Can a president be impeached for sheer stupidity? This really is a question worth pondering. What has always amazed me is the fact that even his most severe critics, Molly Ivins for instance, insist that George W. Bush is a fairly sharp guy. With all due respect, Miss Molly, you're dead wrong. As you once said of another Texas politician: If this stupid bastard's IQ gets any lower we'll probably have to water him twice a day.

This forces me to ask another question: What does the fact that this idiot is sitting in the oval office say about the intelligence of the American electorate? There was a headline in a British newspaper a day or two after the 2004 election that framed the issue perfectly. "How can 58 million people be so stupid"?

How, indeed?

All one has to do is scan the AM radio dial for twenty minutes on any given day to see the level to which we've sunk. It really is disgusting to hear these proud "dittoheads" (I'm serious!) proclaim their loyalty to the twisted ideologies of a Rugh Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity. It's enough to make you want to cry, vomit or laugh. Take your pick.

Ten years from now, once we've all sobered up, we'll look back on photos and videotape of George W. Bush. We'll look back on the grotesque smirk he gives whenever someone asks him a question he doesn't like. We'll look back on that hideous Beavis and Butthead giggle of his. We'll look back on his eighth grade level syntax (Apologies in advance to all eighth graders). We'll look back, with benefit of historical hindsight, on the jaw dropping level of incompetence and stupidity of this administration. We'll look back on all of these things and we'll all be asking the same question: What were we thinking? What the hell were we thinking?

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
tomdegan@frontiernet.net

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If you want more "spoons" visit the One Thousand Reasons web site, which has been documenting the failures of the Bush administration for the last four years.
One Thousand Reasons

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Bush is a Complete Success!!
Destroy AMERICA!
Job 1!
Well Done!!

He is doing exactly what he’s told.
Robbing us BLIND!
For his Corporations!
Family and Friends!
Billionaires-R-Us!

He is crazy like a Fox.
The Good Old Boy Persona
Is just a front.
For a Vicious, Corrupt, Treasonous:
Corbel.

Privatizing America is JOB 1!
Well done!
Cut the Balls off the:
Middle Class!
Done.
Loading the courts!
Rigging the voting system!
Getting away with;
Murder
Torture
War
&
Destruction
All part of the plan.

Everything is:
It is all over here.
Except the crying.

This Gang of Murderous, Lying, Bass-Turds
Have shot a
Giant Hole thru:
The Heart of America.
They run the:
Smoke and Mirror Show.
24 x 7 x 365
Times
Infinity!
Everyone else is just
Crying over spilt milk
&
Playing with matches.

Bush is a dope?
You doubt him?

You doubt his resolve?

While he’s pilling up bodies like:
Cord Wood!

Victims of his:
Vicious
Hypno
Carney
Smoke and Mirrors Show.
He blases new trails of deceit
While you chase his tail.

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If scientists who study global warming are alarmed
and economists everywhere are extremely concerned
and social scientist who recognize policy failure sound danger
and environmentalists seeing irreversible damage caution us
and historians who recognize catastrophic dangers warn us
and politicians DO know how much damage has been done
and world leaders say this administration should be stopped
and people everywhere feel uneasy
Then please tell me,
Why have we not impeached these liars who have stolen America from all of us and threatened the very existence of our planet home?

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This is an excellent idea! It would be an encyclopedic task. Just getting something like that properly organized would require the work of professionals. Even a catalogue of day-by-day foul ups would be overwhelming.

OTR mentioned One Thousand Reasons which looks pretty good. Is there something out there that has the failures and missteps presented in another form? I'm thinking of maybe an alphabetized outline linking first to synopses which then link to more in depth material?

FWIW, 'global warming' would make a sweep and top my lists in the criminal, incompetent, and ignorant categories.

Some people give a fig BTW. Perhaps the most stunning aspect of the current situation has been the right wing's ongoing success in crippling any potential opposition leadership. That may be the key to what's missing: Leadership. Either that or there will be mass unrest -- eventually.

Despair is good. It means the reality check is sinking in.

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Right on the money! Here's a letter to the editor I wrote last week:

To the Editor:

Cooked Iraq intelligence. Bungled the occupation. “We don’t torture.” Still haven’t got bin Laden. Cheney and Halliburton: Hogs at the Trough.

Almost every civilized nation signed Kyoto Protocol. Almost. Connecting Saddam with 9/11, then denying it. Then connecting him again. Generating more terrorists.

Muslims hate us. Example: Nigerian mothers won’t let American Rotarians vaccinate their kids for polio. They’re terrified. Of Rotarians?

Censoring impolitic science. Libby/Plamegate. Weapons of mass destruction: “Gotta be around here somewhere.” Weapons of mass destruction: North Korea and Iran?

Clinton surplus becomes record deficit. This, from a conservative? Trade deficit, too.

Attack on public broadcasting. Running our Army into the ground, then proposing to cut the Reserve. Lack of body/vehicle armor. Tanks? No thanks.

Swiftboating Kerry, slandering McCain. Flying the Air National Guard service record under the radar. Cutting veterans’ benefits. Cutting programs for the poor. Cutting taxes for the rich. Declining real wages.

Democracy for everybody — except for our allies, e.g. Saudi Arabia. China’s got our dollars. Inflating Social Security funding crisis. Proposing Social Security plan that does nothing to address said Social Security funding crisis. Medicare mess, messing with Medicare. Poor people with no health insurance. Poor people who work two or three jobs.

Pssst! Wanna buy a forest? A ranch whose main product is brush. Polarized Congress, polarized nation. “I’m a uniter, not a divider.”

And a 1984 nation: “War is peace.” “Ignorance is strength.”

Mission accomplished.

