It seems that in Washington DC there is a great disconnect between the American people and the Congress, Senate, and ultimately with the President of the United States. Today comes the announcement from the President of the new Iraqi Government that the United States can leave anytime that it wishes. Now we all know that the President of the United States is not going to leave the country of Iraq, until he is good and ready to leave. In fact, I would dare to venture that the armed forces of the United States will not begin a full-scale pullout from Iraq, until Bush is safely out of office.
The terrible disconnect is obvious, the America people, Democrats and now more increasingly, Republicans alike, want this War in Iraq over and done with. So, what is Congress doing about it? Pretty much playing paddy cake with the President, that is what!
I have heard many people ask; "What about impeachment? Why isn’t the Senate impeaching the President?" Well, I have an answer for that. At this stage in the game, an impeachment trial against the President and Vice-President could be potentially political suicide for the Democrats. Because this President has made full use (some would say abuse but I shall not wade into waters of partisan opinion) of the powers of "Executive Privilege". Most, if not all, of the hard evidence of any criminal activity has been either withheld or redacted out of any documents that Congress has in their possession, thus making any case for impeaching the President of the United States a much more difficult one.
I do not by any means defend the actions of this President. It is obvious to a writer that there is and has been criminal behavior taking place in this administration. In fact, I am going to say something in the vein of Ann Coulter. Brace yourselves this could offend. While I believe that the shootings at Virginia Tech were a horrible and terrible tragedy, I am most horribly disappointed that it did not occur at the White House. It was such a tragic waste of good ammunition. That young man had a plausible notion of taking out some of the elitist snobs making life hard on the rest of us. He was just directing his focus at the wrong people. This is, of course, political snark, please; do not fill my inbox with hatred.
Although, I do not think that Congress is totally cut off from the will of the people. I believe that they are playing a game of strategy with the President. Every time he vetoes a bill passed to him, his numbers in the polls drop a little further. I believe that they are allowing the President to hang himself, with his own rope.