Which part of, "Kiss my ass, I’m the Unitary Executive Commander Guy" haven’t you and Harry Reid figured out yet?
How many times are you going to bring a toothpick to a gun fight? How many times are you going to try to "compromise" with that smirking idiot from Crawford? How many times are we supposed to endure these humiliating contortions you call "working with the president?" A blank check for Bush is a blank check for Bush, even if you don’t call it a blank check. He just spit on your latest blank check. Congratulations.
Madame Speaker, ever since you blurted out, "Impeachment is off the table" on 60 Minutes last fall, you’ve stubbornly stayed the course on no Impeachment. You said, "it’s a waste of time." You’ve chosen to "negotiate" with Mr. 28 Percent instead. If you’re trying to prove you’re as delusional as he is, you’re doing a heckuva job.
Kos diarists keep explaining the necessity of IMPEACHMENT to you, but you seem to think you’re The Decider of the Democratic Party and that our job is to keep pretending this quagmire you got us into on 60 Minutes is a brilliant strategery for victory.
Meanwhile, THIS keeps bankrupting us and THIS keeps humiliating us and THIS is shoved in our face by the Commander Guy of the War Profiteers and Gonzo keeps laughing at us and we're all locked in the back seat of the DeciderMobile hurtling down the Highway to Hell with the Yellow Elephant of Texas blaring from the radio and the windshield splattered with blood.
WTF, Madame Speaker? Please excuse this question from the back seat, but "ARE WE THERE YET?"
Throughout the 2006 midterm election campaign, we fought for every vote. We fought in the red states like never before, we defended our candidates from Rovian smears and spoke out for our candidates in Jeb Bush's banana republic of Florida. We went door to door across Connecticut for Ned Lamont, we told the truth for Jon Tester under the big sky of Montana and marched for Jim Webb in the streets of Virginia. We took Congress away from Bush’s Republican hacks and gave it to you.
And what have you given us? Non-binding resolutions, blank checks for Bush, and staying the course on no Impeachment, that’s what you’ve given us, Madame Speaker.
I’ve been a Democrat all my life. I went door to door for Eugene McCarthy when I was 13 years old. I’ve seen Democrats cower and mumble and crawl away from showdowns with Republicans for forty years, and I’m fucking tired of it. You have to start Impeachment hearings. I don’t want to hear about not enough time, Madame Speaker. I don’t want to hear about not enough votes. We have a Constitution and it’s your job to enforce it. You took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend it, but you are not doing that.
Bush and Cheney have been an imminent threat to America ever since the Supreme Court handed them the White House in 2001. They are a clear and present danger, they are a walking, talking, democracy killing mushroom cloud over every American city.
Bush and Cheney are directly responsible for this bloody fiasco in Iraq. They are directly responsible for the pervasive abuses of power and obstruction of justice being exposed on a daily basis throughout the entire executive branch of the federal government. They are directly responsible for massive and blatantly illegal NSA spying on Americans, they are directly responsible for institutionalizing the torture of human beings in violation of the Geneva Conventions. They are directly responsible for crimes ranging from the exposure of a covert CIA operative to the subversion of elections and the relentless perpetration of fraud throughout the entire defense and intelligence establishments
Our ancestors made America a beacon of hope for the world, we must make it a beacon of hope once again. We are not bringing freedom or democracy to the Middle East, we are bringing chaos and death. The power we once wielded in defense of freedom has degenerated into reckless neo-con aggression. Our insensitivity to the suffering of innocents has become unconscionable.
We do not have an American president, we have a CIA network destroying, illegal wiretapping, human being torturing, American soldier killing son of a bitch for a president. After four gruesome years, what has Bush’s squandering of young lives and national treasure in Iraq gotten us? A besieged Green Zone in Baghdad and a shattered Army, that’s what it’s gotten us. What has it gotten Iraqis? Torture chambers. Death squads. Executions. Endless chaos. Endless fear. Endless death.
Progressives have been patient through years of adversity, but there is a limit to our patience. We have been tolerant of the refusal of Democrats to Impeach, but there is a limit to our tolerance. We have pleaded for Democrats to exhibit moral leadership, but moral leadership has been taken off the table in the name of political expediency.
Democrats need to quit hiding behind lame excuses. America needs Impeachment hearings. They must begin now. If Democrats do not Impeach, the misery and suffering and blood of all the victims of Bush and Cheney’s brutal seven-year rampage will be on their hands as well.