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I've been concerned about missing spoons since long before Bush came to office; Clinton, Bush, Reagan, et al., all took more than their share of our collective wealth, good citizenship, humanity, and decency. Inevitably, lists such as this one quickly become overwhelming, and despair turns to anger. I realize in those times that not only must I live my own life by taking care of my friends and community, but I must set my goals on what this nation should look like before I die.

Progressives appear to lack any unified strategy for resisting the hedonism and barbarianism of the neoconservatives. Here are some suggestions for a massive response to the repressive executive branch and a complicit Congress.
1. Destroy all your credit cards. No exceptions. Send them back to the issuing megabank in little pieces with a nice note about where they can stick the plastic shards.
2. Boycott all large corporations. No exceptions, unless they've clearly demonstrated good will, both in terms of their investments and their products.
3. Don't file a tax return. If 100 million Americans refused to file, the IRS would be helpless, and so would the government.
4. Pull your investments from the stock market, unless you can verify that every cent you invest goes towards socially responsible companies.
5. Write, telephone, and email Congress incessantly -- about anything and everything.
6. Ditto the mainstream media, but be more specific about local politicians who've wimped out, corporate boycotts, general strikes, etc.
7. Don't vote, except for third-party candidates.
8. Protest, protest, monkeywrench, and protest.

There's a lot more we can do, and complaining and making lists won't get it done. Continually complaining and blathering about what's wrong have ceased feeling like progress or even support for doing right. If we shut this country down for even a week, either we'd get impeachment, or we'd get what Dick Cheney wants, another American revolution. If that's what it takes to give Dickie another shot, let's fill the streets and the shopping malls and take back this country. The public tarring and feathering of Rove's Renegades and the Media Puppets will be well worth the suffering.

Just remember, if you buy gas from Exxon-Mobil, Shell, or Chevron, purchase on credit extended by BankOne, Citicorp, or MBNA, shop at Wal-Mart, Target, Macy's, or Home Depot, and pay your taxes to the U. S. military death machine, then you are one with the enemy.

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Welcome to Bushzarro Land
Where everything is done Backwards.
Where the President Bombs his own People.

Where
Right is Wrong
And
Up is Down

Where
Lies are Truth
And
Fantasy
=s
Reality

Where Trillion Dollar deficits
Are Conservative
And
The Outsourcing of
All jobs:
Good for the economy

Where the Richest Corporations in the world
Get Hand-outs
While
The People Starve

Where the:
Infrastructure is Crumbling
And
Clean Air, Food and Water
Outlawed

Welcome to Americo
Where Bombastic Blowhards are revered
While
Liberals
Are
Roasted
At
The Stake

Where
True
Human
Feelings
Are Outlawed
And
The People:

Governed
by
MACHINES.

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The following commentary is from my blog, Digging Deeper, by Ivan G. Goldman, which can be found at http://ivangoldman.blogspot.com/. So far I've been unsuccessful at getting AlterNet to carry my blog. Please tell them to use their imaginations. Jeez.
DIGGING DEEPER, By Ivan G. Goldman

Monday, February 20, 2006
LOTS OF PEOPLE were disappointed when the Democrats in the Senate voted along with the Republicans last week to kill any attempt at filibustering the Patriot Act. That’s because they don’t really understand what the Democrats were up against.

They were just doing what other prison bitches do every day under similar circumstances. Senate Democrats deserve our compassion, not verbal assaults. After all, when they leave Congress many will try to resume heterosexual practices. Not John Edwards, of course, but many of them. They didn’t ask to be locked in a D.C. cellblock with all those tattooed Republican nasties, and they’re trying to survive as best they can.

Just because the Bush administration cited the Patriot Act as one of its enablers so it can read our mail and send some of us off to live in Syrian cages between torture sessions, that’s no reason to oppose it. There’s some great stuff in that Patriot Act. Some of its passages have made billions for Haliburton.

Incidentally, praise is honestly due to Russ Feingold, Robert Byrd, and Jim Jeffords (Independent), the only senators who had the balls to fight off the Republican prison gangs. They voted to filibuster, kept their assholes shut, and, to paraphrase the angry mortician in The Godfather, they kept their honor.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR belief, the Cheney shooting was actually good for the bush administration. Anything that draws attention away from the way they run the country is good for them. The hotshot D.C. lawyer who took one in the face for the gipper will no doubt be rewarded in one of those secret ceremonies at Bohemian Grove, when the world’s movers and shakers dance naked in the forest and renew their vows.

Listen, I'm no gay-baiter, but when you think about it, there do seem to be a number of gay themes all around the Republican scene, starting with that male prostitute Bush liked to call on in press conferences. Maybe if Clinton had been getting fellated by a male intern instead of Lewinsky, the Republicans in Congress would have been more supportive.

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The articles words state saying:

it's high time we started keeping track of its many failures.

I say the HELL with that and that it's "High Time We Removed This Administration"!

Let's get REAL America, Let's Wakeup America, or are we all to stupid to sit and wait till it's to late.

No one, I mean no one is escaping the effect of this administration.

The rich don't care because they think they have it good, WRONG.

The poor don't care because they don't have time, they're busy trying to survive, WRONG.

The lazy don't care, because they think they are free and I live my life the way I want and do my own thing, WRONG.

All the wrongs listed in here is BECAUSE we all suffer, we all pay the price, we are all not as free as we use to be.
No one has life has it as good as it use to be, no one, rich poor, or otherwise.

All classes of society could be better off, for the rich that only care for their greed, gee guess what you could be richer, for the poor trying to survive, guess what, you could be better off and for the lazy that don't care, guess what your life isn't so care free!

WAKE UP ALL, IT'S THE GOVERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE, IT'S OUR COUNTRY! THE GOVERMENT DOESN'T RULE US, WE RULE OURSELVES.

