Lower Hudson Online — Since when do local citizens have “no authority” to criticize the country’s leadership?

A group of residents is lobbying the Nyack village board to join dozens of municipalities around the nation and adopt a resolution calling on Congress to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Group members say the administration lied about pre-war intelligence in Iraq, violated the Geneva Conventions and U.S. laws on prisoner torture, and violated citizens’ constitutional rights in various ways.

Nyack Republican Party Chairman Joseph Brady-Amoon has said the village board has no authority on the matter.

We beg to differ. While a village board can’t institute impeachment hearings, it most certainly can call for such action. The question is whether it should bother, not whether it can.(More)