Just When You Thought You Had Heard It All
Impeachment is beginning to seem lenient.
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10:23 AM
Friday, June 22, 2007
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15 Comments:
I've never really thought of Cheney as part of the Executive branch. More like Puppeteer and Profit Center.
Anyway, I'm suprised he's even still in the US. Wasn't he moving to Dubai?
Nice cutout. Look like a alien spaceship on landing strip?
... Oohh... It's coming towards us!
Shouldn't that say "Breaches of Government"?
If you wanted a great example of why it's important that the Attorney General maintains the confidence of the American people and not just the president, here it is. How many folks out there are comforted by the fact that the Department of Justice is looking into this?
To be fair, I believe Mr. Cheney would actually consider himself and his position to be above and beyond the government.
Impeachment does seem lenient. Instead: Make Cheney explain Holland Cotter's Documenta review to me.
Tyler, I hope I never have to face you for sentencing. You have no mercy.
This guy is nothing short of a fascist, and every time I read about this man it just gets worse.
Impeachment is to good for him. How about being tried in the Hague for war crimes.
I have to add that we are kind of already being run by a quasi-totalitarian government.
When our system does not have the checks and balances it was designed to have working this is what happens.
It seems that Rep. Henry A. Waxman is leaning towards the same conclusion.
Cheney could never do what he has done without the full support of George Bush, Big Business and the 30% of Americans who are racist, homophobic and fundamentalist and are otherwise known as the Republican base.
How many folks out there are comforted by the fact that the Department of Justice is looking into this?
Only Cheney.
Cheney could never do what he has done without the full support of George Bush, Big Business and the 30% of Americans who are racist, homophobic and fundamentalist and are otherwise known as the Republican base.
It's generalizations like your list of adjectives that give the Republican base license to ignore your otherwise valid criticism, you know. Of the base, not all are racist or homophobic. And there's nothing wrong with being fundamentalist. I agree that Cheney gets away with these horrendous stunts (and they're dangerous in more ways than I think even he feels they are [i.e., I'm not convinced he's pure evil...just evil]) because of the complicity
of Bush, Big Business and the base though. They are equally responsible for the damage he's doing to the country.
Neither Bush nor Cheney really scares me. They're arrogant and selfish and extre-e-e-e-e-emely short-sighted, but the tools they're essentially handing the next president are frightening. In the hands of an egomaniaical fascist-leaning person like, oh, I don't know, say Rudy Guiliani, we could see civil rights approach what they were in Germany-occupied Poland within a very short time. Rudy may not even be our biggest threat on that front. Who knows what the power to disappear anyone for any reason might do to any future leader?
I'm beginning to feel impeachment is a moral imperative. Something has to drive home for the sheeple of this country what's being done to their rights.
Cheney, Cheney
Mr. Feign-ie...
- a corny attempt at a two liner. Can't comment much after looking at this for six years...
I wish I shared your optimism about Bush-Cheney, the sense that these guys are bad but it could be much worse. If you haven't already, do read the Hersch piece in the New Yorker about the general who investigated the "abuses" aka torture of prisoners. These bullies are an infection and when they are gone, the infection will remain.
Let's hope the madness doesn't expand into Iran.
BTW - it's a good graphic.
the tools they're essentially handing the next president are frightening. In the hands of an egomaniaical fascist-leaning person like, oh, I don't know, say Rudy Guiliani
Thank you, Edward, for pointing that out. It is worth pointing out that Hillary Clinton also has a track record of extreme self-righteousness, inability to admit mistakes, and a habit of maintaining secrecy regarding her affairs both public and private.
It strikes me as naive in the extreme for anyone to assume that simply because a politician happens to agree with one's views on a particular issue, that this politician may be trusted with power in general. Increasing the power of government, period, increases the chances that megalomaniacs will abuse it in some way, whatever their political philosophy.
And for the record, Anon, my own personal Pater is a Buckley Republican who knows Dick Cheney personally, and loathes him on both personal and ethical grounds. Dick Cheney's evil has nothing to do with his political affiliations, and everything to do with his character.
Impeachment may very well be one of the only ways to possibly reverse the process of systemic governmental corruption and gross overreaching of power that this administration has perpetrated. Too bad we Americans are so lazy about it.
From the comments @ TPM
"Why are all those men being tortured?" asked Alice in horror.
"Enemy combatants," answered Tweedle Dum.
"Who decided they are enemy combatants," asked Alice?
"It was decided in a Mock Trial" answered Tweedle Dee.
"Why not a real trial?" asked Alice.
"Because in a real trial they would have the right to defend themselves, whereas in a Mock Trial they are guilty until they are proven innocent, and therefore have no rights," answered the Mad Hatter.
"Isn't that a bit unfair?" asked Alice.
"Don't be silly," answered the Mad Hatter. "People will say you have been brainwashed."
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