NO MAN IS ABOVE US, OR THE LAW!

VOTE TO IMPEACH!

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

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I FIRMLY BELIEVE THERE IS NO UNDERESTIMATING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC-ESPECIALLY IN RED STATES. F'IN IDIOTS.

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Success is in the eyes of the beholder. Of course anyone that does not think on the level that the world plutocracy does sees bush as a failure but on the level of the super rich bush is the defining success that has solidified their strangle hold on the world. Everything seen from the prospective of an ordinary person bush looks like a failure but every move he has made makes the rich richer and the poor poorer in that he has accomplished everything he was told to do by the world plutocracy. Make no mistake. When bush was first put fourth as the candidate that would cleave the people from their government and make the government serve the world plutocracy it was only a matter of convincing the 1% of moderates that he had their best interests in mind, and now America is for sell to the highest bidder and once the check is cashed and the money split up bush and his posse will ride off into the sunset. He'll have his but do you think he'll wish us luck in getting ours?

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That was a worthy attempt to catalog Bush's failures and misdemeanors. but there are many more. Killed stem cell research and lied about it, creationism, intelligent design, cutting money for condoms to Africa so weird evangelists can be paid to tell Africans to just say no. scolded us for being addicted to oil while he was cutting funds for alternate energy. claims to support fuel cells but actually opted for program that would extract hydrogen from shale -- to enrich coal and oil giants that own it.

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Precisely. Cheney with 5 deferments sends kids off to war to prove his own manhood. Real heroes are often soft-spoken, gentle men like George McGovern who piloted impossibly dangerous bombing missions over WW II Germany. Sex, politics, and power mingle in terribly unfortunate ways.

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This article is a useful exercise. Interestingly, having seen most of the impeachment/war crime sites and the above article, none yet seem to chronicle fully the catalog of relevant crimes to be drawn up as charges, as they should. It gets overwhelming. Gore Vidal and Al Gore have done it well, perhaps they ought to be enlisted with a couple of constitutional lawyers and we'll have the penultimate list of charges. Mr. Pizzo's list suffers from too tame a tone and a lack of connecting the dots, as indeed they are all interconnected.
Here's my additions to the list:
1. Systemic vote fraud. How can anyone leave that off the list?
2. Torture, detention, illegal wiretapping and every measure done to deprive constitutional liberties
3. Willful refusal on a regular basis to not comply with laws, rules, regulations, treaties, etc.
4. Measures to suppress, intimidate and distort science, scientists, scientific results
5. Unconstitutional bribes/kickbacks to churches in the Faith Based Initiative. Pat Robertson's 700 Club gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers, to name one example.
Ok, I'm already exhausted and this list could go on to hundreds of impeachable items as I sit here and think about it. I think the worst part of it all is the institutional damage, not just in the government, but in our corporations, courts, military, media and civic life, which has been infiltrated by the amoral bunch of Neocons, religious wingnuts, and criminal types that psychopathic W. loves. That's the part that will be a hell of a problem once sick little dubya is ever outa the white house. But for a laugh I say, add the Vice President fragging his friend as one of the charges when we finally have the trials for these crooks.

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First, most of these crimes are not mistakes. Second, the most depressing part of all of this is that the "loyal opposition" refuses to step up and publicly and loudly and broadly condemn this criminal activity and demand impeachment, prosecution and incarceration.

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This is good focus; these mistakes needs to be cumulative in the minds of th epublic. They should be quick and easy to list.

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Fiscal Management= this is the first and worst of Bush's failures.
In the campaign of 00 and in the honeymoon of his Presidency Bush and his supporters said that the federal government was overcharging for its services and that we needed across the board tax cuts.
The deficits, and the deficits are the direct result of GOP misadministration, are the first result of Bush's inability to face reality.

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Bush is a moral coward, he continues to blame the deficit on extrinsic factors rather than the tax cuts. Nixon was the first post World War II President to begin deficit financing, no Republican President following him has balanced the budget not even once.
Dems need to understand this and need to unite all factions of the party into a united front. The Democratic Party's policies will lead to balanced budgets, economic growth and improvement in the living standards and social status of the poor and the working classes.
All Democrats support those policies and practices.
It is time for the dems to cast off the long shadow GW Bush is throwing over our party and stop judging Dems by their relationship to GW Bush and to unite, win the next three election cycles and get this country back on track.

Robert Chapman
Lansing, New York

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This laundry list should be sent off to the DNC to assist them in creating a coherent platform for the upcoming elections. I am as fearful of my future on this planet now as I was during the height of the Cold War's nuclear proliferation.

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The port deal.

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The job of the Commander and Chief is to make sure that the Military, Industrial and Congressional complex (what it was known as originally), functions to keep the elite decision makers of the future of this nation happy. He has done that quite well. In fact, most Americans have become hidiots (hidiously stupid idiots) under the last six presidencies. An overwhelming majority wanted to attack Iraq (85-90%) even though there was more than enough evidence that showed otherwise (truthaboutwar.com et. al.) and now want to bomb Iran. I guess $7 gasoline to bomb another country that is no threat to the US is still a good idea.

In the meantime, the press will not talk about the scam of the NY towers even though it has been on TV and newspapers around the world. We have isolated ourselves into a corner that we will not get out of while our country declines into a state similar to, if not worse than that of Orwell's 1984. We are already living a a brave new world order, just as Huxlely wrote.

Watch http://www.bushflash.com/swf/wtc.swf and have a nice day.

