IMPEACHMENT BECOMING MORE PALATABLE

From Emphasis Added:

The Punchline

We are currently living through the rein of someone history will regard as one of the great failures in American history. What has been apparent to some since the moment Bush took office has now penetrated the consciousness even of Beltway insiders and other slow-witted creatures.

A recent Newsweek poll confirms this. Following last week’s miserable State of the Union speech, fully 58% say they wish the Bush presidency were “simply over.” (hat tip, Kos).

Well, guess what? That can happen. In a country where we impeached a President for an incidental offense stemming from illicit sexual conduct and removed the governor of our largest state because the people there just kinda felt like it, why is it not both possible and desirable to bring an end to the Bush-Cheney regime with its endless list of trespasses against the Constitution, common sense and American values – by this summer, say?

After surveying the damage of the last six years, spending two more years waiting for Bush to go away is too big a risk. Every day these criminal clowns remain in office brings us closer to another futile war, this time with Iran, and continues the parade of incompetence, intransigence and partisan mischief that will take us years or decades to recover from.

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Rascally Rob Salkowitz, who writes the always interesting and thought-provoking Emphasis Added, is decidedly to the right of me. I mean, he's decidedly to the left of what we generally tend to think of as conservative these days, but, for instance, he's no Noam Chomsky fan. That's why I'm utterly fascinated and excited by this unambiguous call for impeaching Bush. Personally, I've been calling for impeachment since 2003, but then I also think we need to completely dismantle the public school system and start over from scratch: I'm pretty close to radical on lots of issues, so my views in no way can be perceived as any sort of touchstone for where educated Americans are in their thought processes at the moment. But, like I said, Rob is more moderate, closer, I think, to where most thinking Americans are at the moment. For me, this is good news. It means we may very well start hearing respected American voices call for ousting Bush before his term ends.

God, I hope so!

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