July 26, 2007

IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY


THE AWFUL REPUBLICAN PARTY

Sometimes you can be defined by you do. You can also be defined by what you don't do. The Republican party, as we know, is in favor of destroying the middle class, doesn't care about the environment, has no regard for the Constitution, is racist to its core, homophobic, anti-woman, religiously hypocritical, warmongering, and indifferent to the needs of ordinary Americans. They've shown a side of their party in what they don't do in the failure to support investigating a thug like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. This article by R. J. Eskow is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Impeachment of the entire GOP may sound like a partisan suggestion meant to protect the Democrats. Actually, rebuilding the Republican Party from the ground up may be the only way to save the two-party system (though many of us feel that it's in need of serious overhaul.) Unless the Republican Party is restructured, our only options may be one-party rule or permanent political paralysis.

How does a President with 25% approval ratings continue a war that has 30% approval ratings? How does a deceptive Attorney General keep his job? We've learned lately that some things are surprisingly easy, if people are shameless and utterly cynical -- and if their own party isn't willing to confront them.

Our political system favors the two leading parties. In return, each should show that system its allegiance, and should uphold and obey its laws. If it does not, it should lose its privileged position in our electoral process.

I don't say this out of hostility toward the GOP as it once was. As a Democrat, I was happy to work for the Republican Administration of Bush I as a contractor. I represented the country, and by inference the Administration, in a number of international delegations. I was proud to do so.