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Stephen Pizzo did not include President Bush’s first and most glaring failure. Bush definitely knew a surprise attack was possible on 9/11, and he was not prepared. How did he know? Every President since Dwight Eisenhower has known that thousands of missiles are aimed at the U.S. from Russia and China. Whether Bush was to blame for 9/11 or not, he wasn't prepared for the words, "America is under attack." That is gross negligence.

Put "The Little Goat" video in that context and it is truly frightening. The President who was aggressively pushing the Strategic Defense Initiative against the threat of missiles attacking our cities never took a few minutes to say "How would I respond to such an attack?" As a result he was woefully unprepared when that very scenario unfolded. He has never acknowledged his failure, and has never indicated any effort to improve his preparedness. For all we know he will repeat the performance.

President Bush’s initial duties on the morning of 9/11 were exactly the same as a missile attack would require, and fell within the same time frame. He had minutes to acquire the information needed to make life and death decisions for thousands of Americans. He had to be ready to make those decisions, possibly with incomplete information. He had to act decisively. He had to assume command and control of the full defensive and offensive power of the United States. He had to provide Presidential authorizations. He had to make himself available. He did nothing.

The President who from the beginning betrayed the faith of the American people continues to pose as our protector.

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The most powerful force on earth is the American People, change can only come from us.

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So long as liberals think of the Republicans as the enemy and the Democrats as friends, the country will sink deeper into the abyss.

The true enemy of the working class majority is the corporate establishment which owns both parties. The battle is between the people and the corporations for control of our government. The ammunition in this war is the votes of the people on one side and the dollars of the corporatocracy on the other.

This war must be fought at the level of party leadership; this is where our votes are traded for the dollars of the establishment.

Once your vote has been cast it's lost its power. Now, before the election, is the time to act. Make both parties choose between the majority's votes or the establishment's dollars.

Join The Lincoln Initiative a non-partisan grassroots movement not an organization. There are no leaders, no contributions, no registration, no meetings, no marches, and no hassle. Join the quiet revolution and help make "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" a reality.

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The Bush-Cheney administration are the true enemies of America. Time and time again with their arrogant smugness they have hidden nothing. It goes beyond just sheer incompetence. This is all about the inner circle of this adminstration writing the rules as they go along. In every area. This is by far the most corrupt adminstration ever. The news about Halliburton and it's subsidiaries raking in million dollar profits is old news already. Over the weekend a Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House. One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.

Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.

The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.

The ties raised more concerns about the decision to give port control to a company owned by a nation linked to the 9/11 hijackers.

This is inconsionable that our government would compromise our national security by allowing a Saudi firm from a region where the very banks held the funding for the 911 attacks. The investigtion was shoddy as we know nothing about the mid-level employees of P&O.

When politicians on both sides of the aisle step up and crticize this then you know that this is wrong.

A brief recap of this adminstration is one complete failure due to a combination of incompetence and corruption. A legacy of economic failure, the ignoring of CIA warnings that we were going to be attacked, the outsourcicng of jobs at an alarming rate, a costly war built on lies and deception, with no end in sight. The blocking of 911 commitiee to investigate our goverrnment with 911. A staggering 8.2 billion dollar national debt. 45 million people with no healthcare. Trying to appoint Harriet Meyers to the Supreme Court to push through his agendas. The trampling of civil rights in our country with illegal wiretapping. Lets not forget Dick Cheney's secret energy meetings. The gutting of social programs. A total ignorance to the environmental problems that face us and a total denial of global warming issues. It must be reminded that during Bush's tenure as governor of Texas, they were the most polluted state in the country. The ever widening gap of social classism in America with his unfair and unbalanced tax cuts that favor his rich energy friends. A failure to handle the crises with Hurricane Katrina when the local government broke down and finally compromising the security of our ports. These guys can't even run a quail hunt without scandel or adhering to state laws.

The list can go on. The time has come for America to wake up and take to the streets and voice its protest at this adminnstration starting with leadership of Democrats and Republicans alike in the House and Senate. AOL polls that show a disapproval rating of 70% will not get this enemy of our nation impeached. A generation ago this would have never happened because people would have publicly demonstrated.

America is in trouble. The time has come to either steer the ship right or sputter into the dark waters of uncertainty.

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I'm as stunned as everyone else who has commented here, but I think I understand why we've all let the Bush administration get away with all this crap, and I admit I'm as guilty as everyone else. It all eerily parallels what happened in the early days of the Nazi regime.

Like Hitler, first Bush promised to restore something he claimed had been lost (fill in your own blank here, "dignity to the White House"; "fiscal responsibility"; etc.) Then, after 9/11, he made himself popular by fighting "our enemy" -- all the while consolidating power for himself and his cronies and seeding fear of dissent as he dismantled civil liberties.

And, unfortunately, just like the Germans before us, we have allowed our own fear to paralyze us until it's nearly too late. I'm not laying any blame here. It's simply part of being human. It may simply be a fear of not being able to provide for our families that distracts us from the larger picture, and I can fault no one for that.

But what is it going to take to bring this evil empire of the Bush administration to its knees? I believe nothing short of a staggering show of solidarity -- not just a Million Man March, but a Ten Million Man March on Washington. Talking about it isn't going to get the job done, small local grass roots efforts aren't going to get it done. Who could possibly ignore ten million angry (but peaceful) Americans crowding into Washington, demanding Bush and his cronies answer for their crimes (and promising to oust any Congressman/Senator who doesn't help bring them to justice)? Why doesn't MoveOn.org or some other organization try to organize a national march like this?

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Is that OK? It's great to get these facts out there. I know a lot of work went into this piece and I definitely gave you credit, Steve.

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Bush administration offenses, gaffes, outrages etc etc etc...

