November 16, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

SAY ONE THING, DO ANOTHER

George W. Bush once described the Constitution as "an expletive deleted piece of paper." But Bush gave a speech yesterday before the ultra right wing Federalist Society extolling the virtues of Constitutional checks and balances. This is the guy who has trampled all over the Constitution and civil liberties sermonizing about the Constitution. Adolf Hitler couldn't have done it better. This article by Robert Parry is at www.consortiumnews.com:


In a Nov. 15 speech to the right-wing Federalist Society, the President embraced the Constitution’s checks and balances as a vital protection against tyranny. And he demanded that federal judges act as fair referees, not political or ideological partisans.

To many Americans who have been aghast at Bush’s six-plus years of trampling the Constitution, such pronouncements might represent a textbook case of “cognitive dissonance,” a psychological term describing the uncomfortable tension when one’s stated principles are at odds with one’s actions.

For Bush, however, this divergence of words from behavior may be closer to the fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes, when the monarch strutted about in invisible garments while his terrified subjects kept quiet about his nakedness.

In this case, the Washington press corps reported on Bush’s speech as if the President were entirely sincere and left out contradictory facts.