If Bush is not impeached, then America is no longer a democracy.
The Democrats are now reduced to proposing new laws saying Bush has to follow the old laws. If they're passed, Bush will simply sign them into law- along with a signing statement saying that he doesn't have to follow them, either.
The simple fact is that Bush is the only President ever to openly admit to committing an impeachable felony. Impeachable offenses are humdrum, workaday behavior for Shrubco. On over seven hundred occasions Bush has written signing statements in which he signs a new bill into law- and then amends it, unconstitutionally, to say that he doesn't have to follow the law.
If Bush isn't impeached, then America simply isn't a democracy. It's a dictatorship, and no amount of bicameral window dressing will change that fact, however much it may help the average American sleep at night. Remember Sinclair Lewis and It Can't Happen Here: the first thing President Buzz Windrip did was to reduce Congress and the courts to an "advisory capacity." A bit of garnish, like parsley, with no nutritional value, but it makes the plate of rat poison look so very pretty.
The fact of the matter is that it's shameful that the Democrats haven't done anything, and the fact that they haven't proves that they aren't interested in democracy, or even in personal power. The Democrats are the Alan Colmeses of Congress- they are happy to warm seats as whipping-boys for the Nazanderthals. The fact that they are in the minority means nothing. African Americans were in the minority in the 1960's south, and unlike the Democrats, they weren't pampered. And they won. What are you people afraid of? That Karl Rove will say nasty things about you? Then what will you do when they bring out the police dogs?
When the President has become a dictator, you stop him. I don't care if you filibuster every single bill that comes before Congress. I don't care if you chain yourself to the podium. You just do it.
My plan is simple. The Democrats get one last chance, because I'm grasping at straws. When they win both houses of Congress in November, they impeach Bush and Cheney. Period. And if they don't do that, we never vote Democrat again. Why throw away our votes on parsley, when we could vote Green?
If you want your democracy back, make one thing clear to your representatives in Congress: once they're the majority party, either Bush is impeached, or the Democratic party and the Greens are going to trade places.
The simple fact is that Bush is the only President ever to openly admit to committing an impeachable felony. Impeachable offenses are humdrum, workaday behavior for Shrubco. On over seven hundred occasions Bush has written signing statements in which he signs a new bill into law- and then amends it, unconstitutionally, to say that he doesn't have to follow the law.
If Bush isn't impeached, then America simply isn't a democracy. It's a dictatorship, and no amount of bicameral window dressing will change that fact, however much it may help the average American sleep at night. Remember Sinclair Lewis and It Can't Happen Here: the first thing President Buzz Windrip did was to reduce Congress and the courts to an "advisory capacity." A bit of garnish, like parsley, with no nutritional value, but it makes the plate of rat poison look so very pretty.
The fact of the matter is that it's shameful that the Democrats haven't done anything, and the fact that they haven't proves that they aren't interested in democracy, or even in personal power. The Democrats are the Alan Colmeses of Congress- they are happy to warm seats as whipping-boys for the Nazanderthals. The fact that they are in the minority means nothing. African Americans were in the minority in the 1960's south, and unlike the Democrats, they weren't pampered. And they won. What are you people afraid of? That Karl Rove will say nasty things about you? Then what will you do when they bring out the police dogs?
When the President has become a dictator, you stop him. I don't care if you filibuster every single bill that comes before Congress. I don't care if you chain yourself to the podium. You just do it.
My plan is simple. The Democrats get one last chance, because I'm grasping at straws. When they win both houses of Congress in November, they impeach Bush and Cheney. Period. And if they don't do that, we never vote Democrat again. Why throw away our votes on parsley, when we could vote Green?
If you want your democracy back, make one thing clear to your representatives in Congress: once they're the majority party, either Bush is impeached, or the Democratic party and the Greens are going to trade places.
posted by Wintermute at 6:07 PM
1 Comments:
It is stultifying. You have to wonder if President Bush the rest of the cabal perched precariously atop the executive branch are looking towards 2007/2008 with dread. They should be. The numerous and repeated prima-facie violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is really the tip of the iceberg. In an actual democracy, they would be systematically impeached and then prosecuted for the numerous federal and international crimes that they have committed. International treaties have the full weight of federal laws, thus the purposeful violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty should have been enough sufficient justification for impeachment. And that's just US law, never mind the continuing and grave violations of the Geneva Conventions, most notably Aggression, the supreme international crime.
The real question is will the dems actually do something when (if) they take back Congress. The 6 year backlash could be helpful but there are also startling few congressional districts in play. The last election had an incumbent retention rate of about 96% and even if they do take back congress, do they do anything? Clinton seemed content to let Reagan and Bush 41's sleeping dogs lie. If the dems start pointing wildly accusatory fingers in 2007, they will need to be very circumspect about how they proceed because Clinton is clearly guilty of a number of the same international crimes that Bush is. It's useful to remember that there are actually three parties in US politics and almost all politicians belong to two of them. Republicans, Democrats and Business. We might vote the GOP out of the majority but it will be a long walk in the sun before we manage to de-elect the Business party.
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