A Critical Look At Bush’s Latest Address To The Nation Speech

A Critical Look At Bush’s Latest Address To The Nation Speech

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Just recently I spoke with a Congressional Democrat who will remain nameless about the impeachment of the Bush administration and if there was any movement by Democrats to move in that direction. At first he said simply, no.  But then he gave me a lengthy explanation of why the Congress was looking to stay clear of taking any real actions against the White House. His answer came as absolutely no surprise since it was the same excuse the Congressional Democrats have been giving since the first day that they took over office. What he said was that there was no movement by the Democrats towards impeachment since it would never pass in the Senate. Even if he was impeached in the House, so what?  Bush would still be in power and what would come out of the effort.  The hearings would come around during the height of Presidential campaigns next year and this would take attention away from Democrats struggle.  Furthermore, he went on to say, the Republicans would use the opportunity against the Democrats as the “lefts” way to divide the Country. After all this, he then asked me, quite rhetorically, what good could come out of it.

This glimpse into Nancy Pelosi’s reasoning to why impeachment was “off the table” is a clear sign that the Democrats are still a party that is still running scared. (Quick note, it was not Pelosi for whom an I was speaking with.)  What he did not mention in his answer to me was that a move to impeach would, at the very least, send a clear message to future occupiers of White House that they can’t bypass whatever laws they choose, that they are American employees and do not have the same rights as despots of Chile in the 70's or modern-day Sudan, and once they no longer follow the laws that come from the will of the people, then that leader, Republican or Democrat, independent or whatever should be removed by the order of law immediately. Remember, in 1973 Nixon resigned, not because of Democrats who were taking the cautious approach they are taken today, but because of pressure from his own party who saw the outrage permeating the country and saw him as a cancer on their own asses.

As for taking pressure off the Democrats presidential campaigns, we are being drowned by them. Looking at the early news on Yahoo news, two of the stories in the headlines alone were about the latest Democrats so-called debates. And with Democrats most likely to gain even more power next year almost by default since the Republicans are now in the same disarray that plagued the Democrats from the early 1960s to the early 2000's, the idea that an impeachment trial would take away from their steam is a great fiction, one that we all believed to some degree before they took power. I will focus on the fallacy later in this report.  As for “dividing the country,” the fear of Karl Rove still rings today. With recent polls showing Bush’s poll numbers around 29% and Cheney’s even lower, and with 66% of the US population disapproving of the actions of the White house it is hard to figure how an impeachment trial could possible divide a country at this late stage of the game.

But, or course, this is the great fiction. The idea that Democrats have the will to make any real change is not only unlikely but, ridiculous. Since they took over the control of Congress, the spending on the Iraq war is more than twice what it was a year ago. There are also more soldiers in the desert sands of Iraq than before January of 2007. Their excuse is that the Republicans blocked their effort to stop the war but all they had to do is cut the purse strings and starve the war to end. As a reminder, it was only 4 months of fighting with the White house before the Democrats folded and not only gave Bush what he wanted but gave him what amounts to a green light to go after Iran which is being fattened like a lamb being readied for slaughter. Instead of debating when to bring the troops home, which the country knew Bush would pay no respect to but also we knew that any bill that passed in Congress would be vetoed. Instead of wasting their time, the Democrats could just as easily have prepared articles of impeachment and, once again, cut the purse strings.

One last thing for this piece, the Democrats have waited till it was safe to go against the war and what is their best proposal?  To keep troops in Iraq for 120 more days and at the same time say that American lives are not worth losing in this war.  So what is the purpose of keeping this illegal war going into next year?

Until next time.

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