Attaining Impeachment May Turn Out to be a Mixed Blessing
It’s difficult to escape the latest trend of Bush-bashing; seeming to surface in magazines, junk mail, bumper stickers, and things of the like, it reached a new level altogether when the Center for Constitutional Rights drafted their “Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush” this past March. There is this sweeping movement to remove George from his office, and its arguments are very compelling. I have read most of the articles (Melville House, the publisher, will pay the postage of you buy a copy and mail it to your congressperson) and rather enjoyed seeing my day-to-day grievances against the executive articulated beautifully by a non-profit org. comprised of distinguished lawyers dedicated to preserving our constitution. It is gratifying, for sure, to see the substance of a despicable man, undeserving of any public authority whatsoever, laid bare before the eyes of whosoever cares to examine, but I wonder if impeachment is truly the wisest avenue of action. This statement may appear a dichotomous, but allow me to elaborate-
Imagine today’s executive branch without the presence of our boy, George. Vice President Cheney, the man who would ascend into Bush’s seat if the latter is uprooted, is no desirable alternative. In fact, I posit it is in our best interest to maintain the status quo lest an effort to improve achieves the precise opposite. Cheney is, as observed by a conscious and ponderous few, **conceivably** the human form of so many deplorable, grotesquely evil, morally sordid elements -ordinarily characterized independently as character attributes or abstract traits one individual may possess- that have, in the case of one Dick Cheney, sprouted arms and legs from a human-sembling torso devoid of a heart. A seemingly cold profile analysis, it stems not from bitter emotion, but from compiling factual data and arriving at this unbiased, non-partisan conclusion: Cheney is a dignified human being only in that his appearance is similar, somewhat, to those others who are not guilty of the most heinous of international high crimes. But correlation is not causation and this… this Cheney is not human in every sense merely because he looks like other people.
Back on subject, why do I believe leaving Bush in office is preferable to disposing of him? I periodically see our president (as he is commonly called) address his people and I easily realize this man has the same capacity for proficiently governing a nation as an infant iguana of marginal intellectual abilities (as far as iguanas go) does once he is crushed under the radials of a tractor-trailer and left in the sun to rot for a few weeks: a very limited capacity, indeed. He’s up there (George, not the iguana) having the time of his life, completely oblivious to the struggles of the families he has wrecked, apathetic to the fragility of the lives his agents unlawfully incarcerate and routinely torture, and speaking incessantly about things existing only in his head and ideals that are effortlessly debunked by any critic with a glimmer of reasoning ability and whose g-factor intelligence measure is above that of the average six-year-old’s. This is not the sort of man we want in the White House, agreed, but now that he is there, we must consider what tenants are next in line before we evict him:
As coldly criminal and ethically reprehensible as Cheney might be, he is irrefutably smart. If his talents for lying and deceiving are surpassed by any man, the GOP hasn’t found him; Cheney is the best in the business. Currently, he is forced by fault of bureaucratic design to operate through Bush to accomplish the republican agenda. Watch Bush closely or review his days as an oil tycoon and you will see he has not recently or in his younger days made a single operation run any more smoothly, quickly, or effectively from his involvement. In fact, he is a prodigy of the ship-sinking arts. Look not on America as this ship, but rather Bush’s party, and you will see he is an ace that America, at this point, can scarcely afford to lose. Let him foil and frustrate Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rove, and whatever other demons of democracy operate behind the scenes for the remainder of his second term and by that time, they will all be politically spent. Toss out Bush now and he’ll become the patsy they so desperately need; his party will focus all the blame on him and pretend as though they were all innocent little Eichmanns that were just ‘following orders’.
And don’t make the naïve assumption that Bush’s successors can be dispatched in the same manner and expediency as he may be. Realize that some of these men, while operating so far outside the bounds of the law and basic human decency, understood they were doing so and took exhaustive measures to ensure they could not be brought to justice. Cheney and Rumsfeld are two examples of men who likely had such realizations, therefore the prospect of bringing them to justice, while they occupy their respective offices, is grim. A crook is aware of his identity and prone to conceal it if he has his senses about him and desires to continue his arts for much longer.
Put simply, I believe this administration needs to be maintained a single entity; we can, upon the proper hour’s arrival, hold individual trials for each of the key players in keeping with (or restoration of, as the case may be) the traditions of American Democracy. But as long as they maintain power of the executive branch, we must respect that to divide them would have a similar catastrophic effect as slicing open a malignant tumor before it is extracted from the patient, the caustic effects are unpredictable but most certainly consequential. The men have this habit of upholding the “no honor among thieves” cliché to a level that is mortifying. Marginal at first, truth became valueless, humanitarian virtues trivialized until fully discarded, these men outright disprove supposed principles of moral universality (reference Chomsky). Bush, though certainly not a respectable exception to the patterns of antisocial behaviors of the presidential cabinet, may be an unwitting presence of damage control through his contribution of semi-debilitating ineptitude. Keep him in there, I say; he certainly isn’t making things any worse than they’d be without him. Let us vigilantly await, therefore, with much tar and feathers, the inauguration of the 2008 Democratic candidate as 44th president before we punish these men for their crimes.