1. Stealing the Florida election, Nov-Dec 2000

2. First week or so in office - Jan 2001
a. Reinstate global gag rule - No US assistance to any international family planning or health organization that ever even mentioned abortion

b. Withdraw Clinton administration rules protecting workers against such occupational hazards as repetetive motion injuries etc etc etc.

c. Cancel Clinton administration rules on allowable limits of arsenic in drinking water from 10 parts per million (?) to 50, despite extensive scientific study in support of 10 rule.

It has all been downhill from there.

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It's obvious to me where we are going:
Bush will be impeached by August and Cheney will be imprisoned.
The economy will shut down from the price of oil skyrocketing,
That will destroy the value of the dollar and millions of Americans will be homeless (do you rent?, hope you have a good car...).
Then the Chinese will move in and buy up (America, land, businesses, etc.),
And our grandchildren will become the working class under them.
Better start now to learn to grow your own food, because while everyone's been distracted by the war, corporations are patenting SEEDS, so no one else can plant them!
Now there's a new kind of famine for you ... most of the food on America's shelves now is engineered cardboard.

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As much as I like being reassured of my right-ness on Mr. Bush (that he is an idiot that has done nothing right since taking office - I knew that before he took office as did most Alternet readers), I am getting pretty tired of reading these exhaustive lists of how many ways in which Bush has screwed up. I want to see some ideas for how we galvanize to remove this mother f%&%r from office! How do we impeach him? How do we organize the left? What are our causes? It's not enough to just constantly rag on Bush we need (as the left) to present an alternative! We need to mobilize to get him out of office! We can't just sit in our "green" designed houses, sipping Starbucks and bitching - we need to get it together and mobilize. Where are the articles on how to do that?

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But seriously, folks, the Arab Emirate owning our ports? I hope you are all doing whatever you can to object to this "selling of America" to the highest bidder, even if they may or may not include Al Queda contacts. What the $^@!?

Call me paranoid, but I am Not looking forward to living under Arab rule.

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Our local radio station, which carries the Red Sox games, is that same station which carries Rush Limbaugh and several other right wing radio personalities. Because of the Red Sox broadcasts, I have that station marked on my car radio, but, once in a while, I turn it on when Rush is on. This morning, NPR was playing a piece which I don't particularly like so I tuned in Rush. I was amazed to hear him say that he is against the ownership of port security by the company from Dubai. He kind of danced around it saying it was really an economic problem and not a security problem. but he was walking a fine line toward saying that the Administration was being stupid in this. Can it be that Bush and his boys have gone so far around the bend that even Rush Limbaugh, defender of the Adminstration and skewer of all that is fair and just, is at the end of his rope and has begun questioning some of the decisions of the current administration. Wow, how bad can you be to get this kind of result.

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They are not mistakes. They are and continue to be deliberate maneuvers to enrich himself, his close friends, and corporations, the real power behind the throne, at the expense of the american people and the very planet on which we depend.

Don't forget: Bush thinks that the righteous (and of course, that includes him!) will survive Armageddon and be carried to heaven in The Rapture, so why bother to care for Earth? (Yep – he really believes that...and this loony's our PRESIDENT?!). In his philosophy, The Annointed Ones have almost a God-given right to take whatever they can from the non-righteous – which is everybody else.

A mistake carries the implication that an attempt was made to do something properly, but that the attempt failed. Bush has made no attempt to do anything that would be proper for the health and welfare of humanity or our planet, and will never admit that any path he has followed (or has been led down) is wrong.

There are no mistakes in the Bush administration; only crimes.

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An easier way of keeping track of the Bush Administration's failures is to count its successes. Zero is a nice round number.

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I'm working on my letters.

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After sitting idle while Ariel Sharon took some laudable and some suspect steps toward fence mending (and wall building), the Bush administration was completely taken aback when Hamas emerged as the peoples’ choice in the recent Palestinian elections. The failure to see this outcome was another example of the dangerous obliviousness of the Bush administration. Its failure to be a “partner for peace” through the course of the past five years has ensured that America’s image as a crusading, anti-Muslim empire is reinforced and is further testimony to the incompetence of this administration.

Read Eric Margolis' excellent summary

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Let's look at the bigger problem: An election system in which unlimited private money is spent to manipulate voters.

Sure, the Bush regime is a disaster, but unless we clean up the system there will be another and another . . .

Congress should mandate that only public money -- relatively small amounts -- can be spent on election campaigns. Broadcasters should be ordered to provide free air time to candidates.

Strong incentives -- such as reducing driver license and auto registration fees by 25 percent for voters --should be provided to get people to the polls.

Lobbying laws should be tightened up prevent payoffs and keep lawmakers from becoming lobbyists for several years.

Griping about Bush isn't enough. We have to get serious about fixing the root problems.

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Tom Degan, are you willing to conduct a little experiment? Find some place you'd like to fly to and a low-cost fare. How about if all us alternet readers chip in to buy your airline ticket? I'm more than willing to contribute, it'll be worth it to be deeper in debt.

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(sorry, I posted something similar to this as a reply to another post but wanted to repost it as a fresh message)

Of all the mistakes listed above, the issue of human rights is the one that makes my blood boil the most.

In addition to the political ramifications which will be felt for decades, the damage being done to America's moral standing around the world is incalculable.

Recently, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was interviewed by the BBC. In the depths of Apartheid, he had always looked to America as a shining example of what his country could be like, but now he is disappointed and saddened by what he sees happening in America. America (and the UK), he says, uses the same arguments as the government of PW Botha to detain prisoners without trial.

With all due respect to people of a Liberal/Progressive stripe, I don't believe that there is any American, who hasn't lived outside of American culture for any length of time, who can truly comprehend the consequences for your so-called moral authority, that ineffable quality which allegedly makes America different from the rest of the world.

