crossposted at my new Community Blog, My Left Wing
No, they’re letting the groundswell build right here in the blogosphere and in living rooms and in newspapers and on talk shows.
And in those arenas, lots of people are talking about impeachment. Half the country, in fact. A Google search for “Impeach Bush” finds 601,000 results.
Even Ralph Nader, for all his megalomania, god bless him, used his self-made bully pulpit to call for impeachment. Countless editorials and articles have called for impeachment. So, why are our Representatives not talking about impeachment?
We are at war, we don’t have the votes, we certainly don’t have a “fair and balanced” media on which to count…
But unlike the ludicrous absurdity of Clinton’s impeachment (wherein virtually the only ones crying to impeach were the Republican politicians and their right wing media minions), this issue is being discussed all over the country by the people who still count — We, the People.
It is incumbent upon us to raise our voices, to stick their feet to the fire, to demand answers, accountability, access to the paper trail. I believe there is more than enough reliable evidence to impeach this President* — but it is not a likely scenario. It is, however, likely that, if enough of us keep screaming about it loudly enough, the CONCEPT of Bush’s impeachment — and the justice in it — will get into and remain in the consciousness of the public and the all-important media.
I don’t believe GWB will be impeached. I think the chances are small that it will even be broached in Congress except as rhetoric.
But We, the People, can impeach him in our own inimitable fashion (and I DO mean inimitable)…
and impeach him We will.
So, fine, the most impeachable President in the history of the United States gets away scot-free.
Maybe he can be prosecuted once he’s out of office.
Sigh.
of impeachment. How can you bring down someone who is already DOWN at 44% approval?
Could you bring down a statue of Saddam Hussein that was already face down in the mud?
The last videos I saw of GWB ‘flipping the bird’ to reporters, and then a few days later, announcing his backdoor appointment of the ‘ace diplomat’ Bolton, gave me such a feeling of disgust.
In my judgment, Bush is not worthy of anger, only disgust and that is not enough fury to drive impeachment. He is going to go out with such a weaseling whimper that history has never before witnessed.
I’m not sure if he DID flip the reporters the bird, but we DEFINITELY have video of him doing it during a camera test:
Ha ha, his reputation for it, as you point out in your subtle way, led us to believe that he did.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002261.html
Even his thumbs up disgusts me. 🙂
To dream the impossible dream…to right the unthinkable wrong…
Gutsy post. Keep it up. Like the opposition to dismantling social security, this will be the level of support needed to impeach the president. We have to educate each other on this. Talk to people. Talk to groups.
Btw, your My Left Wing link doesn’t work.
It does now…
If we the people can make a difference, it will be written in history as “War Crimes of the Bush Administration”
If not, it will be another gala affair more expensive than Reagan’s….I’m gonna be sick now..
FYI–we have a couple of "Impeach Bush" bumper stickers in our Cafe Press shop. We don’t generally promote the shop much–trying not to be "uncouth" and all. Our main hope with the store is to earn enough "Cafe Cash" each month to pay for the premium store.
I voted slam dunk because I think every so-called ‘representative’ in DC would throw george’s job to the raving mob to protect their own. It’s a pretty comfy living they’ve got up there. george is small potatoes compared to the corporations who are really in charge. That’s the insurance and drug and bank people who pay a lot of salaries, not to mention the media. The question is will we go after them, and strip them of their constitutional powers? It’s gonna be a real battle after little georgie runs away crying.
on our cars. I’d like to have an IMPEACH DUBYA sticker for my car, enough extras to fill my trunk (there’s room for a couple of bodies in there my spouse says), and another one that says ASK ME FOR YOUR ‘IMPEACH DUBYA’ BUMPERSTICKER.