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Helping You Get the Most Out of Your Misery
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Saturday, November 11, 2006Now What?
Seeing as how my last minute smear campaign was so very effective and--in all likelihood--won the Democrats control of congress, I thought I'd offer some guidance as to how the party of FDR should proceed now that they've got some political muscle.
I hear a lot of people--people who, like me, have been very angry for about the last five years or so--call for some swift justice. People (including some to whom I'm married) want to see Bush and his pack of asswipes get what's coming to them, and now. Let me say right here and now that I agree with the notion that Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld and the whole Apple Dumpling Gang need to be taken to the woodshed for the way they've lied to us, trampled the Constitution, taken a dump on our international reputation, wasted literally thousands of American lives and profited from it all. I think I may have actually let out with an audible, "All right!" when I heard that a German court was looking to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes. However, we've seen what happens when an opposition congress does nothing with their time/power except go after the president. The fact that the GOP brought impeachment hearings against Bill Clinton for lying about a blowjob makes me sick. And it did something else. It set the bar so low for what people see as impeachable that I'm very worried that we could have a government that goes for impeachment just because they can. There will be time to punish this whole Neo-con sack of cats' assholes after they've left office in 2008. In the meantime, Pelosi and her crew should concentrate on actually getting some shit done. Punishing Bush right now is putting the cart before the horse. What they need to do is stop him. Tear apart his unconstitutional wiretap program. Restore habeas corpus to the people from whom he's taken it. Get our soldiers in Iraq the resources they need and then move forward with a plan to get them the fuck out of there. Do some of the positive things that the country gave you the power to do and then look into shoving a cattle prod up Paul Wolfowitz's ass. All the talk of bipartisanship we've been hearing this week is probably bullshit, and we all know it. But it shouldn't be. The checks and balances system is there so the congress can watch over the president, not so the two parties in congress can keep each other from getting anything done. Until we change things and introduce a viable third party (and fourth and fifth) which will break this monopoly, the two parties we're stuck with need to get their heads out of their asses and actually do some fucking work.
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