One positive step -- Let's take another

It's great that we will have a majority of Democrats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. It's a start.

Now, we need to have investigations into the administration's disregard of the constitution, the rule of law, and the value of human life: the warrantless wiretaps, the secret renditions of "suspects" to countries where they will be tortured, the detentions at Guantanamo and elsewhere of people not shown to have any connection to terrorism, the lies that got us into Iraq, putting profit before security, supporting their friends' fraud in contracting with the government...

I can understand that Nancy Pelosi, who will be 3rd in line for the presidency, does not want to pursue impeachment. However, John Conyers, as chair of the Judiciary Committee, can call for investigation as to whether Cheney and Bush have committed misconduct serious enough to warrant censure, if not impeachment. Other committees can investigate the abuses within their jurisdiction. The investigations may not necessariy lead to impeachment; censure is another option for a response to misconduct.

To those who say that the country doesn't need to be put through investigation and possible impeachment, I ask:

Does the country deserve a precedent for accepting the willful disregard of the constitution and the law without question or consequences?

The administration must be held accountable for its actions.