Barking up the impeach tree
Yesterday, in the Boston Globe, one Letter to the editor, called for the impeachment of George W. Bush because we still have not found those sneaky Weapons of Mass Destruction that were a premise behind, well, a war. Maybe those weapons were shipped to Santa Claus in the North Pole, waiting to be delivered to good little boys and girls on Christmas Day. Imagine the fun your little ones could have with WMD: "Mommy, look! Santa left me a ton of Sarin so I can waste away those godless terrorists!"
Pardon the digression, but those calling for impeachment have yet to discover that both the Senate and the House are controlled by Republicans, and one would have to sincerely doubt that republicans would go after a sitting President in their own party who seems to be able to rally those whose patriotism comes without a sense of irony. The impeachment of President Clinton was a farcical exercise in partisan bickering: no one really cared that he lied about his relationship with an intern; it was just an excuse to weaken the power of the opposition: that'll teach them stinking Democrats to try passing universal health care or to get gays in the military! Who knows, gays in the military might lead to all kinds of bad things: bestiality and incest in the military, too! The horror of freely expressed sexual choice!
Calling for an impeachment of Bush runs second to the comparisons of Bush to Hitler in terms of sheer ridiculousness. Sure, the Bush Presidency is reactionary in a right-wing sort of way and is prone to double-speak, but comparing Bush to Hitler is dangerous and intellectually dishonest and reactionary in a left-wing, anti-Semitic sort of way. In other words, such extreme rhetoric diminishes the argument as coming from the lunatic fringe. Although, California nay be ready to recall their elected governor behind the power of a wealthy Republican representative: and one thought that democratic elections never received a mulligan.
Now, about those weapons...
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Yesterday, in the Boston Globe, one Letter to the editor, called for the impeachment of George W. Bush because we still have not found those sneaky Weapons of Mass Destruction that were a premise behind, well, a war. Maybe those weapons were shipped to Santa Claus in the North Pole, waiting to be delivered to good little boys and girls on Christmas Day. Imagine the fun your little ones could have with WMD: "Mommy, look! Santa left me a ton of Sarin so I can waste away those godless terrorists!"
Pardon the digression, but those calling for impeachment have yet to discover that both the Senate and the House are controlled by Republicans, and one would have to sincerely doubt that republicans would go after a sitting President in their own party who seems to be able to rally those whose patriotism comes without a sense of irony. The impeachment of President Clinton was a farcical exercise in partisan bickering: no one really cared that he lied about his relationship with an intern; it was just an excuse to weaken the power of the opposition: that'll teach them stinking Democrats to try passing universal health care or to get gays in the military! Who knows, gays in the military might lead to all kinds of bad things: bestiality and incest in the military, too! The horror of freely expressed sexual choice!
Calling for an impeachment of Bush runs second to the comparisons of Bush to Hitler in terms of sheer ridiculousness. Sure, the Bush Presidency is reactionary in a right-wing sort of way and is prone to double-speak, but comparing Bush to Hitler is dangerous and intellectually dishonest and reactionary in a left-wing, anti-Semitic sort of way. In other words, such extreme rhetoric diminishes the argument as coming from the lunatic fringe. Although, California nay be ready to recall their elected governor behind the power of a wealthy Republican representative: and one thought that democratic elections never received a mulligan.
Now, about those weapons...
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