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Note: This started out as Part II of Love and Betrayal: Yearly Kos and the Rape of America. Because of its timeliness I’ve decided to post it first. My Ykos diary will have to wait.
We stand on the brink of complete disaster. What the neocons have wrought is coming home to roost. Our economy is a hollow shell and our Treasury is depleted. What Bushco and friends haven’t stolen they’ve squandered, what they haven’t broken or sold off to their friends they’ve neglected to the point of utter ruin.
This has been the most mean-spirited and corrupt reign in the history of our nation.
Are these the last days of American democracy?
We are not saying things off the top of our heads; we do have the operations and secret prison camps in Europe, we torture prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. This regarding the Geneva Conventions and the NSA spying programs warrantlessly. Bush is issuing signing statements, which is tantamount to nullifying congressional lawmaking powers. Cancellation of habeas corpus, enabling individuals as enemy combatants just by virtue of whether the president deems that hostile to U.S. interests. I mean this goes on and on for individual facts as to why one might say that America is becoming a dictatorship. And as far as the issues of the media and how the media is being controlled, I think there's many insiders who admit the same facts that I've stated, in fact, they come from such -- I mean, the issue here is not that the media is somehow an ideologue in cahoots with the government for ideological purposes. It's rather that the media is a moneymaking machine and is being controlled by the purse-strings -- through the government.
The Last Days of American Democracy?
Our armed forces have been devastated. With characteristic hypocrisy and hiding behind a slogan of ‘support the troops’ the Republicans have waged a vicious war on service men and women and veterans, slashing benefits and programs while ignoring solemn obligations.
The Bush administration opposes a Democratic effort to restore full educational benefits for returning veterans, according to an official's comments last week.
Administration Fights Dem Plan to Boost School Aid for Vets
They have refused to fund Traumatic Brain Injury research (the most common and most devastating injury for Iraq vets). They have screwed vets out of their benefits by arbitrarily mis-categorizing their disabilities. They have denied them the armor and equipment they need to survive. They have treated them like dirt at Walter Reed.
Walter Reed hospital scandal 'hits at the heartstrings of America'
Mounting revelations about decrepit housing and mistreatment of injured soldiers at the U.S. Army's major medical complex have touched a raw nerve with the public and have sparked fierce bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill.
The outcry has led a White House known for defending its embattled leaders to fire the Army secretary and relieve a two-star general of his command.
SFGate.com
The insults and offenses against veterans go on and on ad nauseum and are all the more disgusting for Bushco’s self-righteous claims to support the troops.
Today it's clear to many veterans that the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress think of them on other days of the year besides Veterans Day. They're thinking of veterans as they work to cut off VA healthcare. They're thinking of veterans when they refuse to address lingering health problems from the first Gulf War. They're thinking of veterans when they block full retirement and disability benefits. And they're thinking of veterans when Bush decides, yet again, not to attend a solider's funeral or pay a visit to those who are recovering from injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center just a few miles from the White House.
Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Veterans
Don’t give me any happy crap about ‘we don’t have proof’ to convict these scum. Their crimes are manifest, and their guilt is plain for all to see. If lying a nation into a bogus war isn’t grounds for impeachment, nothing is. And even without that the list of their transgressions is never-ending. Their crimes are legion.
Even more disturbing to me than what the neocons have done (with the vigorous and dogged support of the entire Republican Party damn their souls) is the enabling of it all by Democrats – and I’m not just talking Blue Dog Democrats. In my humble opinion, Nancy Pelosi screwed us all when she ‘took impeachment off the table’. I believe she and Harry Reid should resign immediately! This reeks of secret backroom deals. I am sick of being stabbed in the back and told it’s for my own good.
Not satisfied with having ruined the country, the middleclass, and the economy, Bush now wants to screw us all again one more time.
Who does he want to cut taxes for? The middle class? The lower class? No sir, he wants to cut taxes for corporations. Right before the little bugger skips out of office, he wants to screw us over financially one more time. Any Democrat who votes for this, and the Republicans who I'm sure will, is a turd.
Bush's Latest Screw You to the American People
Bush can’t get enough of spying on the Americans and the Democrats can’t roll over fast enough to help him do it.
Nest-of-Enablement
The dispute over whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury when he parsed words about George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program misses a larger point: the extraordinary secrecy surrounding these spying operations is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people.
Bush Isn't Spying on al Qaeda ... He's Spying on You
The Democrats cave to the 25% President and send another big FUCK YOU! to the American people.
The Washington Post, the New York Times, and politically-diverse organizations ranging from the John Birch Society and the Cato Institute to the American Civil Liberties Union all agree that the PAA is a serious mistake, and threat to the civil liberties of Americans. They point out that the law ignores the Fourth Amendment while, at the same time, hiding its actual operations in national security secrecy. Indeed, Congress was not even certain about the full extent of what it has authorized because President Bush and Vice-President Cheney refused to reveal it.
