How many and what kinds of laws have to be broken...?
the threshold for imposing serious consequences on this administration has long since been crossed... asking how many and what kind of laws have to be broken is moot...
the real question is who is going to do something about it and when... the supreme court made a strong step in that direction with hamdan vs. rumsfeld... but, appallingly, we are already facing this scenario...
many are of the belief that the mid-term elections can begin to address the havoc being wreaked and take us in a new and better direction... i'm not so sure... for one thing, i'm not so sure that the elections are going to return the democrats to either house of congress and, two, neither am i sure that, even if the democrats do regain both houses, that we will see the substantive changes we so urgently need... given the level of destruction already perpetrated by the incumbent criminals, it's not conceivable to wait until 2008, yet what other option do we have...? and, even then, the odds that the right candidate will prevail are disturbingly low...
the question remains: who is going to do something about it and when...? imho, there needs to be a massive movement on the part of the american people - and soon - to insist that our government is clearly and seriously broken, to demand that those responsible are held accountable, and to insure that the people who can set about fixing the mess are put in place... Submit To Propeller
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How many laws have to be broken before the President, the Vice President, and the "we were just following orders" crowd are held accountable? What kinds of laws have to be broken before anyone in this administration has to answer to the American people, and in this case, to the international community?
The bar for High Crimes has been set so high now that for a sitting President to be impeached, he would be have to actually commit an act of murder personally, live and in color, while simultaneously burning the flag, pissing on a soldier's uniform, and singing the national anthem in Persian.
That is, unless the President is a Democrat; then all he needs to do is receive fellatio in the oval office from a buxom young intern. A Republican President and his administration, however, can basically dismantle the government in a Fujimori-style coup, and their followers -- again, helped along by state-run propaganda -- will simply applaud from under their beds, ever-hiding from the big Osama threat.
the real question is who is going to do something about it and when... the supreme court made a strong step in that direction with hamdan vs. rumsfeld... but, appallingly, we are already facing this scenario...
The President breaks a law. A court rules that the President broke the law. Our Congress then responds swiftly by vowing to introduce a bill that would make the President's actions retroactively legal, thereby showing that his astute reading of the Constitution was simply ahead of its time. Then the President signs the bill into law, which he has the option to disregard according to his own signing edict -- which he has already done at least 750 times.
many are of the belief that the mid-term elections can begin to address the havoc being wreaked and take us in a new and better direction... i'm not so sure... for one thing, i'm not so sure that the elections are going to return the democrats to either house of congress and, two, neither am i sure that, even if the democrats do regain both houses, that we will see the substantive changes we so urgently need... given the level of destruction already perpetrated by the incumbent criminals, it's not conceivable to wait until 2008, yet what other option do we have...? and, even then, the odds that the right candidate will prevail are disturbingly low...
the question remains: who is going to do something about it and when...? imho, there needs to be a massive movement on the part of the american people - and soon - to insist that our government is clearly and seriously broken, to demand that those responsible are held accountable, and to insure that the people who can set about fixing the mess are put in place... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
7/03/2006