If you felt the same moral outrage over this issue as is felt by others around the world, you would die of shame if you didn't go to Washington and protest. "What do we want? Habeas corpus. When do we want it? Now!"

Frankly, I sense a whiff of "not my problem" emanating from Americans. It's like, thank God it's not Americans locked up without trial for four years, tortured, treated like dogs locked in their open-air kennels, driven to try and commit suicide, hundreds of them being force fed to ensure they don't embarrass the President by inconveniently terminating their miserable existences.

Am I right, or is it really the case when it comes to human rights that wiretapping American citizens is actually a more important issue? Apparently Congress can organise hearings at the drop of a hat when American civil liberties are at stake, but 500 or so prisoners (that's the number we know about) of indeterminate legal status.... We'll register a mild protest.

Wake up, Americans: Bush may be trampling on Human Rights but you have failed to stand up and protest. Where are the mass marches, the acts of civil disobedience and acts of solidarity with the prisoners?

As Desmond Tutu said, the rule of law has been "subverted horrendously" and the muted public outcry - particularly in America - is "saddening".

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Then we can quit counting the traitor's mistakes already.

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What about his accomplishments? Let's see: there's uh, well, there's- not a goddamn one!

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"This administration is so incompetent that you can just throw a dart at the front page of your morning paper and whatever story of importance it hits will prove my point..."

Hey, it works!! Something about a White House civil liberties panel that has never actually met, despite an act of Congress passed over a year ago.

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"Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." This goes part way to explain the sheer number of screw ups in the bush administration's tenure. But the stunning breadth and depth of this administration's mishandling of policy has to have other factor(s) at work. Kurt Vonnegut nails this precisely: pathological personalities. Once you give up trying to understand the reasoning (there isn't any) and realize that this administration is only about serving themselves (and their friends/associates), without regard to the rest of humanity and/or future generations, it makes perfect sense.

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We all just need to keep on keepin' on. There's something very strange at work in the universe when such utter stupidity by this administration is continually rewarded by the majority of Americans. Shrub is teflon and we just have to live our lives and not compromise our principles. I wish progressive Democrats would bolt the party and not vote for the cowards the Dumbocrat "leadership" tries to shove down our throats. We all need to find true progressives to vote for regardless of their perceived electability. That's the only way to stay true to yourself and not sell out like we all did for Kerry.

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The old USSR (REDS) was an oligarchic autocracy...a dictatorship. Funny how the RED STATES seem to be behaving the same way. Maybe we should just outlaw the color RED from political usage.

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It's simply not enough to track Bush's foibles, but to hold his administration accountable. It is not far fetched to ask for impeachment hearings. We're proud to put teeth back in the Democratic Party by asking for this. It began with our Be Patriotic Impeach Bush billboard, then call to RI US Congressmen and state legislature to lead. Agreed?

Carl
Sheeler for US Senate
www.carlsheeler.com

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Screw it. I say iffin ya kant beet em, joinem. I'm gonna bulldoze the local park and set up a mortar range in my neighborhood so's good lil warmongers will begin training as soon as they step outta the front door.
Any "collateral" damage i'll be sure to direct towards those vehicles sporting anti bush stickers--how dare those treasonous misfits question our prez in a time of never ending war and fearmongering?
How will YOU do your part to make Amerika an imperialistic, death-delievering cesspool> HUH? Your country needs YOU to kill, pillage, rape and maim--now GET TO IT-or get out, NOW!
(I'm driving a bus to Canada ASAP-call me for ride share info)

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While liberals and progressives salivate over the beatings that the Bush-Cheney Regime is taking these days, they had better keep in mind that a rat is at its most dangerous when cornered.

What better way to deflect Congressional and public attention to mundane matters such as port contracts, civil war in Iraq, mismanagement of Katrina response, etc., etc., etc., than to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against Iran?

Pictures of mushroom clouds will trump all others.

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Your list doesn't include the biggest mistake of all. Even the left gives GWB a pass on 9/11 although by any form of measurement it was the greatest security failure in the history of our country.

Germany, Israel and others were telling us it would happen and nobody took precautions. The warning of the Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug 6th is legendary. Our FBI found people who were suspected terrorists in Minneapolis, Tampa and Phoenix and reported it to their superiors, who sat on the information and were promoted for it. Mohammed Atta and 3 hijackers were identified in October of 1999 by the US Special Operation Command and nobody did anything. This information was given to the 9/11 Commission, was eliminated from the final report and nobody was held accountable. The most expensive Air Force in the history of the world couldn't find 3 jumbo jets that were hundreds of miles off course and not a single person was held accountable.

Our Vice President was in the situation room on the morning of 9/11 addressing what situation? Our President was staring into space, trying to figure out the flight plan for his escape route. A building next to the world trade center that houses 3 or more government agencies that have a direct connection to 9/11 mysteriously drops out of the friggin’ sky and NO ONE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

We spend billions of dollars creating an agency that watches the agencies that supposedly didn't do their job on that day. An agency which has since proven themselves in capable of doing their job. but unless you subscribe to the theory that our government knew you, have to at least chalk it up to the single greatest episode of mismanagement in the history of our country and maybe of the world. The mistakes and incompetence that have been documented are staggering and yet somehow people cast our vile, incompetent President as a hero. So, your list is not complete without 9/11.

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Remember, half the population voted against this guy. It won't take much for things to turn around. The problem is that the Dems will get a chance, and soon, but they won't be ready. I don't see them providing a viable alternative. Bush and Co. are crooks but the Dems are vacuous. A political realignment may be just around the corner. I hear all the time, "I have no one to support. No one represents my true interests. Where are the moderate, pragmatic voices?"

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It appears that we now have the government our forefathers warned us about. I never thought I would be thankful to be near retirement age - they can't really hurt me now. I'm on my way out of the country carrying all that I can!