Imagine today’s executive branch without the presence of our boy, George. Vice President Cheney, the man who would ascend into Bush’s seat if the latter is uprooted, is no desirable alternative. In fact, I posit it is in our best interest to maintain the status quo lest an effort to improve achieves the precise opposite. Cheney is, as observed by a conscious and ponderous few, **conceivably** the human form of so many deplorable, grotesquely evil, morally sordid elements -ordinarily characterized independently as character attributes or abstract traits one individual may possess- that have, in the case of one Dick Cheney, sprouted arms and legs from a human-sembling torso devoid of a heart. A seemingly cold profile analysis, it stems not from bitter emotion, but from compiling factual data and arriving at this unbiased, non-partisan conclusion: Cheney is a dignified human being only in that his appearance is similar, somewhat, to those others who are not guilty of the most heinous of international high crimes. But correlation is not causation and this… this Cheney is not human in every sense merely because he looks like other people.
Back on subject, why do I believe leaving Bush in office is preferable to disposing of him? I periodically see our president (as he is commonly called) address his people and I easily realize this man has the same capacity for proficiently governing a nation as an infant iguana of marginal intellectual abilities (as far as iguanas go) does once he is crushed under the radials of a tractor-trailer and left in the sun to rot for a few weeks: a very limited capacity, indeed. He’s up there (George, not the iguana) having the time of his life, completely oblivious to the struggles of the families he has wrecked, apathetic to the fragility of the lives his agents unlawfully incarcerate and routinely torture, and speaking incessantly about things existing only in his head and ideals that are effortlessly debunked by any critic with a glimmer of reasoning ability and whose g-factor intelligence measure is above that of the average six-year-old’s. This is not the sort of man we want in the White House, agreed, but now that he is there, we must consider what tenants are next in line before we evict him:
As coldly criminal and ethically reprehensible as Cheney might be, he is irrefutably smart. If his talents for lying and deceiving are surpassed by any man, the GOP hasn’t found him; Cheney is the best in the business. Currently, he is forced by fault of bureaucratic design to operate through Bush to accomplish the republican agenda. Watch Bush closely or review his days as an oil tycoon and you will see he has not recently or in his younger days made a single operation run any more smoothly, quickly, or effectively from his involvement. In fact, he is a prodigy of the ship-sinking arts. Look not on America as this ship, but rather Bush’s party, and you will see he is an ace that America, at this point, can scarcely afford to lose. Let him foil and frustrate Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rove, and whatever other demons of democracy operate behind the scenes for the remainder of his second term and by that time, they will all be politically spent. Toss out Bush now and he’ll become the patsy they so desperately need; his party will focus all the blame on him and pretend as though they were all innocent little Eichmanns that were just ‘following orders’.
And don’t make the naïve assumption that Bush’s successors can be dispatched in the same manner and expediency as he may be. Realize that some of these men, while operating so far outside the bounds of the law and basic human decency, understood they were doing so and took exhaustive measures to ensure they could not be brought to justice. Cheney and Rumsfeld are two examples of men who likely had such realizations, therefore the prospect of bringing them to justice, while they occupy their respective offices, is grim. A crook is aware of his identity and prone to conceal it if he has his senses about him and desires to continue his arts for much longer.
Put simply, I believe this administration needs to be maintained a single entity; we can, upon the proper hour’s arrival, hold individual trials for each of the key players in keeping with (or restoration of, as the case may be) the traditions of American Democracy. But as long as they maintain power of the executive branch, we must respect that to divide them would have a similar catastrophic effect as slicing open a malignant tumor before it is extracted from the patient, the caustic effects are unpredictable but most certainly consequential. The men have this habit of upholding the “no honor among thieves” cliché to a level that is mortifying. Marginal at first, truth became valueless, humanitarian virtues trivialized until fully discarded, these men outright disprove supposed principles of moral universality (reference Chomsky). Bush, though certainly not a respectable exception to the patterns of antisocial behaviors of the presidential cabinet, may be an unwitting presence of damage control through his contribution of semi-debilitating ineptitude. Keep him in there, I say; he certainly isn’t making things any worse than they’d be without him. Let us vigilantly await, therefore, with much tar and feathers, the inauguration of the 2008 Democratic candidate as 44th president before we punish these men for their crimes.
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