It is not likely that law-abiding Americans will even know that the U.S. Government's intelligence gathering operations are listening in on their calls to and from foreign countries, or similarly scanning emails. For this reason, it is not to be expected that many Americans will care about what the Democratic Congress has given a Republican president who has proven himself insensitive to anyone's privacy other than his own.
There is, however, a threat in this new law even greater than its robbing Americans of their communications privacy, which commentators and critics have virtually ignored. This law is another bold and blatant move by Bush to enhance the powers of the Executive branch at the expense of its constitutional co-equals.
The So-Called Protect America Act: Why Its Sweeping Amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Pose Not Only a Civil Liberties Threat, But a Greater Danger As Well
There is a cure – but there is only one.
Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis, not the cause of one. Impeachment proceedings must begin. This Administration has overreached. This is not about blackening the names of Bush and Cheney--they've done that for themselves. It's about preserving the genius of the Constitution, checks and balances, and separation of powers.
Members of Congress who are reading this, your role is critical now. The next time officials testilie, obfuscate, dodge and massage, here's the script:
"I cherish my country more than my party. Transparency is the bedrock of our government. This is what the United States is about and we are the ones who pay your paycheck. Answer this question or you're held in contempt right now."
Jesselyn Radak’s The Impeachment Cure, Bruce Fein & Not So Strange Bedfellows
But instead of impeachment, what our ‘leaders’ want to foist off on us are things like non-binding resolutions or censure. Such bullshit non-measures are almost sure to hurt Bush’s feelings. Censure would probably make Cheney cry.
Feingold introduces resolutions censuring Bush, others
Feingold’s footnote in history will read that the Democrats sure disapproved of what Bush did to the country – they didn’t do jack shit about it, but they definitely disapproved...in theory.
It's time to impeach Bush, Cheney and the public knows it
JOHN NICHOLS
Recently the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS devoted a full hour to the subject of impeaching George W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- the first such attention by a national network.
The remarkable thing about the response was not its size or intensity. After visiting more than a dozen states to address the issue, I have come to understand the depth of the public's desire for accountability.
But it was only after Moyers invited conservative legal scholar Bruce Fein and me to lay out not merely the specific grounds for impeachment but the historical rationale for applying the "heroic medicine" -- the Founders' preferred cure for a constitutional crisis -- that I fully understood the extent to which Americans recognize that this is about a lot more than the high crimes and misdemeanors of a regal president and his monarchical vice president.
The stakes are enormous: If Bush and Cheney are not held accountable, this administration will hand off to its successors a toolbox of powers greater than any executive has ever held -- more authority, concentrated in fewer hands, than the Founders could have conceived or would have allowed.
Source
The stakes are enormous! They are nothing less than the future of liberty and American democracy!
These bastards have devastated our country. We desperately need to remove them from power while we still can and restore the rule of law and those checks and balances in our government so brilliantly and presciently designed and implemented by the founding fathers. If we fail to do this, there will be dire consequences. If we fail to do this we will never again know anything but tyranny in America.
The prospect for success or failure is no longer relevant – if it ever was. Things are about to get very difficult in this country as a direct result of what’s been done to us by Bushco. We need to at least fight back – and impeachment is all we’ve got left.
And I don’t care what you think about Dennis Kucinich, the fact is that he is the ONLY candidate speaking truth to the American people.
ITMFA
P.S. I would like to start a conversation about a possible IMPEACHMENT march on Washington for Iraq Moratorium Day, September 21st 15th. On second though, let's make it the 15th as a massive march is already planned. Let's do it all together!
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| b28c |
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| Rike |
| pretty nice fear mongering. any plans for when the sky doesn't fall? |
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And don't forget about the administration's complete inaction to improve national security and its intentional deception and lies about the enemy we face (Osama bin Laden) and the reasons said enemy is fighting us. The latter alone is the single greatest reason why we are losing to al-Qaeda and its sympathizers.
The very fact that the Bush administration has and continues to spend at record rates only plays right into bin Laden's long-term plan of bleeding the U.S. economically, just as he and the Afghan mujahideen did to the Soviet Union in the Afghan War.
That says nothing of the fact that Bush's main adviser is none other than Karl Rove, perhaps the dirtiest politician (tactics-wise) in the history of Washington. A man who is almost definitely either behind or directly involved in the cover-up of Pat Tillman's death by friendly-fire (which may not have been accident...at least the facts and testimony of the medical examiner support that notion), the intentional leaking of Valerie Plame's name (fact is she was a CIA agent (she was also under NOC....the highest level of cover)), and the [illegal] firing of U.S. attorneys for purely political reasons.
The reality is that George W. Bush is an incompetent blind sheep who is nothing more than a talking head. Cheney, Rove and company are the persons who are actually running this country and shaping the administration's policies.
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