Open Letter, Should Bush Be Impeached? (by BigBadJohnny)
This posting might seem controversial to some. Perhaps young people might take caution.
I received the results of an MSNBC survey from an online blogging friend (perhaps you have read the writing of Jan Mustoe) which indicated that 83% of those taking an MSNBC survey felt the President, that's, George Bush, should be impeached.
The following, an "open letter" , is a rewriting of my response.
"I had no idea that that many voters felt impeachment justified.
President Clinton faced a barrage of criticism for receiving some compliments from a young intern, in the white house, on weekends, holidays, or evenings in the oval office. the cigar inclusion seems to confirm that he didn't "return the compliment".
suppose a king, or any other classic leader on a world stage tries to run an area without an occasional favor of this sort from some sweet, caring associate. He would be laughed out of office!
this is so inconsistent! Maybe city people, such as myself, have a differing outlook from our country cousins.
this is the only time I've mentioned this particular feeling of mine to anyone, it being, perhaps a little too controversial.
BBJ"
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Bush impeachment
I've already said all I care to about this not-bloody-likely possibility here.
The ones who really should be impeached are not those who are in office. It's the ones who put them there. You and me.
I will become convinced that We the People are actually competent to exercise the right of self-government when we stop listening to politicians and pundits who tell us what we want to hear, and start listening to those who tell us what we need to know.
That (for instance) we need to beef up our presence in Iraq. That will mean expense. And casualties. Look. Did we mean what we said (and I mean "We" - we did not shout down our leaders when they went into Iraq, no we were all preaching the "freedom" gospel; we are responsible) when we said "Let's give Iraq freedom, justice, democracy"? If so, we gotta follow up. Remember these lines from the Battle Hymn of the Republic?
As he [Jesus] died to make men holy
Let us die to make men free.
We broke it, we must fix it. Or we're just craven cowards. And we will pay the price of cowardice.
That we need to pay our bills. Stop running up these monster deficits. That means taxes. And windfall profiteers that pay their fair share because they support the country and its people. None of this running off to tax shelters. It also means people getting up and doing things, often for less than they think they're supposed to be worth, because they support the country and its people.
That we need to support things like scientific research that generate tomorrow's profits. Things like Habitat for Humanity that, through meaningful charity today, generate tomorrow's "all for one and one for all" society. Instead of the me myself and I of American Idol worship - which is actually corporate slavery.
What I see now is a choice between the corporate thuggery of the Bush regime and the personal immorality of the Democracy - a Democracy, moreover, that has no option to the incompetent mismanagement of the Bush Administration but cutting and running. Because the Democracy thinks, with reason, that cutting and running is the only thing that will win votes from We the People.
Because we don't know our *sses from our elbows.
Incompetence
Thank you for your comment.
The Bush administration goes far beyond "incompetency". There anti-American actions are intentional, calculated.
I have repeatedly called Bush, Cheney "profiteers" trying to use their positions for gain of the corporations they represent.
This is clearly illegal, and goes beyond anythng that has gone before.
My point was that Bill Clinton, a wise and capable man, peraps one of the best Presidents in U.S. History, and hardworking may I add, was nearly impeached for some offenses so minor as to be laughable. Something more of interest to himself and his wife, than to the people of the U.S.