.

Sincerely,

Bob Scroggins

New Milford, PA