Do You Get It NOW?
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by Bernard Weiner
As Bush&Co. isolate themselves even further in the White House Bunker with their lies, scandals, coverups and unending wars, they’re becoming even more reckless and dangerous to America and its citizens. That behavior shouldn’t be all that surprising: That’s what happens when vicious animals are cornered.
Domestically, they’re no longer even trying to hide their aversion to democracy and the Constitution. With his new Executive Order on “executive privilege,” for example, Bush openly proclaims that he is untouchable by the rule of law; now there are only two branches of government — the Legislative Branch is ignored as irrelevant — and CheneyBush more or less control them both. More on this issue below.
Abroad, the CheneyBush Administration is preparing in the Fall to escalate the Iraq War yet again, at the same time the propaganda machine is being revved-up in preparation for a coming attack on Iran. Both actions will help jihadi-recruiting and thus put at risk even more U.S. troops abroad and citizens at home. Plus, an attack on Iran will have far-reaching consequences with regard to Russia, China, the availability of oil, the rise of the Euro in international trade and the concomitant fall of the dollar, the impact on the U.S. economy, etc. etc. has Bush&Co. given serious thought to any of these, and other, ramifications?
So, once again, I pose the question to previous Bush voters, to centrists, and independents, and traditionally conservative Republicans: Do you finally get it? Do you understand now why the HardRight CheneyBush Administration has sunk so low in the polls and has little hope of ever getting out, thus taking the Republican Party (and, if you’re an elected official, you) down the drain with them in 2008? Do you understand why, since CheneyBush will not resign, impeachment is the only constitutional way to pry their corrupt, itchy fingers from the levers of power?
Some examples here of why we’re near the impeachment tipping-point, and why more and true conservative Republicans (among them many elite movers and shakers) are abandoning this sinking ship in record numbers and coming to understand that it’s too risky to permit Cheney and Bush to stay in power through January 2009.
Founding Fathers and Impeachment
Though they tried for the longest time to hide it, the Bush Administration is operating on the discredited claim that the President is above the law — nay, IS the law. (Nixon tried the same assertion when he was President — “If the President does it, it is not illegal” — and the Supreme Court shot him down quickly.) Cheney and Alberto Gonzales devised a theory of governance that claims the President can do whatever he wants, violate whatever laws he wants, when he’s acting as “Commander-in-Chief” during “wartime.”
Since the self-proclaimed “war” is an open-ended, permanent “war on terror,” this theory effectively turns the presidency into a 17th-century monarchy. [more]