Wake me when it is over
Even as his approval rating sinks toward single digits, President Bush insists that future historians will have a more positive view. I wouldn’t count on it. One thing that may cloud their thinking is the fiscal as well as emotional hangover of the Bush war in Iraq. Evidence shows that Bush not only misled the country into an unnecessary war but put the enormous cost of the war on a credit card for future generations to pay—which includes those historians who will be evaluating his two disastrous terms in the Oval Office.
On thing sure to puzzle those historians is how in the Congress impeached a President for lying about sex and failed to impeach Bush who violated our Constitution so many times in so many ways that even the Supremes that put him in office are rebuking him.
We should all be grateful that former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich had the guts to put on the record seven years of Bush deceptions and skullduggery and call for his impeachment. In a five-hour floor speech, Dennis let it all hang out. As the Indianapolis Star reported, “you cannot find a more complete and compelling indictment of the Bush administration.”
In all, Kucinich laid out 35 articles of impeachment, ranging from Article III: “Misleading the American people and members of Congress to believe Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, so as to manufacture a false case for war” to Article XVI that gives sordid details of Iraq contracting, how the Bush administration “recklessly wasted public funds on contracts awarded to close associates, including companies guilty of defrauding the government in the past, contracts awarded without competitive bidding, ‘cost-plus’ contracts designed to encourage cost overruns and contracts not requiring satisfactory completion of the work.” Oh yeah—those chosen to oversee the contracts, said Kucinich, were “their business partners.”
Kucinich based his indictment of the Bush record on the government’s own documentation of wrongdoing.
Naturally, neither the Congress nor the news media paid much attention to Kucinich, causing even Fox News to wonder why. Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley says that America’s founders “would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion, of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment.
Leaving that for future historians to mull over, what about this:
I can understand it when the airlines start charging passengers for each pretzel and bag because we know they’re going bankrupt. But when you see gas prices racing toward 5 bucks a gallon, how do you square that with the oil companies making billions in profits? If we didn’t have two oil men in the White House, the thought of “nationalization” of the industry might occur so that the government could ease the pain at the pump and even have a few bucks left over to repair potholes in the Interstates.
On thing sure to puzzle those historians is how in the Congress impeached a President for lying about sex and failed to impeach Bush who violated our Constitution so many times in so many ways that even the Supremes that put him in office are rebuking him.
We should all be grateful that former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich had the guts to put on the record seven years of Bush deceptions and skullduggery and call for his impeachment. In a five-hour floor speech, Dennis let it all hang out. As the Indianapolis Star reported, “you cannot find a more complete and compelling indictment of the Bush administration.”
In all, Kucinich laid out 35 articles of impeachment, ranging from Article III: “Misleading the American people and members of Congress to believe Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, so as to manufacture a false case for war” to Article XVI that gives sordid details of Iraq contracting, how the Bush administration “recklessly wasted public funds on contracts awarded to close associates, including companies guilty of defrauding the government in the past, contracts awarded without competitive bidding, ‘cost-plus’ contracts designed to encourage cost overruns and contracts not requiring satisfactory completion of the work.” Oh yeah—those chosen to oversee the contracts, said Kucinich, were “their business partners.”
Kucinich based his indictment of the Bush record on the government’s own documentation of wrongdoing.
Naturally, neither the Congress nor the news media paid much attention to Kucinich, causing even Fox News to wonder why. Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley says that America’s founders “would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion, of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment.
Leaving that for future historians to mull over, what about this:
I can understand it when the airlines start charging passengers for each pretzel and bag because we know they’re going bankrupt. But when you see gas prices racing toward 5 bucks a gallon, how do you square that with the oil companies making billions in profits? If we didn’t have two oil men in the White House, the thought of “nationalization” of the industry might occur so that the government could ease the pain at the pump and even have a few bucks left over to repair potholes in the Interstates.
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