(crossposted from the frontpage of My Left Wing)
The much-vaunted ‘art of the possible’ has brought us to where we are today. Is anybody satisfied with that?
Are we okay with stolen elections, torture, war and fascism? Is this the America we were promised? Is it even close?
Oh but we should count our votes for impeachment before we even produce the evidence upon which it would be based – and then we should just give up and worship at the alter of ‘pragmatism’. Oh thank you God of the ‘Possible’. Thank you that things aren’t even worse! We’ll be good corporate lackeys and go along with the program. And if THAT doesn’t mollify the powers that be, we’ll just roll over and beg to be fucked again.
That’s a good plan, eh?
(more over the fold...)
If they had counted the votes before they started the proceedings against Nixon, they would not have bothered. Nixon, though well known for being a cheap crook, was (surprise, surprise) nevertheless loved in the Republic Party. It wasn’t until the embarrassing evidence began to pile up and the stench began wafting over the airways that the Republics began peeling away until at the end, just before their chief swine resigned in disgrace, there wasn’t a Republic in the land who would stand by him. In fact it was Pappa Bush who wrote the letter telling Nixon that he should just bail and spare everyone the embarrassment of further revelations.
The comparison between Bushco and Nixon is similar to the comparison between the Clinton impeachment and the (proposed) Bushco impeachment – which is to say that there is no comparison. While Nixon was a vile man and a petty crook, Bushco is an organized criminal empire that can only be described as evil.
Nixon ordered a third-rate burglary of Democratic Party headquarters. Bushco ordered:
the outright theft of two Presidential elections
the brutal torture of helpless prisoners
the illegal and immoral invasion of a sovereign nation
the bombing of innocent civilians
the desecration of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights
the kidnapping, rape, and murder of untold numbers of innocents
There simply is no comparison. Bushco makes Nixon look like a cub scout caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
"I will screw him in the ass!"
George W. Bush
When the evidence (even confined to that which is already well known to anyone who has been paying attention) is trotted out on the floor of Congress and placed under a spotlight and microscope for everyone to see, how many Republics will be able to withstand the withering heat of that fire?
Kidnapping? Torture? Rape? Murder? The giddy looting of the Treasury by the greedhead buddies of Bushco?
It will be like rats off of a sinking ship – just like it was with Nixon.
So count the votes before we even start the process? BRILLIANT!
Imagine Jon Stewart mimicking Leiberman:
Well, no thank you!
I refuse to be bullied into acquiescence by supposedly well-meaning people who want us to believe that we have no recourse – that we have to accept where we are, where Bushco and their enablers have dragged us kicking and screaming – and that we just have to like it or lump it.
Well fuck that!
These are dangerous and evil bastards who have seized our country and we have to take it back – or die trying!
This is no time to compromise! This is no time to pull to the center! This is no time to strike yet another bargain with the devil! This is no time to throw up our hands and say ‘oh well, we just don’t have the votes.’
This is the time to kick out the jams motherfuckers!
We’re moving that Overton window! All of our screaming and bitching has changed the national discourse! We are being heard loud and clear. We’ve won on net neutrality (for now). We have forced the issue on Iraq. We even have Hawky Hillary making noises about withdrawal. All our shouting from the rooftops has made a serious impact, so now we should STFU?
While we have fought and scratched for every inch, our more centrist brethren have been admonishing us to accept ‘reality’ – to embrace compromise and pull to the center. Well thank you for your help and support.
Yeah right!
It’s time to object, not acquiesce! It’s time to kick their asses, not butter their biscuits!
It’s time to say, ‘Hell NO we won’t go!’ It’s time to say, ‘fascism is NOT for America!’
It’s time to put the criminal bastards out of business and reclaim the government for the people!
It’s time to kick out the jams motherfuckers!
One does not reason with monsters or compromise with fools.
While our conservatives and centrists wring their hands over all the things they think just aren’t possible, the rest of us will change the fucking world!
But that’s okay, they can leave the heavy lifting to us – they always have – and we don’t mind a bit.