August 14, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


COMPLICITY IN SHREDDING THE CONSTITUTION

When members of Congress take the oath of office they swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. I would suggest we have a strong domestic enemy of the Constitution in the form of the Bush administration. Bush himself has referred to the Constitution as " a expletive piece of paper." It's far more than that. It's something that people have fought and died for. It's not a perfect document, but it established the best form of government the human race has yet devised. The terrorist attacks on 9/11 didn't give Bush or anyone the right to disregard the oath of office. This article by Jonathan Alter talks about the recent assault on the Fourth Amendment that, unfortunately, had the complicity of Democrats in Congress. The article is at www.msnbc.msn.com:

I hate to sound melodramatic about it, but while everyone was at the beach or "The Simpsons Movie" on the first weekend in August, the U.S. government shredded the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, the one requiring court-approved "probable cause" before Americans can be searched or spied upon. This is not the feverish imagination of left-wing bloggers and the ACLU. It's the plain truth of where we've come as a country, at the behest of a president who has betrayed his oath to defend the Constitution and with the acquiescence of Democratic congressional leaders who know better. Historians will likely see this episode as a classic case of fear—both physical and political—trumping principle amid the ancient tension between personal freedom and national security.

THE MAJOR MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARD

Those talking heads of the right, the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter types can say almost anything, including advocating the murder of presidents and Supreme Court Justices, and the mainstream media don't have a problem. Stand up for the Constitution or suggest that maybe predatory capitalism is a pretty filthy system and you get called a "left wing extremist." It's interesting that even in letters to the editor right-wing yahoos can throw around the word "socialist" as a pejorative, but I don't recall seeing any letters using the word "fascist" to describe people on the right. This commentary from A. Alexander is at www.progressivedailybeacon.com:

It is perfectly "mainstream" American political discourse for Limbaugh to claim that Democrats are in bed with al-Qaeda or that Hillary Clinton murdered someone that she didn't. When Coulter calls for the assassination of former presidents or infers that, perhaps, John Edwards, married with children, is gay - she is booked on every corporate-owned program in the country. Bill O'Reilly can, one day, be on the phone forcing an intern to describe her favorite method of masturbation and the next day, condemn America for not having enough "Christ in Christmas" and no one points out the lunacy.

Yet, should someone from the "Left" call Limbaugh a liar or rightfully accuse him of fomenting a dangerous nationalistic and very Nazi-like political environment, and the corporate-owned media will immediately brand that person as being, "a left-wing radical."