"The importance of timely action in terminating the Bush-Cheney administration is brushed aside as ... crazy"

it's far from crazy, and, for anyone with a clear-thinking head on their shoulders, it's the single most important issue the united states has ever faced... i'm glad robert parry has the huevos to step out and say what desperately needs to be said...

If one were simply considering what was “good for the country,” a reasonable idea might be to arrange a choreographed Agnew-Nixon pas de deux, with Cheney stepping down first (as Vice President Spiro Agnew did in 1973), a replacement vice president quickly getting approved, and then Bush bowing out (as President Richard Nixon did in 1974).

Since Virginia’s 80-year-old Republican Sen. John Warner has just announced he is leaving the Senate, he might make an excellent candidate for “caretaker” president, someone who could finish up Bush’s term and implement a bipartisan strategy for extricating U.S. forces from the Iraqi quagmire.

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In a nation that cared more about its soldiers and its long-term interests, the news shows and the political class would be exploring how these present-and-future disasters might be averted or reversed, how Bush and Cheney could be presented with “an offer they can’t refuse,” either resign or face the humiliation of bipartisan impeachment.

But the United States, circa 2007, doesn’t appear capable of acting expeditiously on behalf of its citizens or its national interests.

The importance of timely action in terminating the Bush-Cheney administration is brushed aside as unworthy of discussion, impossible, crazy. It is far simpler to condemn Larry Craig for his stall-to-stall footsie with a plainclothes cop than to hold Bush and Cheney accountable for an illegal war and a variety of other high crimes and misdemeanors.

So the drift toward the precipice continues with almost no one taking note of the chasm below.

god willing, some of those who REALLY have the good of the country at heart will step forward and tell 'em they gotta go...

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"Such excuses no longer are good enough"

damn right, they're not... while i may be a democrat, i certainly don't think living in argentina qualifies as living in the heartland, but, i can tell you this... i'm pissed...

In Washington, Democrats are blaming Republicans for the Senate's failure so far to vote on a resolution opposing a troop increase in Iraq.

But in the heartland, some voters say such excuses no longer are good enough.

Having banked on the promise that Democrats would force a change of course in Iraq if they won control of Congress, some of the people who helped the Democrats get there are growing impatient.

They're frustrated that Democrats sank so much energy into a nonbinding resolution then dropped the bipartisan plan of Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., like a hot potato when Republican leaders who support President Bush maneuvered them into a corner.

as i said above, i'm pissed, not impatient... and it's not only iraq i'm pissed about... it's the wholesale destruction of my country that has been taking place for over six years at the hands of the worst band of criminals in the nation's history...

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