Bush is Nuts

Kucinich presents Articles of Impeachment

Last Tuesday, Presidential candidate and Democratic congressman from Ohio Dennis Kucinich presented articles of impeachment against Vice-President Cheney to the US Congress. This is the first step in the process for congress to remove from office a member of the executive. In a nutshell, Kucinich's resolution states that VP Cheney acted against his oath to protect the US Constitution and the national interests in pursuing the invasion of Iraq on false pretenses and fabricated evidence.

Amazingly, the congress voted to keep this resolution alive, and to debate it. Even more amazingly, a MAJORITY of REPUBLICANS did this! Like his previous attempt to impeach Cheney, H.Res.333, Kucinich's H.Res.799 is now referred to the House judiciary committee.

US voters: contact your representatives in support of House Resolution 799. Check it out - this is important:



WikiPedia has more information on this bill (and its predecessor).

War is a soulless void

When will we have the courage to stand up to Bush and his gang, and end this murder in Iraq, and put the war criminals to justice?

Prophets are not those who speak of piety and duty from pulpits -- few people in pulpits have much worth listening to -- but it is the battered wrecks of men and women who return from Iraq and speak the halting words we do not want to hear, words that we must listen to and heed to know ourselves. They tell us war is a soulless void. They have seen and tasted how war plunges us to barbarity, perversion, pain and an unchecked orgy of death. And it is their testimonies alone that have the redemptive power to save us from ourselves.

Accustomed to Their Own Atrocities in Iraq, U.S. Soldiers Have Become Murderers - By Chris Hedges, Adbusters. Posted July 27, 2007.

Read this - and weep ...

The prophetic intestinal trakt

All hail the gut! Michael Chertoff's gut hath spoken! And it brought us tales of horror and destruction. Be afraid America, sayeth the gut.

How is that for a blatantly fearmongering nonsense statement from the Chief of Homeland Security - no evidence, just a "gut feeling" - huh??

Naturally, Keith Olbermann has a thing or two to comment on Chertoff's reference to his intestinal pronouncements.

Impeach Cheney!

The calls for Impeachment of the perpetrator-in-chief and his Bushista cabal have become louder and more articulate in the past few months. Director Robert Greenwald created the video above to illustrate House Resolution 333, which proposes articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. Sign the petiton! I think the strategy of impeaching Dick "go-fuck-yourself" Cheney first has merit. The American People need to send Cheney this message: "Fuck me!!?? and my constitution??!! No, buddy ... Fuck you!!!"

Sorry about the rough language there, but they started it. They have been using dirty words all along, and the f-word to Senator Leahy was by far not the worst. Words like "mushroom cloud" or "aluminum tubes" or "weapons of mass destruction" did a lot more damage, and ended up representing a big, fat, obscene middle-finger gesture to the American People and the US Constitution.

It is time that the American People returned the gesture, and showed that Bushistas that they will not get away with High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The worst week ever ...

For these two jerks ...

The crumbling empire

The trend of the Shrubman's approval ratings since his so-called election in 2000 speak volumes about whether or not he is getting away with screwing over America. And this is no thanks to either the mainstream media posse (the supposed watchdogs), nor the mainstream Democrat lapdogs(the supposed opposition).

Tom Engelhardt latest column takes a closer look at the crumbling imperial edifice of Bush's neocon cabal:

You can count on one thing. All over Washington, Republicans are at least as capable as I am of watching and interpreting the polling version of the smash-up of the Bush administration. With each new poll, the numbers creep lower yet. Presidential approval in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll dropped another 3% in the last month and now sits at 38%, while disapproval of the President continues to strengthen -- 47% of Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President's handling of the presidency, only 20% "strongly approve." (62%, by the way, disapprove of the President's handling of the war in Iraq.)

Behind these figures lurk worse ones. When asked, for instance, whether they would vote for a generic Democrat or Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, those polled chose the generic Democrat by a startling 55-40%, the largest such gap yet. In addition, Democrats have now become the default party Americans "trust" almost across the board on issues, even in this poll edging the Republicans out by a single percentage point on the handling of terrorism.

Commenting on a recent Ipsos-AP poll showing Democrats and Republicans in a tie on the question, "Who do you trust to do a better job of protecting the country," GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio said: "These numbers are scary. We've lost every advantage we've ever had. The good news is Democrats don't have much of a plan. The bad news is they may not need one." Surprisingly, despite the way Democrats have shied off the subject, a near-majority (45%) of those polled were also in favor of some kind of Feingold-like censure of the President for listening in on citizens without prior court approval.

