NO REASON NOT TO IMPEACH

Okay, fine - I know Bush was exercising his constitutional privilage when he chose to commute Scooter Libby's sentence and make the man pay a fine. That just basically laid the groundwork for the full pardon he will grant Libby on January 20, 2009.

Funny how Bush remembers his privilages under the Constitution when he's not crapping on it.

Anyhow, Bush's latest flipping of the bird to the judiciary system, just compounds the continually piling on of offenses he's brought to the Presidency. This, after promising to restore dignity and honor to the White House, a "dignity and honor" that was supposedly trashed because Bill Clinton was getting his groove on in the Oval Office. At least, Clinton didn't go out and start wars because he wanted to, nor did he turn the White House into La Cosa Nostra and politicize the Justice Department, where the incompetent Alberto Gonzales still wears the job title of Attorney General, despite breaking the laws he swore to uphold.

That politicizing of the Justice Department also extended to a Supreme Court who has their collective foot on the gas to return this country to "those good ol' days" where Reamus shined shoes, Bessie cooked and cleaned someone else's house in order to support her family, and every person of color was spat upon, shat upon, beaten to the back of the bus that Black Men couldn't even get a job driving. Clarence Thomas actually believes that segregation and discrimination would have eventually been resolved ala Booker T. Washington.

W.E.B DuBois had other ideas about that. But, I'm digressing here. You want to know about why there's no reason not to impeach Bush and Cheney. Considering that Reagan's former NSA Chief, William Odom, is not only saying there's reason to impeach, he feels it's imperative, to the point, he's laid out a plan for impeachment, if the wimpy, spineless Democrats would only use it.

From DailyKos, via the Angry Rakkastan:

Retired three-star Army General William Odom threw Commander Guy under the bus today. And Odom is no ordinary three-star. From 1985-1988 he served as chief of the NSA under Ronald Reagan.

So take a deep breath, Red America: It’s going to be hard to spin this one.

Writing for Harvard University’s Nieman Watchdog, Odom called for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Now, he’s done this before, so that’s not where the news is. Rather, the good stuff came at the end of Odom’s piece—when he delivered a three-step plan by which Congress can force the President to give in. Here’s a summation of what Odom said:

1. Redefine what "supporting the troops" means.

2. Flatly refuse to appropriate war funds "for anything but withdrawal operations with a clear deadline for completion."

3. If that doesn’t work, Congress should impeach the President for "the ‘high crime’ of squandering the lives of soldiers and Marines for his own personal interest."

Well, well, now. Even the Reaganites have had it with GeeShrubya. But, GeeShrubya has never, really been all of the problem. We've had a predatory overlord running this country under the guise of being a Vice-President. A VP who shot his friend in the face...and made him apologize for shooting him in the face.

A Vice-President who just claimed he's not a member of the Executive Branch of government, when asked (subpeoned) to turn over his records regarding who visited him regarding the development of energy policy, and anything else that smelled of Eau De Criminale, with a touch of Fred Thompson's stale cigar and English Leather, Hai Karate or Brut.

A Vice President who told the now Senate Chair of the Judiciary, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, to go "F---" himself, and didn't draw a peep of a censure from the Senate for dissing one of its own members.

A Vice-President, who has a lesbian daughter that just made him a grandfather, and yet, he's in a government that's so homophobic, her partner, Heather Poe, has no rights as a human being because she's gay, and no parental rights to little Sam Cheney; how do you explain that?

It's bad enough that six children in this world has Richard Bruce Cheney for a grandfather. If my grandfathers were one soupcon of the evil that is Dick Cheney, I would shoot them both with those Winchester rifles they owned, and get off for justifiable homicide.

A Vice-President who's dared us to challenge him on anything pertaining to being constitutional, while he controls our "Decider Guy" like Edgar Bergen controlled Charlie McCarthy for the last seven years.

Well, in all honesty, I'd be a little intimidated, too, seeing as he shot his friend, Carl Worthington, in the face, and the guy came out of the hospital apologizing for all the trouble he caused Cheney by getting shot. WTH?

Read that DKos post. Then try to tell me there's no reason to impeach Bush and Cheney, when the evidence clearly shows there's no reason NOT to impeach. We will be forever derelict in our duties as American citizens if we do not.

CHENEY UNRAVELING...

THE PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL

So sez the rag we in DC read (unless we're drunk and then we're reading the "Moonie" ah, Washington Times). From WaPo (that's Washington Post for outside DC):

"Whether swearing at a Democrat on the Senate floor or calling Donald Rumsfeld the best defense secretary in U.S. history, his conduct makes even some Republicans nervous."

Or this:

But as his astonishing interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer laid bare last week, Cheney is increasingly out of touch with reality. He seems to think that by asserting things that are simply untrue, he can make others believe they are so.

Maybe that works within the White House. But for the rest of us, it's becoming a better bet to assume that everything -- or almost everything -- Cheney says is flat wrong.

Maybe, because Cheney shot a Texas lawyer in the face last summer, and literally got away with it (when you or I would be facing at the very least, an Assault with a Deadly Weapon Charge, even if the shooting was accidental), no one's willing to take him on because they might catch a face or belly full of buckshot.

Maybe because Cheney's still touchy about those five deferments from Vietnam he received when he sees Chuck Hagel or Jim Webb strolling the halls of the Senate buildings, because they are living reminders to him that they honored their country by doing their duty and going to Vietnam to serve, and he didn't.

Maybe, because Cheney can tell anyone, be they a U. S. Senator (Patrick Leahy, D-VT) or a member of the media who's been the lapdog for the entire six years of the debacle we call a Presidency (Wolf Blitzer) to F* Off at will, and they do it, he can tell the entire United States of America to go F* themselves and he expects full and total acquiescence.

I've said this before: Cheney is evil personified. He is the physical manifestation of Satan; or as close to it as a human being can get. So we should not be surprised that Americans found their voices as well as their spines and are "pushing back" on the rhetoric coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the last six years, that Cheney's growling, and growling very LOUDLY.

My friend, Pesky, defended me, his blog sister, from a person posting a comment about me that was undignified and had the stench of straight up playa hating. His post was that of "never touch a dying dog in the street, for the dog will still tear your hand off. And the breath I'm smelling is all dog..."

In the case of Dick Cheney, Pesky's comment is perfectly fitting for the Vice President who lied, cheated, stole, and yes, shot a person in the face, to keep the power that he obtained illegally, and is now sensing it's slipping away. He's reacting like a dying dog, or any wounded animal that's been cornered and has nowhere to go, and nothing to do but fight till it's dying breath. But, while he's in the throes of dying, a cornered animal is going to bite, claw and scratch until he takes that last breath, or some human being comes along and puts a bullet in it to put it out of it's misery.

My father used to hunt wild game. Once, he took my brother when he was old enough to shoot a gun. (Save your outrage for the Gun Guys over at BuzzFlash, okay?) The night before they went off hunting, I was eavesdropping on their conversation as my father gave instructions and advice to my brother. I remember my father telling my brother to make sure that if he shot game, to completely kill it - not to rely on killing it with one shot, because the animal is suffering and may injure others in his wounded state.

He said that about killing bears and mountain lions, too. Wounded, they are more dangerous, because they are in pain, and can inflict more damage because as a result of pain, they are lashing out. As a seven year old, I never forgot this piece of advice, though my father never took me hunting. I guess I remember it now, because Cheney reminds me of a wounded animal, lashing out at everyone telling him he's acting like he's off his meds.

He's a wounded animal. And Congress needs to strike that final blow and put him out of his misery. Can you spell I-M-P-E-A-C-M-E-N-T?