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The Bush-Cheney dictatorship is now firmly installed. Elections in key regions are now routinely stolen and thus meaningless. Congressional members enable this illegal regime by their complicity as rubber stamps, by being bought and paid for, or by behaving in a cowed, inept manner. All major media outlets have caught the disease of propaganda spread by the state-controlled Faux News. Corporate interests are the foxes in every governmental henhouse, and act only for themselves. Will those in the military stand up against this dictatorship when they're given orders to round people up and imprison Americans for expressing any dissent or attempting to assemble together either in meetings or demonstrations?

Alexis de Tocqueville and countless others warned of such dangers, and the prescient novels of Orwell, Sinclair and others foreshadowed the reality we now see today. More importantly, this regime has taken its playbook directly from the Nazis and other dictatorial regimes. Rove's own playbook on propagamda is but one example.

We live in a media world where we can only get real news on issues of vital importance from journalists and others writing in websites on the Internet, and sometimes, as in the case of Greg Palast, we have to hear it from an American ensconsed in Britain. I thank my stars for the vast quantity of brillliance, dedication and hard work that has gone into such reporting and discussion. But soon, if these fascists have their way, you won't be able to access any real news on the Internet. What will you do then? Have you thought about that?

The litany of flagrant illegalities and brazen excesses that this regime has promulgated, and the constant parade of lies by everyone connected with or controlled, directly or indirectly, by this regime, is stunning. I was stunned in 2000, I was stunned in 2004, and cannot be shocked anymore.

There will be no impeachment of Bush and Cheney. The Republicans, who have now somehow signed onto this new American fascist party, have seen to that. Many citizens of Nazi-controlled European countries who were not targets of Hitler learned to shut up or be killed. Members of Congress have likely similarly concluded that it is better to go along with this regime than be killed in a helicopte, or assassinated politically. Cheney himself is on record for threatening Republican Congress members: "there will be a political price to pay" for not going along with their programs.

The indefensible percentage of citizens who still support this regime have partaken of the koolade and are living in a bubble.

Those Christian fundamentalists who voted for Bush-Cheney thinking they were on the same page do not understand how dictatorships arise. Go back to Hitler and see how he first supported the Christians when he needed their votes, and then turned his back on them and revealed himself for what he was once he assumed full power.

Poor and middle-class Americans who voted for Bush for reasons like, "Oh, he'll reduce my taxes," or "He's anti-gay and I'm anti-gay," etc., are willing to give up the American experiment in democracy for a few dollars or a statewide ban on gay marriage. These are the same people who don't understand what's going on in this country because they don't read. They're sucked in by the vapidity of television's artifices, and are complicit in putting the final nail in democracy's coffin.

Will there be a shift in the control of the House and Senate this year? Of course not. The Republicans who control the voting machines will see to that. Be not surprised, my friends. And keep your seatbelts fastened.

If a legitimate candidate were somehow to assume the Office of the Presidency of this country, which I can't imagine happening, the list of redresses would be virtually endless.

AlterNet Reader

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If you don't want to keep counting spoons this time next year then you need to get from behind your computers and out of your homes and get busy helping to elect Democrats or Progressives to take over the Senate seats that will be up for grabs in the fall.

I wish that we could get rid of WMD (We Meant Democracy) Bush but we will not be able to do it with a Republican (Repugnant) Congress.

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Thurs. Feb. 23, 2006

Civil war is breaking out in Iraq and George W Bush is flying to Indiana for a fundraiser.

After 5 years of on-the-job training (and fatherly advise from Pappa and God), "W" still doesn't understand the requirements of the job.

Let's amend the Constitution to state that Congress can impeach and remove from office any President or Vice President who clearly demonstrates that he/she is "in over their head."

To call "W" an idiot is a gross understatement.

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This author stuns me. Bush isn't making mistakes or goofs. I don't understand how people can be so naive, childishly believing the man is trying to do his best. No, he's not. He is out to destroy this nation. The real threat to this nation is not Osama bin Laden but Bush, who hates America with a passion, wants to see it flushed down the toilet. No one is this incompetent. This is deliberate. He has yet to miss one trick. Get your heads out from under the sand and take a real look at the greatest threat to America ever. Compared to Bush, bin Laden is a penny ante piker.

Vicki

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DIGGING DEEPER
By Ivan G. Goldman
HILLARY – NO POLCY, NO BELIEFS, NO NADA, BUT PEOPLE MAGAZINE LIKES HER
Hillary Clinton pokes her nose out of the tent to bark at something only when she’s found an issue that’s safer than Cheney’s bunker. And she’s found it – yes, the Taliban-tinged United Arab Emirates poised to take over six U.S. ports. Opposing this stupid, crazy deal is no more dangerous politically than coming out against avian flu.

But notice that Hillary, the leading ’08 candidate, has yet to oppose the Iraq war that’s sucking the juices out of this nation as we speak. Because, yes, folks, she’s moved center, and therefore has never, not once, said anything of substance about our quagmire over there, except maybe that it’s been mishandled. As though there’s some good way to handle a policy initiative that kills and cripples people, costs a trillion dollars and is the biggest boost to Iran and Al Qaeda since Rumsfeld took over the Defense Department.

Hillary has never tackled the question of whether this invasion maybe wasn’t such a hot idea after all. If she can't bring herself to oppose this criminal, pointless death pit, the worst foreign-policy mistake in U.S. history, what’s there to like about her? I mean, what’s the attraction?
The answer: people like the fact that she’s a celebrity, a People magazine kind of person -- a Clinton. Americans are more comfortable with dynasties than actually rolling the dice on a real election. That’s why we’ve got Bushes, Clintons, Kennedys, Byahs, etc., running all through our government like mice in the kitchen. It’s America’s dirty little secret – our longing for a monarchy. Come back, King George, all is forgiven. But of course that King George is long gone and it’s tough to root for Liz and Charlie Windsor, who are no more equipped to run a country than Dopey, Sneezy, or Smirky.

