Near Paul Revere Country, Anti-Bush Cries Get Louder
HOLYOKE, Mass. — To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here is to journey into New England’s impeachment belt. Three of this state’s 10 House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of President Bush. Thirty miles north, residents in four Vermont villages voted earlier this month at annual town meetings to buy more rock salt, approve school budgets, and impeach the president for lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and for sanctioning torture.
There is still a long ways to go, and the odds are long, but the idea of impeaching this sorry excuse for a President is something that is gradually gaining more traction. At least it’s becoming a topic of conversation, which is more than could have been said just a few short months ago. Currently, a small but growing cross-section of the American sheeple are beginning to realize that they have been lied to and propagandized in ways that no elected official, much less a sitting President, should be allowed.
There is one very large obstacle to reaching our goal of impeaching Our Glorious Leader. Republicans control both houses of Congress, which will make getting the Prevaricator in Chief to the well of the Senate difficult, if not borderline impossible. Without significant pressure from the American sheeple, impeaching Our Glorious Leader will likely remain a pipe dream. The fact that the mainstream media is (finally) beginning to cover this growing surge of anger and discontent among the electorate is at least a step in the right direction.
Window cleaner Ira Clemons put down his squeegee in the lobby of a city mall and stroked his goatee as he considered the question: Would you support your congressman’s call to impeach Bush? His smile grew until it looked like a three-quarters moon.
“Why not? The man’s been lying from Jump Street on the war in Iraq,” Clemons said. “Bush says there were weapons of mass destruction, but there wasn’t. Says we had enough soldiers, but we didn’t. Says it’s not a civil war — but it is.” He added: “I was really upset about 9/11 — so don’t lie to me.”
Of course, Clemons is but one person, but he is representative of the fact that people are increasingly willing to recognize that they have been lied to. Whether or not this will lead to a groundswell that will ultimately demand Our Glorious Leader’s impeachment…well, it’s still far too early to be able to tell. Given the heavily and thoroughly propagandized of the American sheeple, the fact that there is finally a chink in the armor is progress. Where it goes from here is still open to question.
It would be a considerable overstatement to say the fledgling impeachment movement threatens to topple a presidency — there are just 33 House co-sponsors of a motion by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to investigate and perhaps impeach Bush, and a large majority of elected Democrats think it is a bad idea. But talk bubbles up in many corners of the nation, and on the Internet, where several Web sites have led the charge, giving liberals an outlet for anger that has been years in the making.
“The value of a powerful idea, like impeachment of the president for criminal acts, is that it has a long shelf life and opens a debate,” said Bill Goodman of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted last month to urge Congress to impeach Bush, as have state Democratic parties, including those of New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin. A Zogby International poll showed that 51 percent of respondents agreed that Bush should be impeached if he lied about Iraq, a far greater percentage than believed President Bill Clinton should be impeached during the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal.
If nothing else, it’s comforting to discover that more people are beginning to recognize an uncomfortable reality. If Bill Clinton can face a impeachment vote for the high crime and misdemeanor of getting a blowjob from a female intern, then lying your way into a war that has thus far killed more than 2300 Americans is at least as serious. Hmm, which is a more egregious crime…getting a blowjob or sending young Americans to their deaths through your lies and propaganda? Perspective is everything, no?
Before any of us get our hopes up, though, let’s remember how far we have yet to go. How many Americans STILL believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9.11 attacks? See what I mean?
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, those of us who persist in demanding accountability are making progress. Whether or not we will succeed in forcing this miserable failure of a President to answer for his crimes in the well of the Senate is still anyone’s guess. The odds are not in our favor, but the simple act of prodding the American sheeple into at least discussing what Our Glorious Leader has accomplished through his lies and propaganda is a step in the right direction.
If a President can be brought before the Senate for a sexual indiscretion and the resulting lies, Our Glorious Leader should have to answer for the young Americans who have died on his watch as a result of his lies. In the end, we may run out of time before he rides of into the sunset, but we can at least work to further the debate and create awareness of what has been done to our democracy over the past five years.
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