Measure H? Why, Yes!

On the whole I really dislike the California Proposition system, in which California voters are asked to make the decisions that we pay our legislators to make. I mean, sometimes it's a no-brainer, like Prop 85 (the abortion waiting period and parental notification proposed amendment), but other times, like Prop 89 (the corporate tax increase, campaign contribution and expenditure limits statue), it takes more work to decide. I spent an hour last night reading through the ballot, sorting through the gazillion political fliers I've gotten in the last week, listening to Bill Clinton's messages on my cell phone, watching one tv station run all the conservative proposition ads and another run all the liberal ones, checking on who or what my union and the Democratic Party and the mayor of Berkeley and the Sierra Club think I should vote for. Whoo-hoo, what a way to spend a Saturday night.
Anyway, I'm sick of all of it -- and I know I'm not the only one, and it's probably even worse in those battleground states -- but there is one redeeming measure on Tuesday's ballot: Berkeley's Measure H:

Shall the City of Berkeley petition the United States House of Representatives to initiate proceedings for the impeachment and removal from office of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney and call upon the California State Legislature to submit a Resolution in support of impreachment to the United States House of Representatives?

First of all, who knew Dick Cheney's middle initial was B.? But also: you know what? I know this measure isn't going to do anything, and that everyone makes fun of Berkeley for all its lefty hippie pot-smoking legalized-prostitution-supporting out-of-touch-with-reality commie wacko "rules," but I love it. I love that I live in a place where Measure H will pass. Where we at least try. The rest of the country will have to wait until 2008, but in Berkeley we're kickin' 'em out 2006-style! In your face, Red States!