So we whip up putative royalty of our own, and Baroness Hillary stands ready to haul us aboard her bandwagon to nowhere. But bear in mind that if she has any core beliefs, she has yet to reveal them. She’s also an unaccomplished legislator and, at least in public, a crashing bore who is a lock loser to whichever Republican dynasty steps up to the plate next.

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An analogy for Neocon tactics:

As part of my basic training I shot a fortyfive Thompson submachine gun. I was warned that it tended to rise and I should start by aiming low so I aimed at the ground in front of me and pulled the trigger. The ripping roar was very impressive but probably the tenth bullet was aimed at a cloud. I would have had more chance of hitting an enemy if I had been shooting a flint lock Kentucky Long Rifle.

The pundits are saying that Democrats have nothing positive to offer and the Republican's claim Democrat thinking is pre 9/11. Hell yes! The only platform Democrats need is a very pre 9/11 Constitution, an ability to read and common sense applied to the problems of today. Their campaign should be to get people to just read the Constitution and use their common sense to compare Republican and Democrat claims and activities with what it actually says.

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I am trying to build up ideas for lifestyle changes on my web site. Please take a look. If you agree with the comments made I invite you to become a participant in the Future in Our Hands Movement.

Mike Thomas
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As I look at the news tonight and see the many, many great things this man does for the world, I think we should all stop what we are doing tomorrow for a few short moments to give thanks to the wonderful republicans all around us that brought us this gifted man.

Be sure to congratulate them on the amazing success in building a democracy in Iraq, or whatever it is they are doing.

Thank you Mr. Bush, The people of Iraq thank you. Beelzebub thanks you, Karl Rove thanks you.

As a once sovereign nation descends into civil war, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits Mr. Bush.

Holy spirit of the world help the good people of Iraq now, and please forgive us for ever making this man president.

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A Test for Democracy; Breach of Public Trust, does Congress serve the Public when Government betrays the Public interest.

1. Globalization and Outsourcing is Legal Oppression of workers and rewards governments that Oppress workers for Corporate Profit. Multination Corp. borderless operation without oversight or national accountability. Corporations are consolidating in all industries globally with the help of our Government. This puts us without a say of our own National assets and Government. Once a Corporation is no longer solely US owned and answerable legally to US Laws; neither are their assets, such our Media, Oil & Gas or anything they control. We must make our Government be held accountable to these actions. The government allows these “corporate citizens” to retain the right to lobby and influence government policy.

2. Corporate Welfare / Tax incentive
The Administrations conspiracy to aid multinational Corporations to profit at the expense of the public welfare through Globalization and Outsourcing tax incentives and economic policy. Misrepresentation of data to hide the failed policies intent. These actions that benefited the corporate recipients at public expense. The American citizen became the victims of the Administrations policies delegating public economic recovery to the corporate “citizen” and failing to acknowledge this failure and make the necessary policy adjustments for the public good. By making changes in law beneficial to the same corporate recipients under the pretense of creating Job Growth and strengthening the economy; vital public needs, through Corporate Welfare that under law places no responsibility on the recipients to provide the expected results theses actions as proposed were intended to benefit.

3. Illegal immigration is "in-house" outsourcing, for Corporate America. The Federal laws designed to address Illegal immigration and the allowed practice of not enforcing these laws have been responsible for creating an exploding social problem as well as a sub-economic labor work force financially benefiting a consolidating industry at taxpayers expense. This serves the corporate interest and is a violation of public security and welfare.

4. The right to own and protect property (land)
Laws passed allowing this not created by Bush's Administration but from his support of Corporate power their influence enabled this law to pass.
This serves the corporate interest and is a violation of public security and welfare.

5. The right to a free uncensored press under the control of the American public through the free market advertisement support influence as the perceived factor of content. Foreign and multinational ownership constitutes a violation of public interest and trust.
Multination Corp control of our Press and media without oversight or national accountability. Allowing and or pursuing policy resulting in compromising this freedom breaks the prime intent of the First Amendment as stated in James Madison’s challenge to the Sedition Act of 1798.

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Like most people writing comments to this article, I also agree that this administration is arguably the most disastrous one in the country's history. However, I would like to take exception to the malicious and cruel invective that many writers have thrown around in describing the moral or intellectual faculties of the man who holds the Presidency. It seems that the possiblity that this individual might be acting out of a paradigm (non-serving to the majority as it is ) in which he truly believes is never seriously considered. The possibility that he might be acting out of what he truly believes to be best can not even be contemplated. The inability of some writers and critics to consder the human being behind the Presidency does much the same damage to hopes for a better world than his actions, if not in quantity than certainly in quality. I urge you all to respond in a mature manner to those with whom you disagree. At present, your attitude and energy have very little to offer the world. Whatever his faults as a leader, George Bush was a pilot, something which does demand a bit of intelligence and intuition, as well as someone who recovered from one of the worst addictions possible. How many writers out there have the moral or mental courage to wean themselves from the similarly destructive addictions of mean words and judgement?

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Ok. I guess knowing your American history and the Constitution of the United States would be a prerequisite for discounting your story by just the headline. President Bush is a Lame Duck in office. He CANNOT be re-elected. It is against the law. Congress got a Constitutional amendment (22nd to be exact) to prevent any President from having more than 2 terms. It is a great thing that he cannot be President. But it seems that all presidents have these lame duck impeachment threats.

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