The words connected to almost any new poll these days are "hit a new low." Other recent new lows were reached by that AP-Ipsos poll and by a Fox News poll where presidential approval was at 36%. Or take a recent state poll in California, where Bush has admittedly never been a popular figure. Still, a 32% approval rating? Or check out the trajectory of Bush polling approval numbers from September 11, 2001 to today. Despite various bumps and plateaus -- including a conveniently engineered, Karl Rovian bump just before election 2004 -- it's been a slow, ever-downward path that, in early 2005, dipped decisively under 50%; by the end of 2004 had crossed the 40% threshold; and is, at present, in the mid-30% range.

Tomgram: History Ambushes the Bush Administration Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com, April 16, 2006

Yes, it's beginning to look like if you give these imperialist neo-whatever-con-artists enough rope, they eventually hang themselves. But who is going to clean out the rubble, rebuild Iraq, and pay the bills after their party is over? You and I. Who is going to comfort the families who lost their loved ones in this unecessary war? Maybe you or I will have an opportunity to try. Who will help Iraq rebuild? Who will help Iraq heal the wounds of this war and soothe the pain of their losses? Who??

UPDATE 4/24 - CNN Poll: 32 percent approval for Shrub's job as Prezman

Bush is still NUTS, but ...

... I do agree with the shrubman on the guestworker issue. For different reasons, but I do agree with removing millions of hardworking immigrants from the legal twilight zone of being "undocumented" or "illegal" aliens. On this issue, the racist, anti-immigration wingnuts are the real NUTcases. Build a frigging wall along the border to Mexico? These people are crazy. Before you know it they'll want to invade countries in the Middle East to secure access to oil ... uh, never mind ...

The immoral system of quasi-slavery and exploitation under which so many immigrants suffer is one of the great human rights crises on this continent. The only way to deal with it is to give everyone who wants to come to this place to work a reasonable way to do so legally. That'll put the coyotes out of business, and it'll make it much harder to smuggle drugs into the US via the southern border.

AMNESTY MAKES AMERICA SAFER because it reduces the incentive for crime along the southern border. Authorities will KNOW who comes into the country and where they are. A guest worker program will make it possible to control smuggling, because the existing resources can be focused on what illicit activity is left along the border.

AMNESTY MAKES AMERICA SAFER because law enforcement can concentrate on fighting the real bad guys when police officers and sheriff's deputies don't have to fill in for the alien chasers from the DHS. I mean, do our law enforcement folks need yet another unfunded, and possibly unconstitutional, mandate? Besides terrorism watch, disaster preparedness, now also immigration enforcement? No, I want them to fight crime and enforce traffic laws.

If you care about the quality of life in America and reducing crime in this country, and if you care just the slightest bit about tradition and the "American Way" then you really have to support amnesty for all immigrants. Because their struggle to make a difference, to take care of their families, and to better themselves is the same struggle that brought all those Irish, German, Russian, Polish and -- uh ... Swiss -- immigrants over here. That struggle is a big part of America, and if you are of European extraction, you better shut up about "those illegals" because chances are, some of your ancestors come over here with nothing but their clothes on their backs in the bowels of a ship. If your ancestors came here as economic refugees, you are in no position to turn around and slam the door on the new arrivals today.

Alberto? He'd NEVER lie to us!

So former Enron lawyer and current torture-supporting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended today the Shrubman's unconstitutional domestic spying activities in front to the Senate Commitee for "the Truth and nothing but the Truth" and did not even have to say "I do." Swear, that is. To tell the truth. The Republican Senators all smiled and said "Aww, C'mon, he's a nice kid. He'll tell the truth. Look at him - does he look like he could tell a fib? Naaahh!!"

So they did not swear in the guy, but he still got a bit of a grilling from some of the Senators. And, of course it's still not Ok for him to lie to Congress. But they should have made him put his hand on the freakin' HoLY BIBLE and SAY IT: I swear!

Yeah, right, Alberto Just-don't-torture-me Gonzales.

The Earth is Flat

Yeah, yeah, yeah we know the tax cuts worked GREAT, Iraq is a DEMOCRACY now, and he would NEVER lie to you! And the earth is flat, of course.

The Threat of an Unchecked Presidency

Wonder why this "eavesdropping thing" is such a big deal? Well, it's illegal. And it's a dengerous precedent, as the Progress Report points out:

... the power grab is not fleeting, but rather sets a precedent that "would lie around like a loaded gun, able to be used indefinitely for any future occupant."
Progress Report December 22, 2005 (quoting Bruce Fein)