Reply #34: THIS is why I do not worry about thoughts of a bush IMPEACHMENT. [View All]

Many here worry that - "YIKES! That leaves us with the dickster!" Well, yeah. It does. And that's FINE with me.

It's only for a little while.
It'll actually be fun, if you understand the individual in question here: cheney is in his element, and at his best and most nefariously effective when he's operating in one of those undisclosed locations, secure bunkers, in the shadows, behind the scenes, under a rock, where NOBODY can see him or notice what he's up to. That's exactly where he likes it, because he feels that he should have to answer to NOBODY. He's still stuck in private-sector-CEO-land, mentality-wise, and hasn't made the switchover to the reality of being a PUBLIC SERVANT WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE AT EVERY MOMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who pay his salary and are affected by everything he does (that's SUPPOSEDLY on their behalf). He doesn't believe in that. And so far he's been able to play puppeteer, the man behind the curtain to whom we're not supposed to pay any attention.

Imagine him foisted out, abruptly and rudely, into the spotlight. Like so many cockroaches that are ever so much more comfortable operating out of view. Imagine him in the hot seat, center stage, where his business IS, finally, EVERYBODY'S, and all those questions and challenges and increasingly annoying pests like David Gregory are all focusing squarely on him. He won't get another good night's sleep, EVER, as long as that condition continues. He'll hate it. He'll be out of his comfort zone. He won't be able to operate easily or well in the manner to which he's become so accustomed, and which he feels is his divinely-anointed privilege. And his discomfort will be evident ACROSS THE BOARD. Oh, he'll SAY it's no different, and all that blather about doing the people's business and the rest of it. He'll SAY ANYTHING. And not a BIT of it will be true, or the least bit honest.

Look, I don't really enjoy the prospect of seeing such a vicious, crooked, conniving, vindictive, scheming, evil individual ascending to the presidency. But I like the idea of leaving bush in place, unchallenged, EVEN LESS. The lesson has to be taught. The punishment has to be meted out. The example has to be made. NOBODY is above the law. Not Nixon, not bush, not cheney. People not liking bush? True. They are not liking bush. But they flat-out HATE cheney. Even when bush had coattails, they didn't do much for VICE (as Maureen Dowd would call him). And there sure aren't any now!

So I say "bring 'em on." We DO need to IMPEACH and REMOVE bush from office. Or AT LEAST IMPEACH and let that sit on his record like a big boil on his ass that won't heal - for ever and ever and ever. And let cheney be dragged kicking and screaming into the spotlight. FINE.

Besides, let's remember Watergate. The resignation of Nixon (just ahead of his being impeached) left SUCH a PROFOUNDLY BAD TASTE in America's mouths that Republican ANYTHING went down like a vat of cod liver oil. If conditions in this country continue as they are, with bush losing popularity all over the map, and polls continuing to show that Democrats are gaining ground, and entities like Zogby are now routinely asking if you're ASHAMED to have bush as president, we WILL get the House back, and there will be IMPEACHMENT in the air a LOT more frequently and a lot more mainstream. The groundwork is already being laid for it now. And the kinds of conditions around the country that will get us to that point will also make it sheer HELL for cheney. Even if somebody more SEEMINGLY "harmless" is appointed to fill in, THAT person won't have much of a honeymoon, either. Even if it's contradicta. The same knuckle-draggers that think God is an angry, punishing, abusive father will not be able to find it in their hearts to vote a black person into high office when she tries to run for a term of her own. And everything will be SO soured on all things republi-CON that we should have some VERY nice success stories to come.

I remember Watergate. I remember Republicans running for office, or for reelection, who were almost apologizing for being Republicans. VERY few were holding their heads up proudly anyway. They were all shuffling around, all over the country, with their tails between their legs. I remember that. It was a SWEET, SWEET time. Practically all you had to say was that you were a Democrat and you were voted in, just on the strength of that, alone. The anti-Dem/liberal machinery is more ferocious now, but I suspect it, too, will be tarnished and won't speak with such a loud or fearsome voice by then, either. bush DOES have "coattails," in this case. He'll take a LOT of people down with him.

"pResident cheney" doesn't scare me. Allowing bush to complete his second four-year term is what DOES scare me. PLENTY. There's just too much still there that he can fuck up between now and January '09. I seriously don't think our country, OR OUR PLANET, can afford that.