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
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