Saturday, May 19, 2007

Impeachment

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I have pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the towncrier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 3.2

Norla Antinoro, someone who says it trippingly yet devastatingly. Read how she compares Bill Clinton and George Bush, and then read what she has written about impeachment. I've quoted a bit here:

Bush and his right wing Dominionist supporters set out to reduce the effectiveness of the federal government while using it to line their pockets. It looks to me like he plans to do as much damage to what remains of that federal government as he can before he leaves office. He has his nice little escape at the end of the world where global warming won’t overheat him where he can run with the nest egg he has been accruing and IOUs from his supporters. He has no interest in the welfare of America, its people, or the world. He has taken the country into a possibly unrecoverable economic deficit and bankrupted the federal government. The next administration will be lucky if it can forestall the economic crash that will finally plunge the majority of the citizens of this country into poverty.

While part of the damage was a result of poor judgment, bad choices, poor planning, and mistaken ideas, a great deal of the damage done to this country was conscious and deliberate. Bush and his cronies plan to be safe and comfy inside their walled estates in the cool climes of southern South America when the world becomes a miserable hellhole for most of its human population, largely because of GW Bush and Co. and their self-interested disrespect for the citizens of this country and this planet. They know this crash is coming. They do not want to be forced to work to prevent it. They do not believe that it will make any important difference to their life style and, like war, it will offer them more opportunities for gouging the people and lining their pockets.

Like war profiteers always do, they do everything they can to sustain the struggle to maximize their power and their profit. As long as they remain in power they will continue as world wreckers and despoilers.

Scrape them off, America. Support every effort made by anyone toward impeachment of Cheney and Bush. Support all of the efforts being made to investigate and prosecute Cheney and remove him from office. Then support the impeachment of GW Bush, without question the worst president we have ever had - our misfortune.

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