The New York Sun scoops the world with the revelation that prosecutors in the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial allege President Bush himself authorized the leak of classified information from the highly secret National Intelligence Estimate that led to the disclosure that Valerie Plame was a covert CIA agent. Plame was “outed” only 8 days after her husband, James Wilson, a former ambassador, accused the president of lying when he said Iraq had attempted to buy Nigerian uranium in the State of the Union Address. Prosecutors’ court filings say Libby told a grand jury that he was told by Cheney to release the information, but that he had refused because the NIE was so secret and that the vice president later told him that the go-ahead was given by the president himself. Libby then met with news reporters and disclosed Plame’s identity.
With this Republican controlled Congress, there will be nothing. In the interest of the Republic in mind, this president should now be impeached for this as well as the unauthorized wiretapping of Americans’ cell phone conversations in known violation of the law. This president has even had the gall to tell the Supreme Court that they cannot decide whether his administration is violating the law because he’s the president and he said so. The detention of citizen and non citizen “combatants” and others in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere across the globe — “renditions” — is such a complete fascist idea as to boggle the mind of any thoughtful believer in democracy.
I thought the news of Tom DeLay stepping down was big, but it’s small potatoes compared to this.
I seriously believe this president should be impeached for the good of the country. He led us into an unnecessary war based on lies he perpetuated by breaking the law and he is continuing this war in Iraq and elsewhere by diminishing the rights of us all here at home. This is not about my disgust at the growth of the deficit that comes from his tax cuts for the rich. This is not about my dismay at seeing programs that help common people cut so that oil, pharmaceutical, insurance and banking industries can benefit. This is about high crimes and misdemeanors. This man is a traitor to his country and its ideals, the highest crime any president can commit. In the same way Bill Clinton was impeached for partisan political gain, this president will not be impeached for the same reasons by the same people.
The tree of liberty must at times be watered with the blood of tyrants.
If we wish to remain free, we must rid ourselves of this nascent dictator.
Strong words, I realize.
But these are desperate times and they call for desperate measures.
If I knew what to do other than bloviate on this blog, I’d do it.
It’s too late, man.
The Crips and the Bloods have taken over, only they call themselves “Republicans” and “Democrats.” Their main loyalty, no matter what they say, is #1) to themselves individually #2) to the gang, and way down the list at #100,457 [maybe]) to the country and its people.
Republicans will go along with anything Bush says or does, because he’s their “leader” and the first rule of politics is: Kiss The Ass Of Those In Power, In Hopes One Day You Might Become THE MAN Yourself. Because that’s your real goal, to become THE MAN and then leave a LEGACY—not to do what might be best for the people of Amerika. You gotta do what’s right for YOU and YOUR GANG. You gotta represent for your homies, even when they do unbelievably stupid things.
Democrats show the same blind loyalty / stupidity when their boy [or girl] runs the show. “Anything you want to do is A-OK, because we’re all in the same gang. Party Loyalty uber alles!” Do not break ranks, even if those ranks are rank, indeed.
The Dems won’t push for impeachment because they’re too chickenshit to push for anything. The Republicans are assholes, but one thing you gotta say about them is, they don’t mind fighting. Anytime you have one group who’ll fight and another that won’t, the one that won’t fight gets its ass kicked each and every time, without exception, world without end, amen. I love my Dem friends, but you’re all pussies. Suggestion: Try growing a pair and stop worrying about being considered “fringe.” Be loudly and proudly Liberal or Progressive or whatever the fuck the new palatable descriptor is. Out-shout and out-slug the ReTHUGlicans. Learn. To. Fight.
I find it interesting and not just a little ironic that a country that prides itself on the ideal of a free market and the enormous consumer choice that brings can’t seem to find a way to have more than two—count ‘em, just TWO—political parties, both of which SUCK HORRIBLY.
The French are looking more and more intelligent. When they want to get something done, they hit the streets by the hundreds of thousands and keep doing so until something gives. And if that doesn’t work, they strike. You think if the French had a Bush-like president, they wouldn’t have shut the place down by now?
Remember these words: General strike. Because someday, if we Amerikans ever re-grow our balls, we might want to consider such a thing. (IE, Bush gets impeached or we shut this country DOWN.)
But, no. We’re much too civilized for that.