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Calling Senators is all well and good, and I have been doing it regularly, but I don't believe they think there will be any real consequences for them personally if they vote for amnesty. And they are right in that there is nothing citizens can do right now to exact any cost for their votes. I think it is time to up the ante and make a credible threat of immediate impeachment of President Bush on this issue. Millions of people calling their Congressional representatives and demanding that impeachment charges be brought against Bush for his failure to uphold his oath in enforcing our democratically enacted laws and for his usurpation of the legislative authority of the people will get the attention of the Senate and of the President.

Bush's acts exhibit extreme disdain and contempt for the legislative authority of the people on illegal immigration and he has substituted his own arbitrary and capricious whim for the rule of law as determined by the people through their elected representatives. He has implemented his personal open borders policy in defiance of our laws and against the will of the overwhelming majority of citizens. In doing this for the past 7 years he has rejected the basis of our constitution and our republican form of government -- the sovereignty of the people. He does not believe that "the people" have a say in this illegal immigration matter. He simply does not believe in our system of republican self-government.

All legislative authority in our republican form of government rests with the people which we exercise through our elected representatives. The House of Representatives is the guardian of our sovereignty and the constitutional remedy for a chief executive who arrogantly abuses the trust of the people by disregarding their laws is impeachment. The founders gave us this remedy of impeachment to provide a method short of revolution for the people to rise up and throw off the rule of a chief executive who subverts our system of republican self-government.

I spent considerable time explaining to a Congressional aide why it is the duty of the House to defend the legislative authority of the people against usurpation by President Bush. These are the most serious charges that can be brought because if a President can substitute his personal whim for the people's laws then we no longer have a republican form of government as guaranteed by the constitution. It is that simple. If we want to preserve self-government and the legislative authority of the people for ourselves and our descendants then we must impeach a President who so clearly and demonstrably refuses to be restrained from defying the people's laws and substituting his personal rule for will of the people.