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"exchanging Bush for Cheney does nothing but swap one out of control executive for one that's even worse."
Wrong.
It replaces a 29% approval rating President for a 12% approval rating President, and since Cheney gets what he wants right now, it won't make the governance any worse.
Impeachment is a political indictment, not a criminal one. It would be both morally justified AND politically smart for a Democratic Congressional majority to impeach and remove George Bush Jr. from office.
Perhaps a newly crowned Dick Cheney would arrogantly try for a term of his own.
What Democratic presidential candidate wouldn't be pleased to run that race?
And Harry Ried's verbal gaffes and inadvertant reversals of logic is a demonstration of the decline in the quality of our political leadership over the past 50 years, matching the similar decline in our culture and education.
American democracy: we get what we deserve.
