Coups, Impeachment, Impotent Parties and Getting Away With Murder
When I was little, I remember trying to help my mother pull weeds in her magnificent garden (which was later burned when a neighbor sprayed
pesticides on the hill above it). "Get the roots," she would say scowling as another little pile of leaves would fly into the air. I was using one of those forked, wooden handled weeding tools and deciding it was really stupid for getting the roots of weeds. "Oh for God's sakes," she said grabbing the weeding tool from me, "let me do it." Of course, the weeds went flying, intact roots and all.
In this way, George Bush has been impeached by fiat. As I listen to the hearings on Iraq and the results of all the various "study groups", I also hear Pentagon officials, former military officials, recently empowered Democrats, and even some Republicans saying to Bush, "Oh for God sakes Bush, let us do it." My analysis is that the United States is just now coming out of what was essentially a peaceful coup compelte with the full participation of the only other opposing party we 'got'. Al Gore was a full participant in the coup, knowingly or unknowingly and even though I think it is nifty that he is now warning us we are going to burn or drown with our own extinction (and we probably deserve it), every time I see him, I still picture him in Michael Moore's movie denying the right of the Black Caucus to cast a deciding vote that could have stopped the takeover of our government. What an ingenious coup--to even get the oppositon to participate in it. The coup that started in the year 2000 is now coming to an end but it isn't coming to an end because of any overwhelming passion or recognition by any one in power of what was happening to our country. It is coming to an end by the sheer incompetence of the Bush Administration and the NeoCons that kidnapped our Executive Office, our Congress and even our Judiciary. We should be grateful that they are so incompetent and out of touch or perhaps this nightmare would be continuing because apparently there was no group within our goverment to give a damn otherwise.
You can break something and the pieces can lie on the ground for quite awhile as long as you walk around them but at what point do you move your ass, bend over, and pick them up? And why wait for the thing to break in the first place especially if you know it's prone to falling apart? This worries me tremendously. Everyone was waiting for the thing to break before they moved their asses.
The questions so many of us have been asking for 6 years are now coming out--who was really behind 9/11? Why did they lie us into the war with Iraq? How did Bush and Cheney corral so many thugs to work for their tax-supported version of a Mafia? Why the tremendous overcharges by the corporate mercenaries in Iraq and where is this money? These are coming out now--six years later. The crimes of this administration will go down in history as nearly incomprehensible and why did they get away with it for 6 years? Where in the flying fuck were the Democrats? Again, what if this administration was in fact, incredibly competent at covering up their shit, would we be stuck with this regime another 6-8-10 years because no one would find the balls to God forbid, DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?
We should all be very very concerned about this. One election does not a healthy goverment make. The Democrats are still spineless. In spite of the fact that this is the most corrupt president in American history, immediately upon coming into office, Nancy Pelosi announces Impeachment is Off The Table. I ask you, fucking why? Why is impeachment off the table? This horrible mess. The thousands dead. The thousands yet to die.
The lies, the "disappeared" money from Halliburton. Ms. Pelosi, just how much worse would it have to get before impeachment is ON THE TABLE? Why don't you issue criteria and when the corruption hits what you feel are acceptable levels, can we put impeachment on the table? Just not bad enough? Is that the deal?
If the Bush regime walks away from this mess,if no one is prosecuted or even censured, if six years of intentional undermining of our consitution
occurs, then no election will insure the future of our nation because national justice will have died in the coup of 2000 and the message will be to future administrations that if you just play the game right, you can get away with murder.